Viola Haqi is a Dutch-Iraqi model, born and raised in Amsterdam. At the age of 18, she was discovered by another model, on the train on her way to kickboxing class. Less than 3 months later Metropolitan Models offered her a modeling contract. She moved to Paris in the fall of that year, and after working hard and long hours her career started to take off.

With 13 French Elle covers in her pocket and having lived in Paris for 2 years, Viola was ready for a new adventure.  She packed up and moved to NYC—a place where she worked with photographers such as Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Walter Chin, and Michael Thompson. She did several jobs for international brands such as Abercrombie and Fitz, Fila, Oil of Olay, ROC, Oenobiol, La Perla, La Mer, Revlon, Thermasilk, Galenic, Redken and Bioré, and has been in numerous television commercials for Clairol, Ushuaïa, Lee Jeans, Lexus among many more.