Brooklyn Decker

After being prodded by friends to look into modeling at the age of 16, Brooklyn Decker met with Charlotte-based agency Evolution Models who helped her to land her first gig in 2002 as the face of prom dress designer Mauri Simone. At 18, Brooklyn moved to New York City and signed with Marilyn Model Management, the prestigious agency that also represents Adriana Lima and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. She quickly rose to stardom within the industry, gracing the pages of magazines including Vogue, Elle, GQ, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, PoP Magazine and Teen Vogue.

Brooklyn’s big break came in 2006 when she first appeared in the wildly popular Sports Illustrated “Swimsuit Issue.” Her sophisticated, all-American look earned her a reoccurring spot in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 issues. In 2010, Brooklyn Decker cemented her place in pop culture history by appearing on the cover of the magazine and was consequently named Esquire.com’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” and received the Spike TV Guys Choice “Hotter than Hell Award.”

Earlier this year, Brooklyn starred in her first role in a feature film playing a young school teacher romanced by a plastic surgeon (Adam Sandler). In the comedy “Just Go With It” for Columbia Pictures, Sandler enlists his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. Her performance in the film earned her the Teen Choice Award for “Choice Movie Breakout: Female.”

Brooklyn played the female lead role in Pete Berg’s “Battleship,” released in Spring 2012, for Universal Pictures, opposite Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Liam Neeson and Rihanna. The epic movie follows a group of young Navy sailors who come across a mysterious object during an international exercise. Before they know it, they find themselves under siege by an alien envoy. Against superior technology, size and strength they must unite to fight for their own survival as well as the survival of the planet.

Brooklyn has also appeared in NBC’S comedy sitcom pilot “Lipshitz Saves the World” which led to guest starring roles on NBC’s “Chuck” and ABC’s “Ugly Betty” as well as the USA Network hit “Royal Pains.”

When not working, Brooklyn is an avid sports fan, cheering on her favorite teams, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and the Carolina Panthers. Inspired by her love of sports and her aunt’s personal struggles from being born without a corpus callosum in her brain, Brooklyn became active in the Special Olympics in her hometown of Charlotte in 2004 and is now a global ambassador for Special Olympics.

In April 2009, Brooklyn married professional tennis player Andy Roddick in a private ceremony in Austin. The couple currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and Austin, Texas with their English bulldog, Billie Jean.

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