Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English actress and model.
As an actress, her best-known film roles have been as
Vanessa Kensington
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in ''
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' (1997) and as the
Devil
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in ''
Bedazzled'' (2000).
["Liz Hurley: Life in the spotlight"](_blank)
BBC. Retrieved 31 March 2007. Hurley's television roles include the
E! original series ''
The Royals'' (2015–2018) and portraying
Morgan le Fay
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in ''
Runaways'' (2019), based on the
Marvel Comics
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series of the same name.
Her first role in a big budget film was in ''
Passenger 57
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'' (1992). In 1994, Hurley accompanied
Hugh Grant
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to the London premiere of his film ''
Four Weddings and a Funeral
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'',
[Farndale, Nigel. ''Movie Connections: Four Weddings and a Funeral''. ''The Sunday Telegraph'', page 39. 16 September 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.] in a plunging
black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention.
She has been associated with the cosmetics company
Estée Lauder since the company gave Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29.
They have featured her as a representative and model for their products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995.
Murphy sidelines Hurley at Lauder
'' – CNN. Retrieved 15 June 2008. Hurley owns an
eponymous
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beachwear line.
Early life
Elizabeth Hurley was born on 10 June 1965 in
Basingstoke
Basingstoke ( ) is the largest town in the county of Hampshire. It is situated in south-central England and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon, at the far western edge of The North Downs. It is located north-east of Southa ...
, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (
née
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Titt) and Roy Leonard Hurley (8 June 192917 November 1996).
She is half
Irish
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. Her father was a major in the
Royal Army Educational Corps
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;
her mother was a teacher at Kempshott Junior School.
Elizabeth Hurley
'' – thebiographychannel.co.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2007. She has an older sister, Kathleen ('Kate'), and a younger brother, Michael Hurley.
Hurley attended
Harriet Costello School
The Costello School is an 11–16 mixed secondary school with academy status in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.
It originally opened as Basingstoke High School for girls. It became Harriet Costello Secondary School in 1972 when it became a co ...
, a
mixed secondary in Basingstoke, and, while in her teens, she became involved with
punk fashion
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, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose.
"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.
When Sell-outs reach their sell-by date
' – herald.ie. Retrieved 4 August 2008. She also reportedly associated with
New Age travellers
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in her youth. Aspiring to be a dancer as a young girl, she enrolled in
ballet
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classes. Hurley continued in the sixth form and took A-levels in English, Sociology and Psychology in 1983 before spending three years studying dance and theatre at the
London Studio Centre
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. She was expelled from the school in 1986 after going
AWOL
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to a Greek island.
Elizabeth Hurley
' – Allmovie. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
Career
Film
Hurley made her first film appearance in ''
Aria
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'' (1987).
She subsequently appeared in the movies ''
Passenger 57
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'', ''
EDtv
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'', ''
Bedazzled'', ''
Serving Sara
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'' and ''
Dangerous Ground''. 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''.
[ 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
''Extreme Measures'' is a 1996 crime film, crime thriller film based on Michael Palmer (novelist), Michael Palmer's 1991 novel of the same name, dealing with the ethics of medical sacrifices. The film was directed by Michael Apted and starred Hug ...
'' (1996) and ''Mickey Blue Eyes
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'' (1999). 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
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30, 2012, the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to m ...
and labelled "Elizabeth Scably" by protesters.
Television
In 1988, Hurley appeared briefly in a speaking part as a schoolgirl in "Last Seen Wearing", an episode of the detective series ''Inspector Morse
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'', which was partly filmed at a real school, Reading Blue Coat, Sonning
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Geogr ...
, Berkshire. This is believed to have been her first television role. In the same year she also played Rosie Japhet in an episode of '' Rumpole of the Bailey
''Rumpole of the Bailey'' is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It starred Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, a middle-aged London barrister who defended a broad variety of clients, o ...
'' (Rumpole and the Barrow Boy). In late 1988, Hurley portrayed the title character in a four-part television drama, '' Christabel''. After appearing in John Cleese
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's '' The Human Face'' (2001), she hosted the inaugural series of the British reality show ''Project Catwalk
''Project Catwalk'' is a competitive reality television show focusing on fashion design. In the UK it is shown on the Digital data, digital station Sky One. The show follows a group of fashion designers as they compete against each other to avoi ...
'' on Sky 1
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in 2006. Hurley was criticised as a presenter by Marcelle D'Argy Smith, a former editor of ''Cosmopolitan
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* Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
History
* Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
Hotels and resorts
* Cosmopoli ...
'' magazine, who said: "Liz Hurley has no fashion experience whatsoever. She wore a dress and has appeared at premieres." '' GQ''s Dylan Jones
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defended her as someone "immersed in the fashion world as a celebrity." She was dropped after one series because her bosses reportedly believed she was too wooden.
In 2011, Hurley filmed a guest star role in the series pilot of NBC
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's ''Wonder Woman
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'' as the villain Veronica Cale
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. 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
''Gossip Girl'' is an American teen drama television series based on the novel series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, developed for television by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, ran on The CW network for six sea ...
'' 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
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will change the lives of all our characters—including, and especially, Gossip Girl herself." In September 2013, she was cast in one of E!'s first two scripted pilots, '' The Royals'', which was picked up in March 2014 and aired in 2015. The drama series, revolving around a fictional British Royal Family and set in modern London, stars Hurley as the matriarch Queen Helena. Hurley played Marvel Comics
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villain Morgan le Fay
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in the final season of the Hulu show '' Runaways'', released in 2019. In January 2021, Hurley appeared as a guest judge in the first episode of the second series of ''RuPaul's Drag Race UK
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''.
Fashion
In 1995, with no prior modelling experience, Hurley was introduced as an Estée Lauder spokesmodel.[ She later recounted, "I was far from an ingénue, having had my first modelling job at 29."] 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.
Elizabeth Hurley
' – Fashion Model Directory. Retrieved 28 July 2008. She was replaced as the face of Estée Lauder by Carolyn Murphy
Carolyn Murphy (born August 11, 1974) is an American model and actress.
Career
In 1998, Murphy was named VH1/''Vogue''s Model of the Year. She played Dubbie in Barry Levinson's film ''Liberty Heights''. She was one of the 'Modern Muses' on the No ...
in 2001. However, she continues to work with the company non-exclusively, signing a contract for the 16th year with Lauder in 2010. In 2005, she modelled for Saloni, Liverpool Department Stores of Mexico, and Lancel. She was part of the seasonal advertising campaigns for Jordache
Jordache Enterprises, Inc. is an American clothing company that markets apparel, including shirts, jeans, and outerwear. , Shiatzy Chen
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, Got Milk?
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, Patrick Cox
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, MQ Clothiers of Sweden, and Lancel in 2006 and Monsoon
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in 2007. In 2008, Hurley was unveiled as the seasonal campaign face for Blackglama mink. Hurley has appeared three times on the cover of British ''Vogue
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Business
* ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine
** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine
** ''Vogue China'', ...
''. She is signed to TESS Management in London.
In April 2005, Elizabeth Hurley Beach, her beachwear line that she also models every summer, was launched at Harrods
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in the UK. It debuted later that year in select Saks Fifth Avenue
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stores in the United States and other European countries.
Elizabeth Hurley
' – hellomagazine.com. Retrieved 31 March 2007. She told ''Tatler
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'' magazine, "I was on Necker Island for a fashion shoot and even as Richard Branson
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Branson expressed ...
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." In May 2008, Hurley designed and modelled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO
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.
Charity
Hurley has been active in Estée Lauder's Breast Cancer
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Awareness Campaign, as part of which the company created an "Elizabeth Pink" lipstick whose sales benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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. Hurley's grandmother died of breast cancer.
Hurley supported The Prince's Trust
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by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004. She has also helped raise funds for End Hunger Network,
Celebrities who care
'' – endhunger.com. Retrieved 4 August 2008. ARK children's charity, and the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
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.
She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation
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. She is also patron of the City Veterans Network, a charity based in the City of London
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that links former members of the Armed Forces to opportunities for rehabilitation and employment.
Politics
In June 2016, Hurley expressed her support for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union
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and urged the public to vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
Personal life
Hurley was a relatively unknown actress when she met Hugh Grant
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in 1987 while working on a Spanish production called ''Remando Al Viento
''Rowing with the Wind'' a.k.a. ''Remando al viento'' (Spanish title) is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. The film won seven Goya Awards. It concerns the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle.
Plot
In the summer ...
''. In the 1990s, Hurley became known mostly as Grant's girlfriend. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of international media attention due to the success of his film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral
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'', Hurley accompanied him to the film's London premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention. While dating Hurley, Grant gained international notoriety for soliciting the services of a prostitute in 1995. Hurley stood by Grant and accompanied him to the premiere of his film ''Nine Months
''Nine Months'' is a 1995 American romantic comedy film produced, written and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore, Tom Arnold, Joan Cusack, Jeff Goldblum, and Robin Williams. It is a remake of the French film ' ...
''.[ After thirteen years together, Hurley and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000.]
On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley. The baby's father, American businessman Steve Bing
Stephen Leo Bing (March 31, 1965 – June 22, 2020) was an American businessman, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter. He was the founder of Shangri-La Entertainment, an organization with interests in property, construction, entertai ...
, denied paternity by claiming that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as Damian's father. Hugh Grant is Damian's godfather. Hurley is godmother to Patsy Kensit
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Beginning her career as a child actor, Kensit gained attention when she acted in a string of commercials for Bird ...
and Liam Gallagher
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's son Lennon and two of David
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and Victoria Beckham
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's sons Brooklyn and Romeo.
In late 2002, Hurley began dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company since 1998. They married in 2007. Hurley lived on a organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband. In December 2010, Hurley announced that she and her husband had separated several months earlier. Hurley filed for divorce on 2 April 2011, citing Nayar's "unreasonable behaviour" as the cause, grounds for divorce under English law. The divorce was granted on 15 June 2011.
In late 2011, three months after her divorce, Hurley and Shane Warne
Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Australia ...
, a former Australian cricketer, were engaged.
In 2012, Hurley and Warne bought the Grade II–listed mansion Donnington Hall, near Ledbury
Ledbury is a market town and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England, lying east of Hereford, and west of the Malvern Hills.
It has a significant number of timber-framed structures, in particular along Church Lane and High Street ...
, Herefordshire
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, as their main home. On 16 December 2013, ''Hello
''Hello'' is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is first attested in writing from 1826. Early uses
''Hello'', with that spelling, was used in publications in the U.S. as early as the 18 October 1826 edition of the ''Norwich C ...
'' magazine reported that the pair had decided to split. She has remained living there since their breakup.
In March 2018, her nephew Miles Hurley was stabbed repeatedly in the back by a group of men in Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan
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, south London. She described it as an "appalling" time for the family, stating: "The deepest wound just missed severing his spine. By some miracle no vital organs were damaged."
Hurley's ex-fiancé Warne died on 4 March 2022. Upon hearing of his death, she paid tribute by saying: "I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever. RIP my beloved lionheart".
Filmography
Film
Television
Theatre
* ''The Cherry Orchard – A Jubilee'' (Russian & Soviet Arts Festival)
* ''The Man Most Likely To'' (Middle East tour)
References
External links
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Living people
People from Basingstoke
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