Valli Kemp (born 19 November 1950) is an Australian former model and
actress turned fashion designer, painter and art teacher. She is best
known for her involvement in several high-profile beauty contests in
the early 1970s, and for her memorable role in the cult 1972 horror
film Dr. Phibes Rises Again, in which she appeared opposite Vincent
Price as the murderous doctor's silent assistant and accomplice,
Vulnavia.By her own account, Valli Kemp was born in Kenya to British
parents. During the Mau Mau Uprising of the 1950s, Kemp's father "lost
everything" (as she later put it) and the family, including
seven-year-old Kemp, relocated to London. Kemp and her parents
subsequently migrated to Australia when she was twelve years old,
although her older brother George (eight years her senior) remained in
England. The family settled in Sydney. Kemp, who had become interested
in art while still a young child in Africa, left school at the age of
fourteen and gained a position with Berlei Ltd, a prominent and
long-established Australian firm of brassiere and corset
manufacturers, where she worked on poster design and window
dressing.It was also at the age of fourteen that Kemp began her career
as a model. She appeared in numerous TV commercials as well as a
promotional video made by the Beach Boys during their first tour of
Australia in 1964. Kemp was later discovered by the publishers of the
Australasian Post, an enduring and popular illustrated magazine, on
which she appeared as a cover girl on no fewer than 27 occasions. In
1967, she was photographed alongside an American sailor on board a
visiting destroyer, the USS Epperson. Her fame began to spread outside
Australia as early as December 1969, when a revealing photograph of
Kemp in a bikini ("in an old-fashioned check with braids and frills")
was published in an Ohio newspaper. Valli Kemp Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter