Elizabeth Hurley

At 58 years old, Elizabeth Hurley has this physical status:

Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English businesswoman, actor, and model.

Hurley has been employed by Estée Lauder since the company gave Hurley her first modeling job at the age of 29.

Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures have all been featured as a spokesperson and model for their brands, particularly perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures.

Hurley owns an eponymous beachwear line. Vanessa Kensington, actor Rebecca Kensington, appeared in Mike Myers' hit spy film, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and As the Devil in Bedazzled (2000).

In 2015, Hurley began starring in the E!

Hurley accompanied Grant in 1994, when he became the center of international media attention due to the success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, his brother Robert Johnson accompanied him to the Los Angeles premiere in a soaring black Versace costume, clutching gold safety pins, gaining her immediate media interest.

Early life

Elizabeth Hurley was born on June 10th, 1965 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary (née Titt) and Roy Leonard Hurley (18 June 1929 – 17 November 1996). She is half Irish. Her father was a major in the Royal Army Educational Corps, and her mother taught Kempshott Junior School. Kathleen ('Kate'), her older sister, and Michael Hurley, her younger brother.

Hurley attended Harriet Costello School, a mixed secondary in Basingstoke, and became interested in punk fashion as a teenager, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose. "Punk was the thing to be in Basingstoke, the suburb I grew up in," she said. In her youth, she is said to have been involved with New Age tourists. She enrolled in ballet classes as an eager teenager. Hurley's sixth form began in 1983 and received A-levels in English, Sociology, and Psychology, before spending three years at the London Studio Centre studying dance and theatre. Since going AWOL to a Greek island in 1986, she was kicked out from the academy.

Personal life

Hurley, a little-known actress when she first met Hugh Grant in 1987 while working on a Spanish film called Remando Al Viento. Hurley became best known as Grant's girlfriend in the 1990s. Hurley accompanied Grant in 1994 as he became the center of international media attention due to the success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, the actor accompanied him to the London premiere in a plunging black Versace costume clutched with gold safety pins, attracting her immediate media notice. Grant, who was dating Hurley, became famous for soliciting the services of a prostitute in 1995. Hurley stayed by Grant and joined him at the premiere of his film Nine Months. Hurley and Grant announced a "amicable" split in May 2000, despite being thirteen years together.

Hurley's son, Damian Charles Hurley, was born on April 4, 2002. Steve Bing, the baby's father, denied paternity by claiming that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive friendship in 2001. However, a DNA test revealed Bing as Damian's father. Hugh Grant is Damian's godfather. Lennon and Lennon's sons, as well as two of David and Victoria Beckham's sons Brooklyn and Romeo, are godmothers to Patsy Kensit and Liam Gallagher's sons.

Hurley's textile heir Arun Nayar, who has owned a small software company since 1998, was listed in late 2002. They married in 2007. Hurley and her son and husband lived on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, for the first time. Hurley revealed in December 2010 that she and her husband had split a few months ago. Hurley applied for divorce on April 2nd, 2011, citing Nayar's "unreasonable conduct" as the reason for the separation under English law. The divorce was approved on June 15, 2011.

Hurley and Shane Warne, a former Australian cricketer, became engaged in late 2011, three months after she had divorced.

Hurley and Warne bought the Donnington Hall, a Grade II-listed mansion near Ledbury, Herefordshire, as their main home in 2012. The pair had agreed to split on December 16, 2013, according to Hello magazine. Since her breakup, she has been living in the area.

Miles Hurley's nephew was repeatedly stabbed in the back by a group of men in Wandsworth, south London, in March 2018. "The worst wound just stopped severing his spine," she said of the family's "appalling" period. No vital organs were destroyed by some miracle.

Ex-Fiancé Warne of Hurley died on March 4th, 2022. "I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever," she said on hearing of his death. "My beloved lionheart" is going to be sadly "RIP."

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Career

Hurley made her first film appearance in Aria (1987). She subsequently appeared in the movies Passenger 57, EDtv, Bedazzled, Serving Sara 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 (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (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 and labelled "Elizabeth Scably" by protesters.

In 1988, Hurley appeared briefly in a speaking part as a schoolgirl in "Last Seen Wearing", an episode of the detective series Inspector Morse, which was partly filmed at a real school, Reading Blue Coat, Sonning, 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 and the Barrow Boy). In late 1988, Hurley portrayed the title character in a four-part television drama, Christabel. After appearing in John Cleese's The Human Face (2001), she hosted the inaugural series of the British reality show Project Catwalk on Sky 1 in 2006. Hurley was criticised as a presenter by Marcelle D'Argy Smith, a former editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, who said: "Liz Hurley has no fashion experience whatsoever. She wore a dress and has appeared at premieres." GQ's Dylan Jones 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's Wonder Woman as the villain Veronica Cale. 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." 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 villain Morgan le Fay 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.

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. 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. 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 and Monsoon 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. 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 in the UK. It debuted later that year in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States and other European countries. 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." In May 2008, Hurley designed and modelled a capsule collection of 12 swimsuits for the Spanish clothes brand MANGO.

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