Career Timeline
| Year | Career Milestone |
| 1979. | Carol lands her first job at Italian Harper’s Bazaar. |
| First Collections in Italian Fashion Collections for Italian Bazaar | |
| First ever cover – Italian Bazaar! | |
| First appearance in US Vogue. | |
| Worldwide face of Lancôme. | |
| 1980. | First Harper’s Bazaar cover. |
| First Cosmopolitan cover sells out. | |
| Life Magazine dubs Carol “The Next Million Dollar Face!” New face of Louis Feraud Fashions. Face of Albert Nippon Fashions. | |
| 1981. | Fashion Of The Times cover spurs industry to say Carol is “overexposed”, so Carol starts to do runway to keep busy. |
| Carol becomes the first high fashion model to do fashion shows and she wins the CFDA’s “New Model Of The Year” award. |
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| 1982. | First “Cover Girl and High Fashion Model” to run the catwalk. |
| First time in Sports Illustrated bathing suit issue. | |
| 1983. | Carol does TV hosting for Fashion Avenue, the predecessor to MTV’S “House of Fashion”. |
| Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover (first time). | |
| Cult Film “Portfolio”, shot by Universal Films. | |
| 1984. | 1984 GMA Fashion consultant. |
| CoverGirl picks Carol as its new face. | |
| 1985. | First of 5 best selling posters comes out. |
| Bob Fosse picks Carol as Ursula in “Sweet Charity”, to run in L.A. and San Francisco. | |
| 1986. | Carol does her first three European movies. |
| 1987. | First hit European movie with Eliot Gould called “My first 40 Years”. |
| Virginia Slims campaign. | |
| Cosmopolitan picks Carol to do the first celebrity exercise videos. | |
| Carol wins first Telegatto and Moda’s “New Actress” Oscar | |
| 1988. | Amaretto di Sarrono – Amaretto di Alt and Amaretto di Carol winter campaign (Christmas “Carol”) |
| First Carol Alt calendar sells out in September of ‘86 for “87. | |
| Wins 1st of three European Emmy’s in May. | |
| Moda Magazine dubs Carol “New Actress of the year” and presents her an Oscar. | |
| Carol shoots her first American miniseries: “Vendetta” starring Eric Roberts, Eli Wallach and Burt Young. | |
| 1989. | GMC Advertising Campaign – “I don’t like boxer shorts”. |
| Carol wins the Umbra Award for her movie “The Outsiders”, with Michael Nouri, Rod Steiger and Philippe Noiret. |
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| 1990. | “Best” award given by Mont Blanc. |
| Monte Carlo film festival wants to award Carol’s movie, “A Vice for Living”, but Carol cannot make it – thereby forfeiting the award. | |
| 1991. | Hanes contract – “Wait Until We Get Our Hands on You” |
| Carol’s movie “Vacation 90″ produced by Di Laurentis wins the “Golden box office ticket award” for box office sales. | |
| 1992. | Carol has her own line of Persol sunglasses named “Carol”. |
| 1993. | Carol releases her first single – becomes #1 in Germany. |
| The movie “Bye-Bye Baby” is Blockbuster’s pick of the week. | |
| 1994. | First American series, “Thunder in Paradise”, goes #1 worldwide. |
| 1995. | Anna Karenina
Playboy dubs Carol “Most beautiful woman in the world”. |
| 1996. | “Supermodels in the Rainforest” – tries to help save the Amazon. |
| 1997. | “Private Parts” – Howard Stern’s movie. |
| First “E! Celebrity Profile” special on Carol Alt. | |
| “Under the African sun” – Carol writes, produces and directs the children in this limited series. | |
| 1998. | Carol shoots 2 more movies for American TV. |
| 1999. | “Amazon” by Peter Benchley (”Jaws”) becomes the #1 NEW DRAMATIC SERIES, Carol’s face launches the new line of Zepter cosmetics-La Dansa. |
| 2000. | Carol signs a deal to be first celebrity spokesperson, marketing and development expert for QVC’’s “Le Mirador”. |
| 2002. | Two new films “Hitters” and “The Look” take the Film Festivals by storm. |
| 2003. | First film for the Sci-Fi channel becomes a success. |
| 2004. | Two more films are released: “Signs of the Cross” and “Mattie Fresno”, plus the “Holoflux Universe”. |
| 2005. | Carol’s first book, “Eating in the Raw”, is published by Random House/Clarkson Potter and becomes a USA Today’s and Amazon Book’s bestseller. |
| 2006. | Carol becomes the co-host of Jack LaLanne’s new power juicer infomercial. |
| 2007. | Carol’s new book, “The Raw 50″, is published. |
| 2008. | The first of a new series of books entitled “This Year’s Model” will be published by Harper Collins. |
