Tali Lennox Fruchtmann (born 9 February 1993), known professionally as Tali Lennox, is a British model, artist, and actress, who used to work for Topshop and Burberry. As of 2014 she reduced her modelling focus and became a
portrait painter
Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...
. She is the daughter of Scottish singer
Annie Lennox
Ann Lennox (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the New wave music, new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician D ...
and Israeli record producer
Uri Fruchtmann
Uri Fruchtmann ( he, אורי פרוכטמן; born 1955) is an Israeli human rights activist, film producer and director.Astrid ZweynertSecretive human rights group fights abuses with military-style precision ''Reuters'', April 15, 2016
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, and sister of
Lola Lennox
Lola Lennox Fruchtmann (born 10 December 1990), known professionally as Lola Lennox, is a British singer, songwriter, and model. She is the sister of British fashion model Tali Lennox, and daughter of Scottish singer Annie Lennox and Israeli fi ...
.
Career
In spring 2011, she appeared in various fashion houses, including
Acne Studios
Acne Studios is a multidisciplinary luxury fashion house based in Stockholm, Sweden that specializes in men's and women's ready-to-wear fashion, footwear, accessories and denim. When founded in 1996, the label derived its name from the creative co ...
Prada
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New York City
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, where she took acting classes in the winter of 2013 with
Susan Batson
Susan Batson (born February 27, 1943, in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American producer, actress, author, acting coach, and a life member of the Actors Studio. Batson graduated from Girls Latin School and Emerson College.
One of three sister ...
as her teacher.
Personal life
Lennox's longtime boyfriend was American artist and model Ian Jones. On 8 August 2015, Lennox and Jones were
kayaking
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on the
Hudson River
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in the US when their dual
kayak
A kayak is a small, narrow watercraft which is typically propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle. The word kayak originates from the Greenlandic word ''qajaq'' ().
The traditional kayak has a covered deck and one or more cockpits, each se ...
capsized. Lennox was rescued by strangers on a passing boat, but Jones could not be found. After a two-day search, Jones' body was found. His cause of death was found to be accidental and "consistent with drowning." Jones's funeral was held on 17 August in his home state of
Pennsylvania
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and attended by Tali, her mother Annie and her sister Lola.