Carol Alt Career Timeline
Year Career Milestone
1979. Carol lands her first job for Italian Harper’s Bazaar.
First airplane Flight!
The flight is to Italy for the Italian Fashion Collections for Italian Bazaar
First ever cover – Italian Bazaar!
First appearance in US Vogue.
First contract as the Worldwide face of Lancôme.
1980. First Harper’s Bazaar cover.
First Cosmopolitan cover sells out.
First of 11 Mademoiselle covers
Life Magazine dubs Carol “The Next Million Dollar Face!”
New face of Louis Feraud Fashions.
Face of Albert Nippon Fashions.
Face of Valentino Ads
1981. Fashion of the Times cover spurs industry to say Carol is the Media Darling!
Carol becomes the first high fashion model to do fashion shows and she wins the CFDA’s “Model of the Year” award.
1982. Carol appears twice this year in Sports Illustrated! For the first time in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and in SI’s Winter Issue!
1983. Carol does TV hosting for Fashion Avenue, the predecessor to MTV’S “House of Fashion”.
Carol gets her First (!) Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover
Cult Film “Portfolio”, shot by Universal Films.
CoverGirl picks Carol as its new face.
1984. 1984 GMA Fashion consultant.
Carol is again in SI in her third of 9 appearances in the Swimsuit Issue
First of 4 best selling posters comes out.
1985. Bob Fosse picks Carol as Ursula in “Sweet Charity”, to run in L.A. and San Francisco.
Carol is on the Tonight Show with Legendary Jonny Carson
Carol shoots her first ever MOVIE, “Via Montenapoleone”
1986. Carol shoots her Second European movie, “My First Forty Years”.
First European movie Via Montenapoleone” debuts- and it is a HIT!
Carol wins her first Telegatto for this movie.
Shoots Virginia Slims campaign.
1987. Carols second movie ‘My First 40 Years” debuts and is a HUGE hit! It also stars Eliot Gould
Cosmopolitan picks Carol to do the first celebrity exercise videos.
Moda Magazine’ picks Carol as the Actress of the Year and presents her with “New Actress” Oscar
1988. Amaretto di Sarrono names their Liquor after Carol and she shoots a series of Ads called: Amaretto di Alt and Amaretto di Carol
First of 5 Carol Alt calendars sell out in September of ’86 for “87.
Wins second of three European Emmy’s in May.
Carol shoots her first American miniseries: “Vendetta” starring Eric Roberts, Eli Wallach and Burt Young.
Carol shoots the film Vice for Life-the Rosanna Benzi Story
1989. GMC Advertising Campaign – “I don’t like boxer shorts”.
Carol wins the Umbra Award for her movie “The Outsiders”, where she played a kidnap victim. Also starring Michael Nouri, Rod Steiger and Philippe Noiret.
Carol Shoots Venetta II with Eli Wallach, Burt Young and Michael Ontkean
1990. “Best” award given by Mont Blanc.
Monte Carlo film festival wants to award Carol’s movie, “A Vice for Life” with the Monte Carlo Film Festivle Award, but Carol cannot make it – thereby forfeiting the award.
SI’s 25th Anniversary issue- Carol’s second cover is one of several covers appearing on the Issue
1991. Hanes contract – “Wait Until We Get Our Hands on You”
Carol’s movie “Vacation 90? produced by Di Laurentis wins the “Golden Box Office Ticket Award” for box office sales.
1992. Carol has her own line of Persol sunglasses named “Carol”.
Carol Shoots 3 more films this year.
1993. Carol releases her first single –it becomes #1 in Germany. Her second single become the sound track for the movie “The Ref”
The movie “Bye-Bye Baby” is Blockbuster’s pick of the week.
1994. First American series, “Thunder in Paradise”, goes #1 worldwide.
1995. Carol Plays Anna Karenina in Anna The Great Fire
Playboy dubs Carol “Most beautiful woman in the world”.
1996. “Supermodels in the Rainforest” – tries to help save the Amazon.
Carol Goes RAW
1997. “Private Parts” – Howard Stern’s movie.
Carol spends a year in Africa writing, producing and directing the children in the limited series called “Under the African sun” –
1998. Carol shoots 2 more movies for American TV.
1999. Carol’s series “Amazon” written by Peter Benchley (“Jaws”) becomes the #1 NEW DRAMATIC SERIES
First “E! Celebrity Profile” special on Carol Alt
Carol’s face launches the new line of Zepter cosmetics-La Dansa.
2000. Carol signs a deal to be first celebrity spokesperson, marketing and development expert for QVC”s “Le Mirador”.
2002. Two new films “Hitters” and “The Look” take the Film Festivals by storm.
2003. First film for the Sci-Fi channel , SnakeHead Terror, becomes a success.
2004. Two more films are released: “Signs of the Cross” and “Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe”.
2005. Carol’s first book, “Eating in the Raw”, is published by Random House/Clarkson Potter and becomes a USA Today’s and Amazon Book’s bestseller.
Carol Shoots another Film for Si-Fi Channel Called “Swarm”
Carol also shoots a movie for LifeTime
2006. Carol becomes the co-host of Jack LaLanne’s new power juicer infomercial.
She does 2 movies in Italy; Katerina e soui due Fili and Piper, while writing her second book on Raw Food nutrition
2007. Carol’s new book, “The Raw 50″, is published.
2008. The first of a new series of books entitled “This Year’s Model” published by Harper Collins. Launch on HSN for Raw Essentials – Carol’s chemistry free result driven skin care line. Launch on Beauty.com and
drugstore.com for Raw Essentials
2009. Carol is out in the 8th week of Dancing with the Stars Italy.
She shoots the sequel to her hit movie “Piper” with “Piper 2”
2010. Duane Reade Launch of Raw Essentials in all 208 stores in NYC
ShopNBC re-launches Raw Essentials.
2011. Woody Allen’s film with Alec Baldwin, Launch of Butterfly Line of Jewelry at Sears, National Launch of Raw Essentials In the shoppers Mart Canada.
Launch of ‘Carol’s Favs’ on OpenSky.com bringing deals on Carol’s recommended products to her fans.
2012. Third book: “Easy Sexy Raw “ is due in Spring; HBO documentary About Face; Easy Sexy Raw published in May; Woody Allen’s film debut in June
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