Elizabeth Hurley
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| Elizabeth Hurley | |
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Liz Hurley campaigning for Breast Cancer Awareness, London October 2010
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| Born | Elizabeth Jane Hurley 10 June 1965 Basingstoke, Hampshire, England |
| Other names | Liz Hurley |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Arun Nayar (2007–2011) |
| Partner(s) | Hugh Grant (1987–2000) Shane Warne (2010–2013) |
| Children | Damian Hurley |
| Website | |
| www.elizabethhurley.com | |
She has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder since the company gave Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29.[1] It has featured her as a representative and model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995.[2] Hurley owns an eponymous beachwear line.[3]
As an actress, her best-known film roles to date have been as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and as the Devil in Bedazzled (2000).[4]
In the 1990s, Hurley became known as the girlfriend of Hugh Grant.[5] In 1994, as Grant became the focus of international media attention due to the success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral,[6] Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention.[7]
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Early life
Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (née Titt) and Roy Leonard Hurley.[8] Her father was a major in the British Army; her mother was a teacher at Kempshott Junior School.[8] She has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Michael James Hurley.[9]Aspiring to be a dancer as a young girl, she took ballet classes and later briefly studied dance and theatre at the London Studio Centre.[10] Hurley attended Harriet Costello School[11] in Basingstoke, and while in her teens she became involved with punk fashion, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose.[4] "When I was 16 – this was about 1981, 1982 – the thing to be in Basingstoke, the suburb I grew up in, was punk," she explained.[12] She also reportedly associated with New Age travellers in her youth.[13]
Career
Fashion
In April 2005, Elizabeth Hurley Beach, her beachwear line that she also models every summer, was launched at Harrods in the UK.[3] It debuted later that year in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States and other European countries.[21] She told Tatler magazine, "I was on Necker Island for a fashion shoot and even as [Richard Branson] was lying back in a hammock, he was on the phone, doing deals, managing his empire. But then I thought I am never going to have even a holiday home, let alone an island, unless I start a business that I can do without disrupting Damian's school days."[22] In May 2008, Hurley designed and modelled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO.[23]
Film
Hurley made her first film appearance in Aria (1987).[8] She has since appeared in the movies Passenger 57, EDtv, Bedazzled, and Serving Sara. In 1997, she received her first and only acting award, the ShoWest Supporting Actress of the Year, for her performance in the spy spoof Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.[4] When Hugh Grant founded and became the director of Simian Films in 1994, Hurley was credited as one of the producers for the company's two Grant vehicles, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999).[24] In 2000, she was publicly criticised for breaking a five-month acting strike to film an Estée Lauder advertisement, for which she was fined $100,000 (£70,000 in 2000) by the Screen Actors Guild and labelled "Elizabeth Scably" by protesters.[25][26]Television
She was dropped after one season because her bosses reportedly believed she was too wooden.[28] It was later revealed that Hurley had asked contestants to send her free clothes off the record.[29] In 2011 Hurley filmed a guest star role in the series pilot of NBC's Wonder Woman as the villain Veronica Cale, potentially recurring.[30] The network decided not to pick up the series. In July 2011, it was announced that Hurley would join the fifth season of Gossip Girl for a multi-episode arc. Her character, Diana Payne, was described by the series' executive producers as "a sexy, smart, self-made media mogul and all-around force to be reckoned with", whose "entrance on the Upper East Side will change the lives of all our characters—including, and especially, Gossip Girl herself."[31] In September 2013, she was cast in one of E!'s first two scripted pilots, The Royals,[32] which was officially picked up in March 2014 and is set to air in 2015.[33] The drama series, revolving around a fictional British Royal Family and set in modern London, will star Hurley as the matriarch Queen Helena.[33][34]
Charity
Hurley has been active in Estée Lauder's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, as part of which the company created an "Elizabeth Pink" lipstick whose sales benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[35] Hurley, whose grandmother died of breast cancer,[36] was the MC at "The Hot Pink Party" that marked the tenth anniversary of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[citation needed]Hurley supported the Prince's Trust by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid[37] and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004.[38] She has also helped raise funds for End Hunger Network,[39] ARK children's charity,[40] and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.[41]
