Who is the girl in the video?
Or rather, where can I find a woman like that?
I ask because round 2 is coming.
With literally a single click, you can spread word of my quest to find the long-lost ingénues from the following 1980s music videos to add to this interview series. If successful, your simple effort will make many people happy over many years. Not bad for the push of one button!
- “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield
- “Africa” by Toto
- “Gimme All Your Lovin’” by ZZ Top
- “Tell Her About It” by Billy Joel (multiple women)
- “Along Comes a Woman” by Chicago
- “Shake Me” by Cinderella
- “Should’ve Known Better” by Richard Marx
- “Got My Mind Set on You” by George Harrison
“Jessie’s Girl”
“Africa”
“Tell Her About It”
“Tell Her About It”
“Along Comes a Woman”
“Shake Me” (it is not Amanda Peet!)
“Should’ve Known Better”
For months, all leads have turned to dead ends. Here is who hasn’t remembered/had record of their names:
“Got My Mind Set on You”
For months, all leads have turned to dead ends. Here is who hasn’t remembered/had record of their names:
- the music video directors
- the producers
- the casting agents
- the record companies
- the fans
- the bands
And I am not surprised.
But these girls-now-women are out there.
They are probably not googling themselves because they don’t think anyone would be posting about their brief appearance in a music video 30 years ago. However, their kids may be googling them, and I hope they (you) have not only the curiosity but also the initiative to reach out to me.
Yes, I want to interview your mom. (Or aunt. Or godmother. Or friend’s mom.)
The point is simple: someone knows how to reach each of these memorable ‘80s faces, and everyone reading this is one of my six degrees of separation to reach those people.
Dreaming bigger:
- if we can get anyone with a quarter of a million followers or more to tweet this, we will find at least one of the women
- if we can get anyone with half a million or more, I’m convinced we can find every person on this list in just a day
Reasons to help:
- It takes literally less than 30 seconds.
- It costs nothing.
- It has worked before...to startling effect.
- You will make people smile. They want to hear the stories of the people I’m looking for.
- You will be a crowdresearching pioneer. (The already-common crowdsourcing works, and that’s a lot more labor intensive.)
- You will become part of the story yourself.
If you know any of these women, please let me know no matter how much time has passed since I posted this!
Thank you for contributing to this social media/pop culture/posterity experiment.
62 comments:
You should have known better, Ava Fabian.
Ingrid - thanks, but while I believe she was in at least one other Richard Marx video, she was NOT in "Should've Known Better."
always thought the girl in Should've Known Better was Emily Warfield (the older sister in The Man in the Moon). I can't find any proof out there (isn't listed on her IMDb)… and she looks very different in the movie (darker hair/ no makeup) - but she has a really distinctive profile and body language… and I'd be shocked to find out it isn't her.
Thanks Christie. Investigating!
You could tell me what the name of the girl in the video A-HA "You are the one."? She works as a taxi driver in the video. thanks
Could someone tell us the names of the video vixens in Billy Squire's Video "Don't tell me you love me." The one brunette with the wide face appears to be asian. She looks like a Vogue cosmetics model. Absolutely beautiful.
Thanks,
There's three women and a girl in "Video Killed the Radio Star". I wonder where they are now?
Debi Doss and Linda Jardim did female vocals for the song and video, but I can't find anything on the girl. The woman who spends most of the time in a plastic tube is only described as an aspiring actress friend of Russell Mulcahy, who edited the video.
Since it was the first video shown on MTV, they're the faces that launched the channel that used to be all about music.
brunette in tell her about it is Jeana Tomasino
Could you please find the girl in Billy Ocean's "Get outta my head (into my car)" video? I think she plays a carwash attendant (yes, it was a bizarre concept for a video).
re: Should've Known Better Girl: She's not Ava Fabian or Emily Warfield. Hopefully you get a lead Marc. Many people wonder. Males, mostly. Lol
I have wondered who the girl is too in "Along Comes a Woman". To me she looks very much like Priscilla Barnes, who took over for Suzanne Summers in "Three's Company".
The woman in Along Comes A Woman is Dorothy Mays. I believe she still lives in Glen Burnie Maryland.
Huge thanks Robert!
Robert Larr, would you please email me at mtnobleman@gmail.com? Thank you!
The woman in Africa is Jenny Douglas-McRae. All I had to do was check Wikipedia
Thanks, Sandra, but I was told that info is incorrect.
Who are the two women sitting in the car, in "The Search Is Over" video, by Survivor?
Hi, I have a suggestion for another search... who is the woman at the beginning of the video of the song "What is love" by Howard Jones?
Marc,
Love your blog and appreciate all the hard work you've done! I'd like add to the wish list too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHYtsnSlCg0
Glass Tiger's 'Someday' video with the gorgeous female lead and the two backup singers has always intrigued me.
I really want to know who the actors are in Bon Jovi "Living In Sin" video. Any idea?
