Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968, in New York City) is an American TV and film actress. She is famous for her role as Caroline Holden on the worldwide-syndicated TV series Baywatch, where she played a red-swimsuit-clad professional lifeguard. Her given name Yasmine is Arabic for a fragrant flower and Hebrew for Jasmine. Bleeth is Yiddish in origin, and was once spelled as Blut, which is German for blood..