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” I have such a respect now for women who do pole dancing. It’s very athletic. I mean, they’re athletes! It was so hard and so painful. I had so many bruises.”

Eva Maria Livia Amurri hasn’t done a huge amount to get herself known in the UK. She has, however, got herself extremely well known in America, primarily by appearing in the David Duchovny fronted TV show Californication. She plays Jackie, a character who has done one of the best TV-strips-by-someone-who’s-not-a-professional-stripper performances of all time. She’s a born and bred New Yorker, which means she’s a whole load cooler than you already.

Eva Amurri is the daughter of actress Susan Sarandon and director Franco Amurri. This makes her a bit Welsh, a bit Italian and a bit American. She once got stealing cakes and cookies from a film set and taking them home. We don’t know what film it was. Or what kind of cookies they were. She starred in Friends in 1994 in the episode called The One With Joey’s Brain.

Eva Amurri is following in her mother Susan Sarandon’s footsteps, for she is playing the role of a student who turns to stripping in the latest series of US hit show ‘Californication’.

She stars as Jackie, a student who moonlights in a strip club, during the third season of the show starring David Duchovny

The show sees her writhing around Duchovmy’s college professor character Hank Moody, peeling off a corset to dance for him topless.