Irene Marie Models was the first international full service modeling and talent agency in Miami Beach, Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

. Driven by the Agency’s forte in developing new and undiscovered talent (such as Niki Taylor

Niki Taylor

Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor is an American model.-Early life:Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School...

 and Amber Smith

Amber Smith

-Early life:The daughter of professional American football player Russ Smith and Carol Smith, Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years...

) the Irene Marie Management Group established and later re-invigorated the modeling scene in Florida.

The agency closed in 2009.

History

Irene Marie Models was founded in 1983 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

 by former international fashion model and fashion columnist Irene Marie

Irene Marie

Irene Marie is a former fashion model, model agency founder and mother of five. After her first marriage, Marie's Greek/Austrian mother remarried a pilot for Pan American Airlines. In 1960 the family relocated to West Berlin, Germany where her stepfather was stationed...

. In 1989 Irene moved to South Beach

South Beach

South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is the area south of Indian Creek and encompasses roughly the southernmost 23 blocks of the main barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.This area was the first...

.

In 2006 Irene Marie along with MTV launched 8th & Ocean

8th & Ocean

8th & Ocean is an American reality series about a group of models living in Miami, Florida that premiered on MTV on March 7, 2006. The series aired for ten episodes, ending its run on May 9, 2006. The creators of 8th & Ocean are also responsible for Laguna Beach, a show also airing on MTV...

, a television series chronicling the lives of models and staff at the Irene Marie Modeling agency.

Models and actors represented by Irene Marie

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor, and former fashion model best known for his roles as Mr. Eko on Lost, Simon Adebisi on Oz and Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Amber Smith
  Amber Smith
  -Early life:The daughter of professional American football player Russ Smith and Carol Smith, Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years...
  
  
• Anna Nicole Smith
  Anna Nicole Smith
  In 1992 Smith was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed as Vickie Smith, wearing a low-cut evening gown. The centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. Smith said she planned to be "the next Marilyn Monroe". Becoming one of Playboys...
  
  
• Andres Velencoso Segura
• Bar Refaeli
  Bar Refaeli
  Bar Refaeli is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modeling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.-Early life:...
  
  
• Beverly Peele
  Beverly Peele
  Beverly Peele is an American model and actress. Peele rose to fame in the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing mostly in Mademoiselle and Elle magazine. She appeared on about a dozen fashion magazine covers.-Career:...
  
  
• Brett Novek
  Brett Novek
  Brett Michael Novek is an American male fashion model and actor. He is a campaign level model for Papi Underwear and appears on their product packaging and sales and promotional material...
  
  
• Carla Bruni
  Carla Bruni
  Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is an Italian-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model...
  
  
• Cindy Taylor
  Cindy Taylor
  Cindy Taylor is a fashion model, actress and television host. Born in Asunción, Paraguay to a Paraguayan mother, her father was a United States citizen, having relocated the family to Clarksburg, West Virginia immediately after Taylor was born...
  
  
• Dan Renzi
• David Fumero
  David Fumero
  David Fumero is a Cuban American actor and former male fashion model. Fumero is best known for his role as Cristian Vega on One Life to Live.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Eva Rorandelli
  Eva Rorandelli
  Eva Rorandelli is a contemporary Italian artist, video producer and model.-Art:Rorandelli studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, Italy before moving to the United States in 1999 after winning a fellowship at the Woodstock School of Art...
  
  
• Galen Gering
  Galen Gering
  Galen Laius Gering is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions...
  
  
• Garcelle Beauvais
  Garcelle Beauvais
  Garcelle Beauvais is a Haitian-American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as hotel employee Francesca "Fancy" Monroe on The WB television sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show which ran from 1996 to 2001, and as Valerie Heywood on the ABC crime drama, NYPD Blue.-Early...
  
  
• Génesis Rodríguez
  Génesis Rodríguez
  Génesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
  
  
• Gilles Marini
  Gilles Marini
  Gilles Marini is a French actor. He is known for having appeared in Sex and the City: The Movie and in the American TV show Brothers & Sisters as Luc Laurent.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Jason Shaw
  Jason Shaw
  Jason M. Shaw American fashion model and actor. His nickname is Jay.He is a top male fashion model, who was the spokesmodel of fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger from 1998–2003.Shaw graduated from the University of Chicago in 1995 with a degree in History, where he was a member of the men's...
  
  
• Jay Howard
  Jay Howard
  Jay Howard is an English professional race car driver who competes in the IZOD IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 and resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. Howard was the 2005 U.S...
  
  
• Joanna Krupa
  Joanna Krupa
  Joanna Krupa is a Polish-American model and actress. Krupa was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has a younger sister, Marta Krupa, also a model. Joanna Krupa moved to India, Delhi, Illinois, with her family at the age of five...
  
  
• Kimora Lee
• Luis Fonsi
  Luis Fonsi
  Luis Alfonso Rodríguez López-Cepero, more commonly known by his stage name Luis Fonsi, is a Latin Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer and composer.- Early life :...
  
  
• Marcus Schenkenberg
  Marcus Schenkenberg
  Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, , is a Swedish model of Dutch and Indonesian descent. He was born in Solna and has dual citizenship of both Sweden and the Netherlands...
  
  
• Matthew Felker
  Matthew Felker
  Matthew Felker is an American writer, producer, actor, and model. He's currently starring and an executive producer on the 2011 Penelope Spheeris directed comedy titled "Balls to the Wall " opposite Mimi Rogers, Christopher McDonald, Joe Hursley, Colleen Camp and Jenna DewanHe works often with...
  
  
• Niki Taylor
  Niki Taylor
  Nicole Renee "Niki" Taylor is an American model.-Early life:Taylor was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Ken and Barbara Taylor, a highway patrol lieutenant and a photographer, respectively. She was raised in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and attended Cooper City High School...
  
  
• Sean Yazbeck
  Sean Yazbeck
  Sean Yazbeck is the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, The Apprentice, where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of Donald Trump's companies...
  
  
• Shalim Ortiz
  Shalim Ortiz
  Shalim Gerardo Ortiz Goyco is a singer/actor. He is the eldest son of Puerto Rican entertainer Elin Ortiz and his wife, the Dominican singer, television presenter, and actress Charytín Goyco.-Television:...
  
  
• Shannon Briggs
  Shannon Briggs
  Shannon "The Cannon" Briggs is an American heavyweight boxer and actor. He is the former Lineal and WBO heavyweight champion.-Early life:...
  
  
• Shauna Sand
• Shemar Moore
  Shemar Moore
  Shemar Franklin Moore is an American actor and former male fashion model. His most notable roles are that of Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless from 1994 to 2005, Derek Morgan on CBS's Criminal Minds, and as the third permanent host of Soul Train from 1999 to 2003.-Early life:Moore was...
  
  
• Shiraz Tal
  Shiraz Tal
  Shiraz Tal is a Israeli fashion model.Tal began her modeling career at age 15 in Paris. She was discovered by the Image Models modeling agency of Israel. She is best known for her work as a model in Armani Exchange advertisements, but she was also featured in the spring/summer 2000 Louis Vuitton...