Josie Maran

About Josie Maran

Josie Maran is an American supermodel and actress who was born on May 8, 1978 in Menlo Park, San Francisco. Her father is of Russian Jewish descent, and her mother has Dutch, French, and German ancestry.

Signed at age 17 with the Elite modeling agency of Los Angeles, Maran appeared on her first cover with Glamour magazine in 1998; she was then the featured Guess? Girl in their summer 1998 and fall 1998 campaigns. In 1999, she landed a multi-year deal with Maybelline. Since then Josie has landed some of the world’s most competitive modeling gigs: the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the Victoria’s Secret catalog, and cover after cover of Glamour, Maxim, Self, and other big-name glossies.

In 2001, Maran appeared in an independent film, as title character Mallory in The Mallory Effect. Maran followed this by appearing as Susan in Swatters in 2002. In 2004, she appeared in three films - as a French model in Little Black Book, as one of Dracula's brides, Marishka, in Van Helsing, and briefly as a cigarette girl in The Aviator. Maran appeared in a short film "The Confession" alongside Wentworth Miller in 2005, and as Kira Hayden in The Gravedancers in 2006.

In June 2007, Maran launched her own natural cosmetics product line, named Josie Maran Cosmetics. These days the porcelain-faced beauty focuses on promoting her eco-makeup brand.