Biography
Lois Hamilton (Areno) personified a new wave of actresses who built
careers on both beauty and brains. Lois attend Temple University in
Philadelphia, Pennslyvannia and the University of Florence in
Florence, Italy where she recieved degrees in Psychology and Fine
Arts. As top Ford model in the late 1970's, Lois graced the
covers/pages of countless magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Fortune,
Mademoiselle, Italian Vogue, Prevue, Neue Revue Illustrierte,
Newsweek, Paris Match, Hello, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal,
Glamour, Time, etc. Some of her ad campaigns included Chanel,
Clarol, Halston, Pucci, Hermes, etc. and she appeared in over 150
commercials worldwide. She was one of the pioneers who made the
successful transition from model to actress. When she came to Los
Angeles, her career immediately took off and she found herself
splashed all over the small and silver screens. Within one year,
she landed more tv stints than any other actress at ICM. She worked
with such luminaries as Ivan Reitman, Neil Simon, Sidney Pollack,
Robert Redford, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, John Candy, John
Laraquette, Dom Delouise, Roger Moore, Bill Murray, Jane Fonda,
Dean Martin, Carl Reiner, David Carradine, Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve
Guttenberg, Howard Koch, Jr., Al Ruddy, Hal Needham to name a few.
She was one of the privileged few to be photographed by George
Hurrell before his death. When Lois wasn't involved in a feature
film or television project, she took to the skies as a licensed
private pilot. She logged over 600 hours and was an accomplished
aerobatic pilot flying her 1936 German WWII Bi-plane. In addition,
Lois was also a titled Italian Baroness with a family who lays
claim to the most noble of ancestries dating to the dominion of
feudal estates in 11th Century Naples. Not one to be typecast as
just another pretty face, and in keeping with her artisic talents,
she was also an accomplished sculptress, painter and writer. She
exhibited her bronze sculptures and oil paintings in many one-woman
shows in Los Angeles. An author as well, she penned her first
novel, "Move Over Tarzan," a woman's guide on how to be as
assertive as the most aggresisive, successful man using a woman's
feminity. Lois Hamilton was definitely a woman ahead of her time.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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