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Celeste Thorson Profile |
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Birth Date: July 23, 1984
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Birth Place: Orange County, California, USA
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Birth Name: Celeste Thorson
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Celeste Thorson is an American actress, model, writer, and
activist. She is best known for her role as an athletic host
in her action TV series, Destination X: Hawaii and
Destination X: California. She has appeared in modeling and
commercial campaigns for Body Glove, Reebok, Sprint, Saturn
Nokia, Samsung, Yahoo!, BIOQUE, and Paul Mitchell.
Thorson was born in Orange County, California, the daughter
of a fine artist, and a United States Marine; the two
divorced during Thorson's childhood.
On her mother's side, she is of Lebanese, Mexican and Apache
Mescalero Native American descent. Her father who was born
in South Korea and as a young boy was adopted into the
United States by the Thorson family in Colorado. On her
father's side she is of South Korean and Scottish Irish
descent.
Thorson traveled much of the southwestern United States
during grade school and high school, attending a number of
private Christian and Catholic schools. Her residence
changed often as her family would acquire commercial and
residential real estate stretching from Los Angeles and
Southern California to New Mexico and Texas. After
graduating early from High School, Thorson moved to San
Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico to continue the three
generational family tradition of attending the historic
private art institute, Instituto Allende. From silver
working to sculpture and bronze casting, Thorson studied
with many famous artists and celebrities attending Instituto
Allende.
At the age of 17, Thorson returned to the United States and
moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue political activism.
Despite her father's death in the same year, she found
success and fulfillment in non-profit work. |
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since October 21, 2008