Carol Alt

Carol Alt: Biography in Details

Who is Carol Alt?

Carol Alt is an American model and actress. Likely, Carol Alt is one of the most successful supermodels of all time.

Also, she was first introduced to modeling when she noticed waiting tables in her home town and she decided to model as a summer job.

Carol Alt: Age, Parents, Siblings, Ethnicity

She was born in Flushing, Queens, New York City, the United States on December 1, 1960. Her birth name is Carol Ann Alt, and she is currently 59 years old.

She was born to her parents; Anthony Alt (father) and Muriel Alt (mother). She has three brothers and sisters namely, Christiane Alt, Anthony Ted Alt Jr., and Karen Alt.

Carol holds American citizenship and mixed (German-Irish) ethnicity.

Education

Talking about Carol Alt’s education history, she joined The Wheatley School. Then, she attended Hofstra University.

Carol Alt: Professional Life and Career

Carol Alt was featured on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar magazine but garnered publicity in 1982 when she was featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. During the year 1980s, she appeared on over 500 magazine covers, becoming one of the most famous models of her era, attaining supermodel status.

Alt also graced the covers of Vogue, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, Vogue UK, Mademoiselle, Elle, and Cosmopolitan.

Similarly, Carol Alt was referred to as The Face by Life Magazine. Likewise, she was the face of ad campaigns for Diet Pepsi, General Motors, Cover Girl Cosmetics, Noxzema, Hanes, Givenchy, and numerous others. Eventually, she was the first model to produce her own posters and calendars.

Since the year 1986, she has appeared in a variety of films, many of which were Italian productions. Whereas, she played the character of Kelly LaRue in the TV series “Thunder in Paradise” in 1994. In the year 2004, she had a starring role in Snakehead Terror, a Canadian film.

Carol Alt also played Karen Oldham in the television adaptation of Peter Benchley’s Amazon (1999). In fact, she also had a few minor television roles, including one episode of Wings, and a voice role in an episode of King of the Hill.

She took on a number of model/spokesman projects, including becoming a consultant with the Le Mirador skin-care line and appearing on late-night TV infomercials. Alt has written two books, promoting her own raw food diet plans. She was the cover girl for travel girl magazine (in 2004 and 2008).

Also, Carol Alt appeared on the cover and in a nude pictorial in Playboy’s December 2008 issue. She placed #5 on askmen.com’s list of Top 10 Models of All Time. Moreover, she also starred in the Italian TV series Caterina e le sue figlie 2 and in the TV movie Piper; both were aired on Canale5 in 2007.

Carol Alt: Net Worth, Income

Carol Alt has an estimated net worth of around $25 million and she has accumulated that sum of money from her professional career.

But her salary and other earnings are not available.

Carol Alt: Rumors, Controversy

There was a rumor that Carol dated “SNL” great Joe Piscopo heated up again when he honored her with a Sinatra song at her Friars Club induction.

What are the body measurements of Carol Alt?

Carol Alt has a height of 5 feet 11 inches and she weighs is 58Kg. Additionally, she has a measurement of 34-25-35 inches and her bra size is 34B.

Her hair color is brown and her eye color is blue. Furthermore, her dress size is unknown and her shoe size is 10 (US).

Social Media

Carol Alt has around 109K followers on Facebook and about 113K followers on Instagram. But, she doesn’t have an official page on Twitter.

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