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Veronica Lake

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Veronica Lake Biography

Personal

Died: Saturday 7th of July 1973 (age 50)

Born: Tuesday 14th of November 1922

Years active: 1939-1954 (started around 16 years old; 15 years active)

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Nationality: (American)

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Professions: Actress (former)

Body

Hair color: Blonde

Eye color: Blue

Height: 4'11" (or 149 cm)

Weight: 98 lbs (or 44 kg)

Measurements: 33-32-33

Bra/cup size: B show conversions

Boobs: Real/Natural

About Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage and television actress.

Lake won both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd, during the 1940s. She was also well known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late 1940s however, Lake's career had begun to decline in part due to her struggles with mental illness and alcoholism. She made only one film in the 1950s but appeared in several guest-starring roles on television. She returned to the screen in 1966 with a role in the film Footsteps In the Snow, but the role failed to revitalize her career.

Lake released her memoirs, Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake, in 1970. She used the money she made from the book to finance a low-budget horror film Flesh Feast. It was her final onscreen role. Lake died in July 1973 from hepatitis and acute renal failure at the age of 50.

Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Harry E. Ockelman, was of German-Danish descent, and worked for an oil company aboard a ship. He died in an industrial explosion in Philadelphia in 1932. Lake's mother, Constance Charlotta (née Trimble; 1902–1992), of Irish descent, married Anthony Keane, a newspaper staff artist, also of Irish descent, in 1933, and Lake began using his surname.

The Keanes lived in Saranac Lake, New York where Lake went to St. Bernard's School for a time. She was sent to Villa Maria, an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Montreal, Canada, from which she was expelled. The Keane family later moved to Miami, Florida where Lake attended Miami High School, where she was known for her beauty. She had a troubled childhood and was diagnosed as schizophrenic, according to her mother.