brinkley played her first role as an actress in the 1983 film "national lampoon's vacation" as "the girl in the red ferrari" opposite chevy chase; she reprised that role in the 1997 sequel "vegas vacation". and later spoofed it in a 2008 directv commercial using with footage from "vacation", and again in a 2015 infiniti commercial as the wife in the infiniti. (the blonde in the convertible for this spoof is model scarlett burke.) in 2011, she appeared as herself in the documentary, "king of the hamptons", which was produced by filmmaker, dennis michael lynch. the film premiered at the 2010 hamptons international film festival.