| Elizabeth Hurley (born Elizabeth Jane
Hurley
on June 10, 1965) is a British model, actress, producer and designer
of Irish descent (on her father's side), born in Basingstoke,
Hampshire. Her mother is an English Protestant while her late father
was a lapsed Catholic of Irish descent. Her height is 1.73m. |
Elizabeth has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother,
Michael. She took ballet classes as a child and got a scholarship at
a boarding school at the age of 12 but was expelled for poor grades.
She first came to public attention following her wearing of a
form-fitting black Versace gown barely held together with safety
pins, at the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), a film
that starred her then-companion Hugh Grant.
Her notable Hollywood films include, two Austin Powers movies (1997
& 1999) and Bedazzled (2000). She has also produced two films
starring Grant, Extreme Measures (1996) and Mickey Blue Eyes (1999),
under their jointly owned Simian production company. Additionally,
in 2004 she was an executive producer on the film Method. She dated
Grant from 1987 until 2001 and they seem to remain good friends.
She is the face of Estée Lauder's ReNutriv Skin Care Line. In
addition, she has a lipstick named after her, Elizabeth Pink, the
profits of which go to the Breast Cancer Foundation.
Since her breakup with Grant, she has been linked with
multi-millionaire American film producer Stephen Bing and American
millionaire Ted Forstmann. She is engaged to half-Indian,
half-German Arun Nayar, the playboy son of a Bombay textile
millionaire, whom she has been seeing since 2003 and who obtained a
divorce from his Italian wife, Valentina Pedroni, in early 2005. On
April 4, 2002, she gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley,
fathered by Bing, who initially denied paternity. DNA tests
confirmed that he was the father. Damian was baptized a Roman
Catholic, as Elizabeth Hurley has been contemplating converting to
Catholicism for more than a decade but has not yet officially done
so; having a child out of wedlock is frowned on by Catholics.
She has homes in London, in Ampney Crucis, a village in
Gloucestershire, England, and Beverly Hills, California. The Daily
Mail 2004 Rich List put her fortune at an estimated £17 million. She
said she gets her "hot date" look by eating a lot of Watercress
Soup. Elizabeth's dress size is (US) 6 (UK 8 EU 38)
In April of 2005 her beachwear line Elizabeth Hurley Beach debuted
in select Saks Fifth Avenue stores in the United States, Harrod's in
the UK and in various other locations worldwide.
Elizabeth Hurley is apparently a favorite of director David Yates to
play Bellatrix Lestrange in the upcoming film adaptation of Harry
Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007 .
Another interesting fact is that Hurley has twelve piercings in her
ears and a pierced nose. She says the Estée Lauder people do a good
job of covering them. |
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