Julie Crosthwaite (also known as Julie Crosthwait) was born in July 1951 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. She is an actress, known for Armchair Cinema (1973), The Picnic (1976) and The Protectors (1972). She was on the first British edition of the Cosmopolitan in March 1971. The then twenty-one-year-old Julie Crosthwait was the model for the first issue cover taken by David Magnus. She was chosen by editorial director Helen Gurley Brown