The girl in the Cinderella shake me video is Jodie Varble /Russel If I would have know that when I was eighteen I would have been cruising Rochelle IL because I didn't live very far from were she grew up. She has an IMBd profile and I am 75% sure she was also the blond in the Nobodys Fool video also, there's a story to that.
what's the girl's name in Richard Marx's should've known better music video
Who is the girl in the video The Promise by When In Rome
"Got My Mind Set On You" is Julie McCullough,a Playboy centerfold,and actress. She was on "Growing Pains" for a while.
The guy flirting with her is Alexis Denisof of "Buffy" and "Angel"(Wesley Wyndam-Pryce ) fame. He's also married to Alyson Hannigan,also from "Buffy"(Willow)
The girl in the Chicago video Along Comes A Woman is Dorthy Mays. She's also the center fold girl in the July 1979 issue of Playboy. She used to cut hair at a hair salon call Head First in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
The girl in "Got My Mind Set On You" is NOT Julie McCullough. Looks a lot like her though.
Donna Bottman is the girl in Domino Dancing music video by Pet Shop Boys
oh wow. found this site again. Update on Should've known better girl. Wikipedia said it was Daphne Zuniga. After viewing vids of her from movies around the year the song was released. UHhhh. no. Lol. So the mystery continues :(
Should've Known Better
Side by side screen shot to several pinterest photos of Daphne Zuniga bear a remarkable likeness.
No, that is who I thought it was!! And the searching got me here. Lighter hair than when she was on Melrose Beach, but def her!!
Likeness yes, but not Daphne. the girl in the video has a smaller more round face. I think someone once asked Richard Marx who she was but he had no recollection.
2nd request for "Who is the girl in the video The Promise by When In Rome" !!!
Some interesting 80's video women to hunt down...the girl in Boys Don't Cry's "I wanna be a cowboy" and the gymnast in Asia's "Only Time Will Tell".
Got My Mind Set on You, is that Jennifer Aniston before the nose job? It looks so much like her!
may i ask? who is the girl in the music video of 'THE SEARCH IS OVER" by Survivor. Thanks a lot
I believe you. It's got to be Emily Warfield.
So no one has identified the girl in Jessie's Girl?
It's Jessie's girl.
Julie McCullough was such a beautiful woman. She reminds me Alicia Silverstone in the Aerosmith's clips.
The Promise - when in Rome ....Whose the Girl?????
A loira é a Julie McCullough.
The blonde is Julie McCullough
Jodie Varbell Russell is Cinderella in Shake me video.
At least two commenters above said that the woman in the Cinderella "Shake Me" video was Jodi Russell. I asked her and she said she did not do a video for Cinderella, but did do others:
- Air Supply "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" 1983
- Y&T "Contagious" 1987
- Air Supply "It's Never Too Late" 1993
Thanks for contributing. Keep the leads coming!
Could the girl in Richard Marx video "Should Have Known Better" been his ex wife Cynthia Rhodes?
Alguien sabe como se llama la chica del video should've known better por Richard marx gracias
Como se llama la chica del video should've known better de Richard Marx alguien sabe gracias
Maybe somebody could help me I've been looking to see if Kim Anderson and girls school video by Britney Fox is still alive today 2021
As said joe bobb The girl in "Got My Mind Set On You" is NOT Julie McCullough. The girl in the music video is a teenage girl, Julie was 22 in 1987. And if you look a bit more they have definitly not the same nose. So nobody knows who is she, because she's a random girl who not became famous.
5TH request on girl in The promise video from the band When In Rome
I TOO (TWO! HA!) would very much like to know WHO the girl is in the 'When in Rome' - The Promise' video is.
ALSO, while I'm here...Does ANYONE know WHO the girl in the 'White Town' - Your Woman' video is?
NO! I'm NOT taking about the lesser attractive girl in the fur coat, and hat, but instead the much hotter girl in the long black leather coat. For some reason, everyone knows who the 'fur-coat' girl is, but no one seems to know the identity of the 'leather-coat' girl?
THANK YOU FOR READING!!! ; )
To this day I keep trying to find out who the lovely villainous girl is in Asia's Don't Cry Video?
She doesn't seem to come up in any searches I do through Google.
Does anyone have a clue?
Can I also second that request. She is nowhere to be found on the internet!
No She Is not Cynthia Rhodes
Can't be Emily Warfield in Should've known better. She would only have been 15.
Argh! Just lost my comment. I really want to know who the girl in the George Harrison video was. I really don’t believe she is Julie McCullough—their faces are totally different.
The girl in the video has that distinctive Slavic look, so I’m almost positive she is. She looks strikingly similar to a girl I went to school with (who was of Polish descent).
I don’t know if this was true, but I read that that version was the UK version. Could she have been from the UK?
I can’t find anything, but she looks like a young Monica Bellucci to me 🤷♂️
Please find the blonde in the Squeeze video Tempted!
Excuse Me by Danny Spanos (1983), I'd like to know the name of that woman
Nope… Julie was quoted as saying it wasn’t her.
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