Carole Raphaelle Davis is an English-American actress, model, singer, and writer.
Career Acting In 1978, Davis posed for Playboy. In 1980, she posed for Penthouse magazine under the name Tamara Kapitas, becoming Penthouse Pet of the Month in January 1980 and a runner-up for Pet of the Year in 1981.
As an actress, Davis' first feature film was in James Cameron's horror film Piranha II: The Spawning (1982). Later in the 1980s, she appeared in the comedy film The Flamingo Kid (1984). Her best known film role came as Roxie Shield, the vengeful ex-girlfriend in Mannequin (1987), a film that was widely panned by critics but later became a cult classic. She later also appeared in films such as the comedy The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990), the comedy If Looks Could Kill (1991), and The Rapture (1991).
She has made guest appearances on television series such as The A-Team, Star Trek: Voyager, Sex and the City, Angel and more recently in 2 Broke Girls and Madam Secretary.
Music In 1989, Davis' signed with Warner Bros. Records and released her first album Heart of Gold, which was produced by Nile Rodgers. Her single "Serious Money" (a cover of The O'Jays hit "For the Love of Money") was a dance hit and the video was number one and became the original theme song to the hip hop music video show Rap City on BET. The song's success enabled Davis to tour Europe and Asia and perform in clubs throughout the United States.
As a songwriter, Davis signed a publishing deal with MCA. In Europe, she signed on with Sony France. Davis met Prince in the 1980s and the two developed a friendship, culminating in Davis co-writing Prince's single "Slow Love" for his Grammy Award-nominated album Sign o' the Times. She recorded her own version of the song for Warner Bros. Records but subsequently left the label in 1993 and moved to Atlantic Records, where she self-produced and wrote the album I'm No Angel.
Writing Davis has written a series of articles on anti-Semitism in Europe for The Jewish Journal. As a novelist, she is the author of The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife, a non-fiction humour book about Hollywood excess and human status anxiety written from the point of view of a death row dog. Her screenplay "Amnesia of the Heart" was set up at DreamWorks. She has been a contributor for several animal welfare publications including American Dog Magazine, for whom she also worked as an investigative journalist. She had an animal welfare column on Newsvine and ran her own blog Hollywood Dog through Blogspot.
She is the West Coast Director of the Companion Animal Protection Society, a national non-profit organisation that investigates puppy mills and pet stores.
Selected filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes1981C.O.D.Contessa Bazzini1981Piranha II: The SpawningJai1983The First Turn-On!Art TeacherUncredited1984The Flamingo KidJoyce BrodyCredited as Carole R. Davis1987MannequinRoxie Shield1987The Princess AcademySonia1990The Shrimp on the BarbieDominique1991If Looks Could KillAreola Canasta1997InterruptionsSherrie, the sister2010Going the DistanceCarmenCredited as Carole Raphaelle Davis
Television Year Title Role Notes1984The A-TeamKalaniEpisode: "The Island"19963rd Rock from the SunAvianaEpisode: "Lonely Dick"1996Star Trek: VoyagerGiuseppina PentangeliEpisode: "The Swarm"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis1998Sex and the CityAmalita Amalfi Episode: "The Power of Female Sex"2002Live from BaghdadMrs. AwatiffHBO TV Movie; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis2004AngelIlona Costa BianchiEpisode: "The Girl in Question"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis2007Veronica MarsSabirah KrimaniEpisode: "Un-American Graffiti"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis2007ScrubsRosieEpisode: "Their Story"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis20132 Broke GirlsAgnesEpisode: "And Just Plane Magic"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis2016–2017Madam SecretaryFrench Foreign Minister Monique Beauvais Episode: "Snap Back" & "Article 5"; Credited as Carole Raphaelle Davis
References
External links
"The Diary of Jinky, Dog of a Hollywood Wife" published by Andrews McMeel