29 Facts About Celeste Thorson

Celeste Thorson was born on July 23,1984 and is an American actress, model, screenwriter, and activist.

Celeste Thorson was born in Orange County, California, to her mother a fine artist, and father a United States Marine; the two divorced during Celeste Thorson's childhood.

Celeste Thorson's mother is of Lebanese, Spanish, French Huguenot and Apache Mescalero Native American descent.

Celeste Thorson's father was born in South Korea and was adopted as a young child by the Thorson family in Colorado.

Celeste Thorson traveled much of the southwestern United States during grade school and high school, attending a number of private and public schools.

Celeste Thorson's residence changed often as her family would acquire commercial and residential real estate stretching from Los Angeles and Southern California to New Mexico and Texas.

Celeste Thorson studied classical art, silver working, jewelry making, sculpture and bronze casting at the privately owned institute, which was founded in 1950.

At the age of 17, Celeste Thorson returned to the United States and moved to Los Angeles, California, to pursue political activism.

Celeste Thorson has committed her career to raising awareness and support for charitable causes around the world.

At the age of 19, Celeste Thorson was discovered and signed by the Cuttingham Escott Slevin Doughty CESD Talent Agency in Los Angeles as a commercial and actress and model.

Celeste Thorson modeled in global markets such as: Los Angeles, New York City, Milan, Paris, Cannes, Japan, London, the Netherlands, Thailand, and Korea.

Celeste Thorson has been the cover girl for numerous magazines around the world and Billboards spanning the United States, Latin America and Asia.

Celeste Thorson joined the Screen Actors Guild as a professional actress and appeared in commercial ads for clients like Lady Foot Locker, Reebok, Samsung, and Nissan.

Celeste Thorson gave a cameo appearance in the Rolling Stones music video, Rain Fall Down, directed by Jonas Akerlund.

Celeste Thorson was cast as an athletic, action sports star on the adventure TV series Destination X: Hawaii season one and Destination X: California season two.

The first season was filmed on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii where Celeste Thorson hosted and participated in various outdoor sports like sky diving, mountain biking, jet skiing, scuba diving, parasailing, swimming with sharks, and rappelling off mountains.

Season two was shot throughout Southern California, Mexicali, and Nevada where Celeste Thorson did races and did photos shoots with exotic sports cars like the Lotus Elise, Formula One, Bugatti Veyron, Porsche GTI, Bentley and many others.

Celeste Thorson portrayed "Rocker Jill" in the feature film Satin which starred Melissa Joan Hart, Michael Cudlitz, and Robert Guillaume.

Comedically, Celeste Thorson appeared in the "Zoo or False" episode of How I Met Your Mother alongside Emmy winning actor Neil Patrick Harris and actress Collette Wolfe.

Celeste Thorson has written a total of 27 episodes of television, 8 webisodes, and 4 short films.

Celeste Thorson won the Model Star Award for Best Female representing the United States at the Asia Model Festival Awards Award Acceptance in Seoul, Korea.

Celeste Thorson traveled to South Korea to accept the award.

Celeste Thorson was nominated along with three others in her category at the Asia Model Festival Awards sponsored by the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China Bentley Culture Development, Arirang TV China Guang Xi TV, Dong-A TV, ETN TV, and China Central Television CCTV.

Celeste Thorson was nominated for Best Actress at the Tenth Annual PICTURESTART FILM FESTIVAL in New York City.

The Madame, a film written by Celeste Thorson directed by David Lee was screened at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego as an official selection of the La Jolla Fashion Film Festival.

Yogaphiles, the web series written by Celeste Thorson, screened in Atlanta, Georgia as an official selection of the Urban Mediamakers Film Festival.

Celeste Thorson has been an activist for human and environmental rights for over a decade.

Celeste Thorson has promoted environmental protections, human and consumer rights through the efforts of organizations such as: Unicef, UN WomenAmnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Sierra Club, Oceana, Public Interest Research Group, Save The Children, Children International, Nature Conservancy.

Celeste Thorson, notably gave a keynote speech for UN Women SoCal on International Women's Day about gender equality and women's rights, the online video reached a global large audience online.