Carrie White

Carrie White is an American hairdresser, author, and spokesperson. She is known as the "First Lady of Hairdressing," who has styled Jennifer Jones, Betsy Bloomingdale, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Camille Cosby, Ann-Margret, Elvis Presley, Sharon Tate, Brad Pitt, and Sandra Bullock, among others. She collaborated with Richard Avedon on shoots for Vogue, and her work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, InStyle, Allure, Vanity Fair, Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle, and Glamour. She is credited as technical advisor on Shampoo and, in 2011, she published her internationally bestselling autobiography, Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life.

Carrie White was born as Carole Enwright, on Burton Way in Beverly Hills, and was uprooted to Pacoima, CA when she was seven, before moving back to Hollywood, CA at the age of fifteen. At Hollywood High, she studied art with June Hardwood and drama with John Engle and Martin Landau. After graduating high school, she supported herself while pursuing a cosmetology degree by working at Bob's Big Boy and modeling hats downtown in the garment district to trying out for Playboy; she was selected by Playboy as Playmate of the Month in July 1963.

White began her hairdressing career in 1964, in Beverly Hills, working with Billy Grimes, Gene Shacove, and Richard Alcala. James Galanos recommended her to Jennifer Jones. Through this connection, White took over George Masters's clientele, which included Nancy Reagan, Betsy Bloomingdale, Edith Mayer Goetz, and the wives of Hollywood society, including television and film stars. She appeared as herself on television for To Tell the Truth, in 1968. Upon the recommendation of hairdresser Mr. Kenneth, in New York, clients, such as Betty Furness, Babs Paley, Mrs Milton Greene started seeing White; upon the recommendation of hairdresser Alexandre de Paris, Ursula Andress and Capucine went to White, when they were visiting Hollywood. In 1967 photographer Melvin Sokolsky commissioned White to act as hairdresser for Yardley commercials shot in London, with Jean Shrimpton, and India, with Donna Mitchell. This launched White as a hairstylist for film stars, as she did many American beauty product television commercials, from 1967 to 1977. She also did platform shows for Revlon and Clairol, on such stages as Century Plaza Ballroom and the Hollywood Palladium. Film credentials include Model Shop, styling Anouk Aimee, The Goodbye Girl, styling Marsha Mason, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, styling Ellen Burstyn, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, styling Louise Fletcher, Dollars, styling Goldie Hawn, Being There, styling Peter Sellers, Coma, styling Geneviève Bujold; she was technical advisor on Shampoo, working with her clients, actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, and Goldie Hawn, and writer Robert Towne. She has also styled Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Nancy Reagan, Michael Crichton; more recently, she hair colored Brad Pitt, and for seven years styled Sandra Bullock; George Hamilton remains a client from 1970, among many others frequenting her exclusive Beverly Hills salon, which opened in 2005.

She has appeared for Dewey Nicks in GQ, modeling, on separate occasions, with Foo Fighters and Jon Favreau. She has been in a Target commercial and a commercial for Fantastic Sams. For ten years she sold Tova Borgnine haircare products on QVC.

• Scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute
• Friendly House Extraordinary Service Award
• Writer's in Treatment Experience, Strength and Hope Award

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