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" Kate Upton is one of the planet&amp;#039;s most sought-after models. Yet today Upton attempts to do something far more difficult than simply look alluring in a magazine photo spread or ad campaign: act. In The Other Woman, Upton stars alongside Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann as one of three blondes who discovers that her boyfriend \u2013 Game of Thrones&amp;#039; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau \u2013 has been cheating on her with the other two.Teaming together, Upton, Diaz and Mann seek payback for this betrayal, though the real question will be whether Upton can channel her buxom appeal into an actual performance. It&amp;#039;s a feat that many before her have tried, but few have pulled off with anything resembling success, as the history of sex symbols trying to become actresses is littered with more crash-and-burn failures than triumphs. In honor of Upton&amp;#039;s big-screen debut \u2013 and with respect to the many illustrious leading ladies (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron) who started their careers doing some modeling \u2013 we present a non-comprehensive worst-to-best rundown of supermodels giving it a go as actresses. ESTELLA WARREN Estella Warren&amp;#039;s beauty couldn&amp;#039;t overshadow her beastly performance in Tim Burton&amp;#039;s 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes, in which she appears all too comfortable playing a clueless human. ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY      As the de facto replacement for Megan Fox, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley does little more than look vapidly gorgeous in Michael Bay&amp;#039;s Transformers: Dark of the Moon \u2013 a performance most notable for Huntington-Whiteley&amp;#039;s entrance via ass shot. GISELE BUNDCHEN      Impossibly long legs have helped make Gisele Bundchen this century&amp;#039;s defining supermodel, but her turn in 2004&amp;#039;s Taxi was a movie-career killer, all one-note strutting and affected sexuality. CINDY CRAWFORD      Cindy Crawford&amp;#039;s maiden starring role, in 1995&amp;#039;s Fair Game, was supposed to help launch her as a sultry big-screen actress. Instead, it proved \u2013 aside from her skill at fleeing fireballs in slow-motion \u2013 that she was almost as unfit for cinema stardom as her co-star, Billy Baldwin. KATHY IRELAND      As a short shorts-wearing placekicker in Necessary Roughness, Sports Illustrated icon Kathy Ireland was so stilted, she couldn&amp;#039;t even make football entertaining. CLAUDIA SCHIFFER      The blonde bombshell face of Guess? jeans in the &amp;#039;90s, Claudia Schiffer&amp;#039;s transition to acting was most noteworthy for her featureless, vacant-smile-heavy performance in 2003&amp;#039;s multi-character schmaltzfest Love Actually. PAULINA PORIZKOVA      Tom Selleck does his best to prop up Paulina Porizkova in 1989&amp;#039;s Her Alibi, but there&amp;#039;s no escaping the awkwardness of her every line reading in this dreary romance. TWIGGY      An icon of swinging &amp;#039;60s fashion thanks to her slender build, Twiggy never made much headway as an actress \u2013 but she did famously catch the eye of Dan Aykroyd&amp;#039;s Elwood in 1980&amp;#039;s The Blues Brothers. GRACE JONES      With a look like no other, Grace Jones was more of a personality than an actress, though her performances in both A View to a Kill and Conan the Destroyer take ideal advantage of her wildly unique, ferocious style and attitude. KELLY LEBROCK      Limited range be damned, Kelly LeBrock was perfect as the perfect woman in 1985&amp;#039;s Weird Science, as well as suitably distressed as Steven Segal&amp;#039;s love interest in 1990&amp;#039;s cheesy-awesome Hard to Kill. LAUREN HUTTON      Lauren Hutton&amp;#039;s gap-toothed smile helped put her on the cover of Vogue magazine 28 times during her heyday as one of the &amp;#039;70s defining supermodels \u2013 a stepping stone for what turned out to be a second career as an actress marked by strong performances in 1980&amp;#039;s American Gigolo and 1985&amp;#039;s Once Bitten. TRICIA HELFER      Winner of Ford Models&amp;#039; &amp;quot;Supermodel of the World&amp;quot; contest in 1992, Tricia Helfer made a lasting impression on sci-fi fans \u2013 both because of her striking beauty and not-inconsiderable acting skills \u2013 as the sultry, sinister Number Six on Syfy Network&amp;#039;s Battlestar Galactica. MONICA BELUCCI      Monica Bellucci may be most famous for suffering a horrific rape in 2002&amp;#039;s art-house shocker Irr\u00E9versible. Yet the model-turned-actress&amp;#039; career is a varied and impressive one, replete with erotic turns in both Matrix sequels. ELIZABETH HURLEY      Her first modeling job \u2013 as the face of Est\u00E9e Lauder \u2013 came at age 29, and shortly thereafter, Elizabeth Hurley made a striking splash on the big-screen as well, exhibiting both sexiness and a sharp sense of humor in Mike Myers&amp;#039; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. BROOKE SHIELDS       A model from the age of 11 months old (for Ivory Soap), Brooke Shields was the youngest fashion model to ever grace the cover of Vogue. Beginning with 1978&amp;#039;s controversy-courting Louis Malle film Pretty Baby, in which she starred as a child prostitute, Shields has also shown herself to be a deft actress, equally comfortable handling drama and comedy. ANDIE MacDOWELL      After modeling for Vogue and in campaigns for (among others) Yves Saint Laurent and Anne Klein, Andie MacDowell made her debut in 1984&amp;#039;s Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. Thirty years later, she remains a charismatic star with many well-loved films (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Short Cuts, Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral) to her name. CYBILL SHEPARD      Modeling led to a renowned acting career for Cybill Shepherd, who proved an unforgettable screen presence in 1971&amp;#039;s The Last Picture Show, opposite Robert De Niro in 1976&amp;#039;s Taxi Driver, and sparring with Bruce Willis on TV&amp;#039;s Moonlighting. REBECCA ROMIJN      After celebrated modeling work for Sports Illustrated and Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret among others, Rebecca Romijn made herself into a vision of mutant eroticism as the shape-shifting Mystique in X-Men. Nonetheless, it&amp;#039;s her under-heralded, amazing performance in Brian De Palma&amp;#039;s 2002 thriller Femme Fatale that remains her crowning big-screen achievement. MILLA JOVOVICH      Milla Jovovich first rose to prominence as a teen model, though it wasn&amp;#039;t long until she was transforming herself into an icon of badass genre cinema thanks to 1997&amp;#039;s The Fifth Element and her starring turn as a sexy, superpowered zombie killer in the Resident Evil franchise \u2013 the latter of which stands as the most electric example yet of a supermodel confirming that she&amp;#039;s more than just a pretty face. Where on this list will Kate Upton fall? We&amp;#039;ll soon see. Based on these clips from The Other Woman&amp;#039;s trailer, it looks like she&amp;#039;s off to a great start:    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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