1. Leah Janine Marville was born on 13 November 1985 and is a Barbadian TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Barbados World 2009.
21 Facts About Leah Marville
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Leah Marville was encouraged to participate in the Fashion Face of the Caribbean competition in Jamaica, where she came third.
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Leah Marville was first signed internationally to South African agency Base Model Management and German model agency East West Models.
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Leah Marville is signed to RED model management in New York.
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Leah Marville is a former host on Splash, a Caribbean lifestyle series on Black Entertainment Television sister network Centric.
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Leah Marville went on to study law at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados.
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Leah Marville received her Bachelor of Laws with honours in 2007.
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Leah Marville completed her Legal Education Certificate at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad in August 2012.
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Leah Marville has interned at a prominent entertainment law firm, Gordon-McGrath in Jamaica, and had oversight responsibilities for high-profile clients such as Beenie Man and family members of the late Reggae icon Bob Marley.
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Leah Marville was employed at the Jamaica Human Rights Council, where she was responsible for overseeing the human rights of death row inmates throughout prisons in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Leah Marville started modeling professionally in 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa for Base Model Management.
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Leah Marville has participated in several Caribbean fashion weeks: Barbados Fashion Week, Style Week Jamaica, Saint Kitts fashion weekend, Guyana Fashion week, Dominicana Moda, and Fashion Week Trinidad and Tobago.
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On 24 October 2010, Leah Marville was given the award for Top Caribbean Female model, at the Caribbean fashion awards.
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In 2011, Leah Marville signed on as the face and spokesmodel for the inaugural staging of Caribbean International Fashion Week.
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In 2006, Leah Marville attended the BET Awards where she met with executive producers for the BET J Caribbean music show Wicked Style.
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In 2009, Leah Marville produced her own lifestyle reality show, Passport 246 in partnership with Mykal Cushnie of DSE Media in Jamaica.
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Leah Marville is a freelance journalist for The Daily Nation newspaper, The Barbados Advocate, and the Jamaican Gleaner Company newspaper.
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In June 2009, Leah Marville secured an exclusive interview feature with Larry Nimmer, about his documentary, Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Never Land.
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At the Miss Barbados pageant, Leah Marville won two fast track events: "Most Photogenic" and "Beauty with a Purpose".
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At Miss World 2009, Leah Marville won the "Continental Queen of Beauty" award for being the highest placed Caribbean delegate.
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In 2010, Leah Marville launched Love Campaign School Tour, which delivered the message of healthy lifestyles to children at several secondary schools under the banner "respect yaself".