Birthplace: Downers Grove, IL
DOB: February 17, 1972
Height: 5′8″
Weight: 124 lbs

Elder of 2 daughters born to Irv and Joni Richards. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside, CA when Denise was 15. She began working as a model, and moved to L.A. after she graduated from high school. She landed parts in both TV and movies, and gave breakthrough performances in Wild Things (1998) and World Is Not Enough, The (1999), in which she plays the latest Bond Girl.