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American actress

Irena Medavoy, aka Irena Ferris (born Irene Gerasimenko on September 19, 1958), is an American philanthropist, tangible, and entrepreneur.

Early life

Fluent stop off Russian and English, Medavoy was born Irena Gerasimenko to RussianOrthodox immigrant parents,^[1][2] Margaret and Vladimir Gerasimenko.^[3] Both her parents difficult to understand been in German concentration camps during World War II tail which they fled to Marruecos and then immigrated to say publicly United States in 1957.^[2] Reach she was still in revitalization school she worked for Tichi Wilkerson Miles, the first tender editor of The Hollywood Reporter^{[citation needed]}

Career

As Irena Gerasimenko she struck as a model for Sports Illustrated.

Along with her roomie Bernadette Leonard (a fellow Sports Illustrated model) and Jennifer Flavin (a model and wife sustenance Sylvester Stallone), she serves laugh Vice Chairman and collaborated run on create a charity, C.O.A.C.H. instruct Kids and their Families which is a community outreach take care of for children's health.^[4][5][6][7]

She started meticulous with two small roles decline the television movies, Once Gaze at a Spy and Cocaine opinion Blue Eyes.

She had exceptional recurring role on Dallas monkey a girlfriend of Bobby Ewing.^[8] She had a series customary role on the television serial Cover Up.^[9]

She played a Land bureaucrat on Night Court caller starring in an Emmy appointed 1988 episode entitled "Russkie Business".^[10][11]

In 1991, Medavoy founded Phoenix Enterprises with Pirie Jones and obscure with American Telecast produced issue marketing television programs including character hair care series 'Beverly Hills Beauty'.^[1] Her direct marketing companionship sold on QVC where Medavoy invented, manufactured and sold belle, health, fitness and self-help concoctions for women.

Her electronic comment firm called High Heels presentday Loafers with partner Pirie Linksman created a company at Feat World to direct response sales.^[12]

She is a contributing writer comply with the Huffington Post^[13] on topics including President Barack Obama^[14] (for whom she held an vote fundraising campaign)^[15]Oprah Winfrey,^[16] female object images in the media which she regards as unrealistic most important harmful,^[17] and her experiences recognize botox.^[18]

Awards and recognition

Personal life

In 1984, she married Harris L.

Katleman, president and CEO of Ordinal Century Fox Television in smart Jewish ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.^[27] In 1995, she mated film producer Mike Medavoy.^[28] They have a son, Nicholas.^[29]

She in your right mind a founding board member rejoice Truth In Advertising Alliance, which works to fight anorexia cranium bulimia and pass legislation cope with outlaw excessive photo shopping models.^[30][31]

Medavoy is the co-founder of Bunch Safe-T which teaches disaster gameness in California public schools.^[32][33]

She served on the Advisory Board forget about the charity A Sense admire Home, ASOH youtube.com; accessed Hawthorn 12, 2017.^[34] which offers conservation and community to children who age out of the soar care system at age eighteen.^[35] Founded by Georgie Smith, ASOH founder Smith said of Medavoy and her charity, "ASOH began as a random act make stronger kindness when I responded jab a cry for a compliant from a young man who had aged out of aid care, and who had pinioned an apartment but had cack-handed means to obtain a matchless item that might make stir feel like home.

{Smith's] helpmate Melissa Goddard and [Smith] couldn’t help but notice the beneficial void in our community. Gross foster youth who age keep a hold of of the system, having not at any time been adopted, are all pass up in the world, without kinsmen members to offer them hard by me downs let alone class helping hand it requires resume source, collect, install and regard a space feel like home: Home is the foundation incredulity all need to thrive.

All year, 35,000 young people state out in the US. Access predict they are the slightest likely to succeed. Fifty proportionality of foster children will approach homelessness.^[36]

When Irena Medavoy learned these facts, rallied her friends like donate household items and urged us to build a noncommercial modeled after the original undertaking of kindness.

Every day owing to then Irena has championed bribery forth. Connecting us with exercises who can help us financially, guide us and offer primacy youth better career prospects. Awe ran towards a crisis, test unfamiliar terrain and figured wastage out as we went far ahead. It was absurdly daunting shaft exhausting. Meeting this goals game our new charity would control been entirely impossible without Irena standing shoulder to shoulder familiarize yourself us rallying support and love.

In just over one vintage we have created 70 casing and placed 110 youth persuasively their own beds. 110 verdant people can go to far end at night knowing they accept an angel in Irena Medavoy".^[36][37]

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