Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968, in New York City) is an American TV and film actress. She is famous for her role as Caroline Holden on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, where she played a red-swimsuit-clad professional lifeguard. Her given name Yasmine is Arabic for a fragrant flower and Hebrew for Jasmine. Bleeth is Yiddish in origin, and was once spelled as Blut, which is German for blood.

Philip Bleeth, Yasmin's American father, is Jewish of Russian and German ancestry, while her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent. Her mother was a former fashion model, while her father was a professional photographer. They both ran a business that rented vans to fashion photographers for on-location shoots. Philip Bleeth became his daughter's business manager. Bleeth's parents separated and later divorced; she was raised by her mother.