Annabel Schofield, 1980s model who guest-starred on 'Dallas,' dies of cancer at 62

Annabel Schofield, a exemplary who was a fixture successful 1980s L.A. nightlife and landed a guest-starring relation successful the 11th play of the CBS bid “Dallas,” has died aft a conflict with crab that dispersed to her brain. She was 62.

Schofield died Saturday successful Los Angeles, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which confirmed the quality via exemplary and decorator Catalina Guirado.

“I hatred asking for help,” she wrote successful December connected a GoFundMe run she organized seemingly retired of necessity. “I’ve done it truthful much, but I person nary choice. I person nary different means of support. The tiny magnitude I was near by my dada has gone a agelong clip ago, and immoderate unemployment I was owed was eaten up by the pandemic. I cognize begging for assistance is not sustainable successful the agelong term, but I’m praying this ENT doc volition beryllium capable to region this ample tumor and I’ll yet beryllium capable to get backmost to a mean life, and to commencement moving again.”

The last update was from Jan. 18, aft she had exigency country to region that tumor, and her temper was 1 of momentary relief. Boldface names donating to the origin included composer Hans Zimmer, singer-songwriter Donovan Leitch and histrion Lisa Edelstein.

Born successful Llanelli, Wales, connected Sept. 4, 1963, she was the girl of movie shaper John D. Schofield, whose credits included “As Good arsenic It Gets” and “Jerry Maguire.” Schofield started modeling successful London, a metropolis she aboriginal described to Mirror80 arsenic being connected the cutting borderline of 1980s manner with “the New Romantics, the process extremity of punk, Vivienne Westwood, Katharine Hamnett, Body Map, Buffalo benignant ... and each the resulting thoroughfare styles.”

“[I]n London we ALL dressed up, some boys and girls each the time; particularly for the clubs,” she told the retro-style outlet successful 2012. “I truly miss that sartorial creativity. Now it seems that girls conscionable privation to amusement arsenic overmuch soma arsenic possible.”

She worked with brands including Versace, Yves St. Laurent, Revlon, Avon and Levi’s, according to a biography posted successful transportation with a caller she wrote, and appeared connected much than 60 mag covers and successful much than 120 TV commercials.

Schofield gained planetary designation for a precocious ’80s jeans commercialized that had her speeding done the godforsaken successful a achromatic Ferrari, past screeching to a halt aft spotting a strapping young antheral lasting connected the broadside of the roadworthy successful jeans and a achromatic T-shirt. Rolling down the passenger-side window, she said, “Excuse me. Are those Bugle Boy jeans you’re wearing?” Getting an affirmative answer, she told the man, “Thank you,” past rolled up her model and sped away, leaving him successful the dust.

At the tallness of her modeling career, THR said, Schofield up and moved from London to L.A. She landed that “Dallas” guest-star gig successful 1988. It was lone her 2nd acting credit, aft a 1982 relation successful a movie astir an adventurer who frees an aquatic monster that forces locals to sacrifice virgins. That movie, “Bloodtide,” was enforcement produced by her father.

As Laurel Ellis successful the nighttime drama, Schofield entranced Clayton Farlow, played by Howard Keel. But determination was nary romance betwixt their characters: In 1 episode, Laurel told matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) — who would aboriginal wed Clayton — that Clayton was “almost a begetter figure” to her, and she had simply been trying to amusement him “what a fantastic man” helium was. “Nothing ever happened betwixt us,” Laurel told Miss Ellie.

Off the acceptable of the deed series, “L.A. was having a moment” astatine that time, lawsuit shaper David Rodgers told The Times successful 2006. “Melrose Avenue was cool, Helmut Newton was retired each nighttime with Annabel Schofield, Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts, Sandra Bernhard, Barbara and Timothy Leary and Tina Chow. We saw a antithetic premix then; it wasn’t conscionable astir celebrities. No 1 wore decorator clothes. It was about, ‘Are you chill now?’”

Schofield’s different acting credits included pb roles successful 1996’s “Exit successful Red” with Mickey Rourke and “Midnight Blue” (1997) with Harry Dean Stanton and Dean Stockwell.

After the crook of the millennium, Schofield went down the camera arsenic a shaper for respective projects. She besides worked arsenic her father’s adjunct connected movies helium enforcement produced including “The Brothers Grimm,” “Doom” and “How Do You Know.” The past was written and directed by James L. Brooks and starred Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson.

She formed her ain boutique accumulation company, Bella Bene Productions, successful 2010, and into September 2022 the institution was moving connected abbreviated films, events and manner campaigns, according to Schofield’s posts connected Facebook.

That caller she wrote, by the way, was “The Cherry Alignment,” released successful precocious 2013. The semi-autobiographical communicative “follows the roller-coaster beingness of the witty, uninhibited and gorgeous Angelika Douglas; a legendary ’80’s supermodel, histrion and full-time bon vivant.” Amazon has it filed nether “Erotica,” successful the “Humorous” sub-category.

Schofield’s friends remembered her fondly, leaving tributes connected Instagram implicit the weekend.

“She was beauteous wrong and out: a model, actress, producer, carnal lover, lukewarm and weird successful the champion mode possible,” writer and person Merle Ginsberg wrote Sunday connected societal media. “She volition beryllium truthful missed. But astatine slightest she won’t endure anymore.”

“RIP Annabel Schofield — an aged person and a genuinely gifted, beauteous British histrion and apical exemplary whose vocation successful print, tv and movie took her from the UK to Hollywood,” British TV producer, writer and amusement property Sean Borg wrote Sunday. “You fought truthful hard, Annabel. You had specified a peculiar airy astir you. You volition beryllium missed by truthful many. Fly precocious and remainder successful peace.”