Model who starred in TV drama Dallas dies aged 62

A model, producer and actress who rose to prominence in the 1980s fashion world before appearing in the US TV drama Dallas has died aged 62.

Annabel Schofield died from cancer on 28 February in Los Angeles, where she had lived for many years.

Born in 1963 in Llanelli, Schofield first underwent surgery for the illness in 2023 and restarted chemotherapy in November 2025 after learning it had spread to her brain. In recent months, she had spoken publicly about her diagnosis and sought support for treatment costs.

At 16, she left Wales to pursue a modelling career in London and went on to work with major fashion houses including Versace and Yves Saint Laurent.

She became known internationally for a Bugle Boy jeans advert in the late 1980s and later worked as a film and TV producer. She also authored a semi-autobiographical novel.

Schofield was the daughter of movie producer John D. Schofield, whose credits include As Good as It Gets and Jerry Maguire.

Melissa Richardson, who at the time owned the London modelling agency Take Two to which Schofield was signed, said she had been a favourite of the photographer David Bailey and had appeared in "countless shoots" for Italian Vogue.

"She was the forerunner of Take Two - without her, we could never have made it as we did," Richardson told The Hollywood Reporter.

"We loved her because she was funny and real and beautiful and down to earth. She never changed from the sweet little 17-year-old Welsh girl I first met.

"She was directly loyal, caring, and above all, a raging beauty. She knew her craft. She was the best."

Schofield gained international recognition for a late-1980s Bugle Boy jeans advertisement in which she drove a black Ferrari through the desert before stopping beside a man standing at the roadside.

Rolling down the passenger-side window, she said: "Excuse me. Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?"

After he replied yes, she said "Thank you," before speeding away and leaving him standing in the dust.

At the height of her modelling career, Schofield relocated to Los Angeles.

She appeared in the low-budget film Bloodtide in 1982 before being cast in the long-running American television series Dallas, which at the time was in its 11th season.

Schofield played Laurel Ellis, a friend of Clayton Farlow who is blackmailed by the show's central character JR Ewing into having sex with him to protect her friend.

Other roles followed, including a performance in the 1990 science fiction thriller Solar Crisis opposite Charlton Heston.

Later in her career, Schofield moved behind the camera and in 2010 founded Bella Bene Productions in Burbank, California.

She also wrote about 1980s culture and fashion on a blog called The Cherry Alignment, before releasing a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name in 2013.

Schofield posted on Instagram about her cancer diagnosis, and having had to stop work because of her illness, sought support through a GoFundMe page, which raised nearly $35,000 (£26,100) in donations.

After restarting chemotherapy in November, she underwent surgery again in January but died the following month.