She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.[42]
Hurley is also an ambassador for the Hop Skip and Jump children's charity. She and Shane Warne announced that they were organising a cricket match in aid of Hop Skip and Jump and also the Shane Warne Foundation, at Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire on Sunday 9 June 2013. The match will involving leading cricketers such as Darren Gough, Andrew Strauss, Shaun Tait, Ian Harvey, Merv Hughes, Damien Martyn, Shaun Udal, and David Gower.[43]
Personal life
Hurley was a struggling actress when, in 1987, she met Hugh Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. While dating Hurley,[4] Grant gained international notoriety for soliciting the services of a prostitute in 1995. Hurley stood by him and accompanied Grant to the premiere of his movie Nine Months.[4] After 13 years together, Hurley and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000.[44] According to The Guardian,[5] Hurley was "then known as 'Hugh Grant's girlfriend,' now known as 'Hugh Grant's former girlfriend,'" due to the high-profile nature of their relationship.[45]
In late 2002, Hurley started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company since 1998.[51] On 2 March 2007, Hurley and Nayar married at Sudeley Castle and then had a second traditional Hindu wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur.[52] The Indian celebrations included a sangeet at Nagaur Fort[53][54] and a reception at Mehrangarh Fort.[55] The wedding ceremonies, photos of which were sold to Hello! magazine for a reported £2 million,[56] were attended by numerous celebrities, including Elton John, who gave Hurley away.[57] Hurley, whose net worth was estimated at £13 million in 2003,[58] resided on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband.[59][60]
On 12 December 2010, following press reports linking her romantically with Australian cricketer Shane Warne,[61][62] Hurley announced that she and her husband Arun had separated several months earlier.[63] Hurley filed for divorce on 2 April 2011, citing as the cause Nayar's "unreasonable behaviour",[64] a conventional ground for divorce under English law. The divorce was granted on 15 June 2011.[65] On 30 September 2011, three months after her divorce, it was reported that Hurley and Warne were engaged and she was spotted wearing a large sapphire ring,[66] with their engagement confirmed via Twitter shortly thereafter.[67] On 16 December 2013, Hello magazine reported that the couple had decided to split.[68]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Aria | Marietta | Segment "Die tote Stadt" |
| 1988 | Rowing with the Wind | Claire Clairmont | |
| 1990 | Kill Cruise | Lou | |
| 1992 | The Long Winter | Emma Stapleton | |
| 1992 | Passenger 57 | Sabrina Ritchie | |
| 1994 | Beyond Bedlam | Stephanie Lyell | |
| 1995 | The Shamrock Conspiracy | Cecilia Harrison | Television film |
| 1995 | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Antonia Dyer | |
| 1996 | Harrison: Cry of the City | Cecilia Harrison | Television film |
| 1996 | Samson and Delilah | Delilah | Television film |
| 1997 | Dangerous Ground | Karen | |
| 1997 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | Vanessa Kensington | |
| 1998 | Permanent Midnight | Sandra Stahl | |
| 1999 | My Favorite Martian | Brace Channing | |
| 1999 | EDtv | Jill | |
| 1999 | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Vanessa Kensington | |
| 2000 | The Weight of Water | Adaline Gunn | |
| 2000 | Bedazzled | The Devil | |
| 2001 | Double Whammy | Dr. Ann Beamer | |
| 2002 | Dawg | Anna Lockheart | |
| 2002 | Serving Sara | Sara Moore | |
| 2004 | Method | Rebecca | Also executive producer |
| 2008 | Valentino: The Last Emperor | Herself | Documentary |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Inspector Morse | Julia | Episode: "Last Seen Wearing" |
| 1988 | Christabel | Christabel Bielenberg | Miniseries; 5 episodes |
| 1988 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Rosie Japhet | Episode: "Rumpole and the Barrow Boy" |
| 1989 | Act of Will | Christina | Miniseries |
| 1990 | Frederick Forsyth Presents | Julia Latham | Episode: "Death Has a Bad Reputation" |
| 1991 | The Orchid House | Natalie | Miniseries; episode: "Natalie" |
| 1992 | The Good Guys | Candida Ashton | Episode: "Relative Values" |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Vicky Prentiss | Episode: "London, May 1916" |
| 1994 | Sharpe | Lady Farthingdale | Episode: "Sharpe's Enemy" |
| 2001 | The Human Face | Various | Documentary miniseries; 3 episodes |
| 2005 | Signé Chanel | Herself | Documentary miniseries; episode: "La collection" |
| 2006 | Project Catwalk | Herself | Host, judge and executive producer (season 1) |
| 2011–2012 | Gossip Girl | Diana Payne | 14 episodes |
| 2014 | The Tomorrow People | Alice | Voice; 2 episodes |
- Theatre
- The Cherry Orchard – A Jubilee (Russian & Soviet Arts Festival)
- The Man Most Likely To (Middle East tour)
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