Noémie Lenoir
Sexy

With her slow, slinky moves, mile-long limbs, and exotic, feline eyes, French pastry Noémie Lenoir puts the “cat” in “catwalker.” While still in her teens, the 5’10”, Versailles-born beauty was discovered by an agent with Ford Models, and a career was born. Working between Europe and New York, she appeared in print ads for L’Oréal, and Gap, and modeled for the likes of Victoria’s Secret (she was on US TV screens with their famous runway special in 2007 and 2008), Balmain France, and Tommy Hilfiger. She appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan France, Vogue Paris, Elle France, and Esquire Magazine. Noémie also landed the cover of the French edition of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuite issue in 2000, and did inside pictorials for the US edition in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006—sometimes wearing a bikini, sometimes wearing nothing and just holding on to the swimwear with a toe. She began acting in 2002 with a small part in the French film Asterix and Obelix Meet Cleopatra, and appeared in Brett Ratner’s After the Sunset (2004) with Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, and Woody Harrelson. She evidently made enough of an impression that Ratner had her back for his action-packed franchise flick Rush Hour 3 (2007), starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, where Noémie served up the sexy in several scintillating scenes by appearing in flesh-nuzzling lingerie. In 2009, she turned up in the music video for Usher’s song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home),” then did another franchise film, The Transporter Refueled (2015) (but without Jason Statham). Now, about that toe-hanging swimsuit…