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| Birth Name(s) : Elizabeth Hurley |
Date of Birth: June 10, 1965 |
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Single
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Actor/Model |
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Full Elizabeth Hurley Biography
UK-born Elizabeth Hurley went through the punk rock phase with long pink hair and a nose ring, but had to leave that behind to promote an image casting directors approved of as she pursued an acting career. Her debut was in the film "Aria" (1987), which led to several small television and movie parts. She met Hugh Grant on the set of "Remando al viento" (1987) and her life was to be forever changed.
Now Elizabeth is seen as a siren on and off the screen internationally. Her success continues with hits such as "Passenger 57" (1992), "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" (1997) and "Bedazzled" (2000). |
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Additional Elizabeth Hurley Biography
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born June 10, 1965) is an English beachwear designer, former fashion model, and sometime actress and producer. She is best known as an exemplary "professional celebrity" and as the spokesperson for Estée Lauder.
Hurley took ballet classes as a child. She went to Kempshott Junior and Infants school and the Harriet Costello School, now known as Costello Technology College. Hurley later attended Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke, for one year, followed by Basingstoke College of Technology, and won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre.
Whilst in her teens and before she was in the public eye, she became involved with punk fashion, where she dyed her hair pink and pierced her nose. She associated with New Age Travellers who sat under The Buttercross monument and the grounds of the Cathedral in Winchester, near to where she lived.
In 1994, Grant's film Four Weddings and a Funeral was an international box office success and by the time it premiered in London, Grant was the focus of much media attention. Hurley attended the premiere in a black plunging Versace dress held together with gold safety pins and was relentlessly photographed at the event. It has often been referred in the media simply as "that dress". This appearance propelled her to relative global recognition. According to the New York Times, for many years, she was recognized chiefly as Hugh Grant's girlfriend, until their separation in 2000.
In 1995, Hurley began working with top cosmetics company Estée Lauder as their main spokesmodel. Within her first month with the company, Hurley launched the best-selling perfume, Pleasures. In 2007, Hurley's contract with Estée Lauder was renewed for the 13th year with a subsequent contract extension.
She has appeared several times on the covers of renowned fashion magazine Vogue and hosted the first season of the British reality series Project Catwalk, featuring novice fashion designers. In 2005, Hurley's beachwear line Elizabeth Hurley Beach debuted in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States, Harrod's in the UK, various other locations worldwide and through her website. In 2006, the line expanded its distribution among Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Asia. In 2007, Hurley was voted best "British Body Idol" in New Woman magazine, for which 5,000 women reportedly cast votes.Hurley as Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Hurley was cast as the female lead as Vanessa Kensington in the hit Mike Myers spy comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997. After the success of that film, she reprised the role of Vanessa in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me in 1999 and essayed several lead characters in mostly ignored films such as EdTV, Bedazzled, Double Whammy and 2002's Serving Sara, which was her last American film.
Hurley was publically criticised in 2000 when she fell foul of U.S. acting unions. She filmed a fashion advertisement for Estée Lauder that year, breaking a five-month acting strike. She was subsequently fined £70,000 by the Screen Actors Guild. Hurley apologised for breaking the strike, but stated that she had been unaware of the strike due to her life in the UK and the union had not informed her of the industrial action. She was later confronted by a protest of angry actors at the U.S. première of her film Bedazzled in October, where protesters brandished banners stating "Elizabeth Scably".
Since signing with Estée Lauder, Hurley has taken an active role in the company's breast cancer charity. Hurley revealed that her grandmother died from breast cancer because for years she had refused to reveal the existence of a lump. By the time this was revealed, it was too late to save her life. Hurley was the mistress of ceremonies at "The Hot Pink Party" at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City to mark the tenth anniversary of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Additionally, Estée Lauder created a lipstick named "Elizabeth Pink" after Hurley; proceeds from the its sales benefit The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The wedding festivities continued in Mumbai, India where the couple joined a private celebration held at Juhu Beach before moving on to Jodhpur, India. In Jodhpur, they held a private Hindu ceremony at Umaid Bhawan Palace, where Hurley wore couture sari made especially by her designer friend Donatella Versace. On the eve of the Hindu marriage, the couple held a sangeet, a traditional night of music, at the Nagaur Fort, 90 miles outside the city, where Hurley had her hands and feet decorated with intricate henna designs. Hurley performed the sangeet with close friends Trinny Woodall and Janet Street-Porter. The ceremony was followed by a private candle-lit reception on March 8 at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. On Hurley and Nayar's arrival outside Mehrangarh fort in Jodhpur, a fight broke out between reporters and security guards as the reporters tried to block the celebrity couple's Bentley from entering the venue for a dinner. The journalists and paparazzi then chased the car into the fort, forcing a lockdown. |
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