Back to the 90 s: Patricia Velásquez

Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún is a Venezuelan model. In 1989, she participated in the Miss Venezuela 1989 contest. She represented Peninsula de la Guajira, a center of the Wayuu people, and placed as 2nd runner-up. After three years of engineering studies at college, Velásquez left for Milan, Italy, in pursuit of a modelling career. She is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Italian. From 1995 to 2000, Velásquez studied acting in Los Angeles and New York. She paced down runways in ready-to-wear fashion shows for designers such as Chanel, Chloe, John Galliano, Antonio Berardi, Bella Freud, Corinne Cobson, Claude Montana, Dolce & Gabbana and many others. Velásquez appeared in print ads for Chanel s Allure, Cover Girl, Monsoon, Roberto Verino s Verino fragrance, as well as Victoria s Secret. Velásquez played Anck-Su-Namun in the 1999 film The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns.