Elizabeth Hurley

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress and model.

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 aneponymous 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]



Contents
[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[ edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (née Titt) and Roy Leonard Hurley.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Channel_8-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Her father was a major in the British Army; her mother was a teacher at Kempshott Junior School.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Channel_8-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  She has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother, Michael James Hurley.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-netglimse_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Fashion
 * 2.2 Film
 * 2.3 Television
 * 2.4 Charity
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AMG_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  Hurley attended Harriet Costello School<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  in Basingstoke, and while in her teens she became involved with punk fashion, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hurley_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-punk_12-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  She also reportedly associated with New Age travellers in her youth.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13] ==Career<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Fashion<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Hurley with fashion designer Valentino Garavaniat the 2007 Cannes Film Festival<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In 1995, with no prior modelling experience, Hurley was introduced as an Estée Lauder spokesmodel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lauder_relationship_1-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hurley_4-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  She later recounted, "I was far from an ingénue, having had my first modelling job at 29."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lauder_relationship_1-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  Hurley has since featured in ads for Lauder's 'Pleasures', 'Beautiful', 'Dazzling', 'Tuscany per Donna', and 'Sensuous' fragrances as well as participated in campaigns for the company's other cosmetics.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-modeling_jobs_14-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  She was replaced as the face of Estée Lauder by Carolyn Murphy in 2001. However, she continues to work with the company non-exclusively, signing a contract for the 16th year with Lauder in 2010.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lauder_non-exclusive_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  In 2005, she modelled for Saloni, Liverpool Department Stores of Mexico, and Lancel. She was part of the seasonal advertising campaigns for Jordache, Shiatzy Chen, Got Milk?, Patrick Cox, MQ Clothiers of Sweden, and Lancel in 2006<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]  andMonsoon in 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  In 2008, Hurley was unveiled as the seasonal campaign face for Blackglama mink.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  Hurley has appeared three times on the cover of BritishVogue.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  She is signed to TESS Management in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In April 2005, Elizabeth Hurley Beach, her beachwear line that she also models every summer, was launched at Harrods in the UK.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-timesonline1_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  It debuted later that year in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States and other European countries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hello_21-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Tatler_interview_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  In May 2008, Hurley designed and modelled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Mango_line_23-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23] ===Film<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">]  === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hurley made her first film appearance in Aria (1987).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Channel_8-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hurley_4-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-deal_with_castle_rock_24-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26] ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Hurley at the launch of Estee Lauder's new fragrance, Sensuous, in July 2008<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In the late 1980s, Hurley portrayed the title character in a five-part television drama, Christabel. After appearing in John Cleese's The Human Face (2001), she hosted the inaugural season of the British reality series Project Catwalk on Sky1 in 2006. The show drew tepid ratings with only 1% of its target audience tuning into the first few episodes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Project_Catwalk_27-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  Hurley was almost universally criticised as a presenter. Marcelle D'Argy Smith, a former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, called her "witheringly boring" and added: "Liz Hurley has no fashion experience whatsoever. She wore a dress and has appeared at premieres."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Project_Catwalk_27-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  GQ's Dylan Jones defended her as someone "immersed in the fashion world as a celebrity."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Project_Catwalk_27-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  Hurley was ridiculed by critics for her "aspirational Basingstoke-gone-jetset accent and dead fish stare,"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Project_Catwalk_27-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  while also being described as "the not-nice-but-dim host."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Project_Catwalk_27-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">She was dropped after one season because her bosses reportedly believed she was too wooden.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-second_season_28-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  It was later revealed that Hurley had asked contestants to send her free clothes off the record.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vercale_30-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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 theUpper East Side will change the lives of all our characters—including, and especially, Gossip Girl herself."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[31]  In September 2013, she was cast in one of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E! E!]'s first two scripted pilots, The Royals,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[32]  which was officially picked up in March 2014 and is set to air in 2015.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-variety_33-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33]  The drama series, revolving around a fictional British Royal Familyand set in modern London, will star Hurley as the matriarch Queen Helena.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-variety_33-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[33] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[34] ===Charity<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[35]  Hurley, whose grandmother died of breast cancer,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[36]  was the MC at "The Hot Pink Party" that marked the tenth anniversary of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;">[citation needed]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">Hurley supported the Prince's Trust by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[37]  and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[38]  She has also helped raise funds for End Hunger Network,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EHN_39-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[39]  ARK children's charity,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ark_40-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[40]  and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imran_41-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[41]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[42]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[43] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">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,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hurley_4-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hurley_4-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  After 13 years together, Hurley and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[44]  According to The Guardian,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-HG_girlfriend_5-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-swimsuit_issue_45-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[45]

Hurley with her then husband Arun Nayar at the Ampney CrucisVillage Fete in 2008<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Timeline_46-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[46]  The baby's father, Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[47]  A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-48" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[48]  Hugh Grant is his godfather.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[49]  Hurley is godmother to Patsy Kensitand Liam Gallagher's son Lennon and two of David and Victoria Beckham's sons (Brooklyn and Romeo).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[50]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">In late 2002, Hurley started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company since 1998.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[51]  On 2 March 2007, Hurley and Nayar married atSudeley Castle and then had a second traditional Hindu wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wedding_52-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[52]  The Indian celebrations included a sangeet at Nagaur Fort<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Hello.21_53-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[53] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[54]  and a reception at Mehrangarh Fort.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[55]  The wedding ceremonies, photos of which were sold to ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello! Hello!]'' magazine for a reported £2 million,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[56]  were attended by numerous celebrities, including Elton John, who gave Hurley away.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[57]  Hurley, whose net worth was estimated at £13 million in 2003,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[58]  resided on a 400-acre (1.6 km<sup style="line-height:1;">2 ) organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-wedding_date_59-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[59] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Red_mag_interview_60-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[60]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.363636016845703px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;">On 12 December 2010, following press reports linking her romantically with Australian cricketer Shane Warne,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[61] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[62]  Hurley announced that she and her husband Arun had separated several months earlier.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[63]  Hurley filed for divorce on 2 April 2011, citing as the cause Nayar's "unreasonable behaviour",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[64]  a conventional ground for divorce under English law. The divorce was granted on 15 June 2011.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[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,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[66]  with their engagement confirmed via Twitter shortly thereafter.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[67]  On 16 December 2013, Hello magazine reported that the couple had decided to split.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[68] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Theatre
 * The Cherry Orchard – A Jubilee (Russian & Soviet Arts Festival)
 * The Man Most Likely To (Middle East tour)