Tawny Kitaen Biography
Tawny Kitaen is an American actress and media personality in Southern California.Her height is 5' 7" (1.70 m).She became famous in the 1980s for appearing in several heavy metal music videos for the band Whitesnake, including the hit "Here I Go Again".
Julie Kitaen(Julie Kitaen ) was born in San Diego, California on August 5, 1961 to a Jewish-American father, Terry Kitaen, who was an employee of a neon sign company, and Linda Taylor Kitaen, a housewife and a former beauty pageant queen (runner-up in the Miss San Diego pageant to Raquel Welch). Julie began using the name "Tawny" at the age of twelve, on her own initiative.Kitaen began her acting career in 1983 with a minor role in a television movie, Malibu. In 1984, she starred as the title character of the erotic-adventure movie the Perils of Gwendoline (a.k.a. Gwendoline). She also co-starred in the movie Bachelor Party as the bride-to-be of a young Tom Hanks and was the star of the 1986 horror movie Witchboard.Kitaen consequentially ended up marrying Whitesnake lead singer David Coverdale from 1989–1991. She had recurring parts on multiple television series such as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and co-hosted America's Funniest People from 1992–1994. She was arrested for drug possession in 2006,has been in and out of rehab programs, was part of The Surreal Life cast in 2006, and is one of the patients in Season 2 of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.
In 2002, Kitaen was charged with committing domestic violence against then-husband major league baseball player Chuck Finley.Three days later, Finley filed for divorce.After a plea bargain agreement, Kitaen entered "a spousal battery counseling program and avoid contact with Finley." The couple was married for 5 years and have two daughters, Wynter and Raine. In November 2006, prosecutors charged Kitaen with possessing 15 grams of cocaine in her San Juan Capistrano home in Orange County. They said her two children were home at the time, and Kitaen had given deputies permission for the search.In December 2006, she entered a six-month rehabilitation program in exchange for the dismissal of a felony drug possession charge.