- Appeared as contender under her then name "Mirella Rocco" as an "African Big Game Hunter" on the TV-show "What's my line?" May 26th, 1957 with actor Errol Flynn in the panel.
- Sister of Oria Douglas-Hamilton.
- Mirella's mother, Giselle Bunau-Varilla was an artist who had studied sculpture under Auguste Rodin.
- Former actress who became a celebrated photographer, developing her style in the Paris studios of the early fifties under the tutelage of Vogue fashion photographer Harry Meerson. Starting out in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, she photographed the customs and ceremonies of important tribes in East Africa, culminating in her seminal book, Vanishing Africa (1971).
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