Michaela Bercu

Michaela Bercu Biography

Michaela Bercu (born 31 March 1967) is a Romanian-Israeli model and actress.

Early life

Michaela Bercu was born in Tel Aviv as the only child of immigrant parents from Romania. Her father is from Bucharest and her mother is from Timi?oara. Bercu grew up speaking both Romanian and Hungarian. She also has Romanian citizenship.

Career

She started her career as model at age of 13 when her mother took her to the fashion photographer Menachem Oz. She later signed with Elite Model Management. Bercu is married to businessman Ron Zuckerman. The couple have four children.

Bercu appeared on the November 1988 cover of American Vogue wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix T-shirt and a pair of faded jeans; the shot was done outdoors in natural light. It was Anna Wintour's first cover since taking over as the magazine's editor-in-chief, and was seen as signaling a break from the more formal and posed cover images favored by her predecessor, Grace Mirabella. It was also the first time a model on the cover of Vogue was shown wearing jeans. Bercu was also the first Israeli woman to be featured on the cover of American Vogue. She would later appear on the covers of French, Italian, German, and Australian Vogue, American, British, Spanish, German, and Swedish Elle, Mademoiselle, L'Officiel, Madame Figaro, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan. She was also featured in the 1990 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

She has appeared in advertising campaigns for Blumarine, DKNY, Joseph, Andrew Marc, Rochas, Laurl, CP Shades, Lord & Taylor, Bloomingdales, L'Oreal, and Revlon.

Bercu also appeared in the American film Bram Stoker's Dracula as one of Dracula's sensuous brides, co-starring Gary Oldman, Keanu Reeves and Monica Bellucci. She briefly retired from modeling in the 1994 after marrying but returned in 1999 modeling plus sized clothing.

Filmography

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Michaela Bercu

Michaela Bercu Biography

Early life

Career

Filmography

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