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Sallie Toussaint Profile |
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Birth Date: May 13, 1974
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Birth Place: Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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Birth Name: Sallie Toussaint
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Biography |
Sallie Toussaint was born on May 10, 1978, in Hartford,
Connecticut, to her Trinidadian parents. Shortly after her
birth, her parents returned the family to Trinidad, but they
moved back to the States when Sallie was in her preteen
years.
She excelled in school and went to the University of
Connecticut on a full scholarship to earn her bachelor’s
degree in journalism. Toussaint modeled to help pay for her
education. She appeared in Essence and Vogue magazines, and
she was also the face of Colgate, Reebok and Bacardi.
Sallie’s modeling career led her to seek and attain the
beauty pageant titles of Miss Connecticut in 1999 and Miss
USA World in 2000.
In 2006, after hundreds of different actresses were screened
for the bit part of one of the girlfriends of mobster Frank
Costello in The Departed, Toussaint finally got the call. “I
went on three auditions with casting agents,” she said, “and
finally got the call in the middle of the night telling me
it was between me and another girl.”
After meeting with none other than Martin Scorsese and Jack
Nicholson themselves, Sallie got the part and a copy of her
scenes at the opera and in a bedroom. “It was just so well
done,” she explains. “It’s absolutely shocking! But you have
to see the movie to know what I’m talking about. Martin
Scorsese is so eloquent and experienced and creative.”
For several years, Sallie and her father have been managing
an orphanage, Jacob House, in Trinidad. They created it when
they saw a need to place unwanted children in loving homes.
Sallie herself supports the organization from money she
earns in the States.
Aside from her charity work and modeling career, Sallie kept
her acting career burgeoning in 2007 when she appeared in an
off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues. |
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