Angela Kay “Angie” Everhart is an American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She became prominent through magazine and Sports Illustrated swimsuit modeling before appearing in films including Last Action Hero, Jade, Bordello of Blood, Bandido, and Take Me Home Tonight. She has also worked in television and raised a son, Kayden.
Background
Everhart was born on September 7, 1969, in Akron, Ohio, to Bobby Everhart, an engineer, and Ginnie Everhart, a homemaker. She was the fifth of six children and grew up with four older brothers and a younger sister.
She began modeling as a teenager and was working professionally by the late 1980s. Her early fashion career included magazine covers, advertising, and runway work in Europe and the United States. A serious horseback-riding accident at age nineteen injured her back and required extensive rehabilitation before she returned to modeling.
Education
Everhart graduated from Firestone High School in Akron in 1987. The public high school, established in the early twentieth century and named for the Firestone family associated with Akron's tire industry, served students in a city whose economy was strongly connected with manufacturing and rubber production.
No university education is documented. Her professional development instead proceeded through fashion modeling, magazine work, advertising, and later acting and television appearances.
Career
Everhart began her public career as a fashion model during the late 1980s. She worked in fashion markets that included Paris and appeared in publications such as Elle, Glamour, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Details, New Woman, and New Weekly. Her Sports Illustrated swimsuit appearances helped establish her as a nationally recognized model, while her magazine and advertising work connected her with the commercial fashion industry of the period.
She made her film debut in Last Action Hero in 1993 and subsequently appeared in Jade, Mad Dog Time, Bordello of Blood, Another 9-1/2 Weeks, The Gardener, Point Doom, Running Red, and other productions. Her roles frequently placed her in dramatic, thriller, action, and comedy projects, and she also appeared as herself in documentaries and entertainment programs.
Everhart expanded into production, serving as executive producer of Last Cry, executive producer of Bare Witness, and co-producer of The Real Deal. She continued acting in films and television, including Bandido, Cloud 9, Take Me Home Tonight, The Wedding Pact, Twinsanity, Woman on the Edge, and Devil's Knight. Her television work included appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, UC: Undercover, The Mole, Hollywood Squares, The Ex-Wives Club, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Celebrity Wife Swap, and The 411.
In 2013, Everhart underwent surgery after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer and subsequently reported that she was cancer-free. She has also discussed injuries from horseback riding and skydiving, including back surgery after a skydiving accident. These health events became part of her later public work in interviews and entertainment programming.
Achievements
Everhart established a successful fashion-modeling career during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in major magazines, advertising campaigns, runway presentations, and several Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
She transitioned from fashion modeling to screen acting with her film debut in Last Action Hero in 1993 and developed a substantial film and television career across dramas, thrillers, comedies, documentaries, and reality programs.
Everhart extended her screen career into film production, receiving executive-producer credits for Last Cry and Bare Witness and a co-producer credit for The Real Deal.
She publicly discussed recovery from serious injuries and thyroid cancer, including surgery in 2013 and a subsequent report that she was cancer-free.
Everhart is identified with Christianity. Christianity is a diverse monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, with traditions that emphasize faith, moral responsibility, charity, and the dignity of human life.
Her public biography documents the affiliation but does not establish a particular denomination or detailed pattern of religious practice.
Views
Everhart's public reflections after thyroid cancer emphasized the preciousness of life, gratitude, and renewed appreciation for everyday experience. Her statements about parenthood also present caregiving and remaining present for her son as central personal values.
Personality
Everhart has described motherhood as a central responsibility and has spoken publicly about resilience after serious injury and thyroid cancer. Her interviews also document an adventurous interest in activities including skydiving, horseback riding, motorcycles, and other extreme sports before injuries and parenthood led her to stop many of them.
Physical Characteristics:
Everhart is known for her tall stature, long red hair, and modeling work; her height has been reported as 5 feet 10 inches.
Quotes from others about the person
Everhart has said that becoming a mother was the best thing she had done and described her son as the light of her life. After thyroid-cancer surgery in 2013, she publicly expressed relief at being cancer-free and thanked supporters for their encouragement.
Interests
Everhart has participated in skydiving, horseback riding, motorcycling, skiing, snowboarding, white-water rafting, and celebrity golf events. She later stopped many high-risk activities after becoming a mother and after sustaining injuries.
Connections
Everhart is the daughter of Ginnie Everhart and Bobby Everhart. She was married to actor Ashley Hamilton from December 1996 until their divorce in March 1997, and later married entrepreneur Carl Ferro in December 2014; that marriage ended in divorce in 2018.
She has one son, Kayden Bobby Everhart, born on July 24, 2009, with former partner Chad Stansbury. Her public interviews have frequently discussed motherhood and the responsibilities of raising her son.
Father:
Bobby Everhart
Everhart's father was an engineer.
Mother:
Ginnie Everhart
Everhart's mother was a homemaker.
husband:
Ashley Hamilton
They married in December 1996 and divorced in March 1997.
husband:
Carl Ferro
They married in December 2014 and divorced in 2018.
Son:
Kayden Bobby Everhart
He was born on July 24, 2009.
References
IMDb biography of Angie Everhart
Documents Everhart's birth name, birth date and place, modeling and acting career, family relationships, physical characteristics, and health history.
