Elizabeth Jane Hurley was born on 10 June 1965 and is an English actress and model.
38 Facts About Elizabeth Hurley
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In 1994, Elizabeth Hurley accompanied Hugh Grant to the London premiere of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media attention.
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Elizabeth Hurley has been associated with the cosmetics company Estee Lauder since the company gave Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29.
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Elizabeth Hurley was born on 10 June 1965 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, as the younger daughter of Angela Mary and Roy Leonard Hurley.
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Elizabeth Hurley's father was a major in the Royal Army Educational Corps; her mother was a teacher at Kempshott Junior School.
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Elizabeth Hurley has an older sister, Kathleen, and a younger brother, Michael Hurley.
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Elizabeth Hurley attended Harriet Costello School, a mixed secondary in Basingstoke, and, while in her teens, she became involved with punk fashion, dyeing her hair pink and piercing her nose.
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Elizabeth Hurley reportedly associated with New Age travellers in her youth.
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Elizabeth 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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Elizabeth Hurley was expelled from the school in 1986 after going AWOL to a Greek island.
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Elizabeth Hurley subsequently appeared in the movies Passenger 57, EDtv, Bedazzled, Serving Sara and Dangerous Ground.
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When Hugh Grant founded and became the director of Simian Films in 1994, Elizabeth Hurley was credited as one of the producers for the company's two Grant vehicles, Extreme Measures and Mickey Blue Eyes.
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In 1988, Elizabeth 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.
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In late 1988, Elizabeth Hurley portrayed the title character in a four-part television drama, Christabel.
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Elizabeth Hurley wore a dress and has appeared at premieres.
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In 2011, Elizabeth Hurley filmed a guest star role in the series pilot of NBC's Wonder Woman as the villain Veronica Cale.
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In July 2011, it was announced that Elizabeth Hurley would join the fifth season of Gossip Girl for a multi-episode arc.
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Elizabeth Hurley played Marvel Comics villain Morgan le Fay in the final season of the Hulu show Runaways, released in 2019.
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In January 2021, Elizabeth Hurley appeared as a guest judge in the first episode of the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.
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In 1995, with no prior modelling experience, Elizabeth Hurley was introduced as an Estee Lauder spokesmodel.
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Elizabeth Hurley was replaced as the face of Estee Lauder by Carolyn Murphy in 2001.
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In 2008, Elizabeth Hurley was unveiled as the seasonal campaign face for Blackglama mink.
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Elizabeth Hurley has appeared three times on the cover of British Vogue.
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Elizabeth Hurley supported The Prince's Trust by co-presenting the 2003 Fashion Rocks event in its aid and helping launch the Get Into Cooking youth initiative in 2004.
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Elizabeth Hurley is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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Elizabeth Hurley is patron of the City Veterans Network, a charity based in the City of London that links former members of the Armed Forces to opportunities for rehabilitation and employment.
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In June 2016, Elizabeth Hurley expressed her support for the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and urged the public to vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum.
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Elizabeth Hurley was a relatively unknown actress when she met Hugh Grant in 1987 while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento.
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In 1994, as Grant became the focus of international media attention due to the success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Elizabeth 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.
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Elizabeth Hurley stood by Grant and accompanied him to the premiere of his film Nine Months.
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On 4 April 2002, Elizabeth Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Elizabeth Hurley.
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The baby's father, American businessman Steve Bing, denied paternity by claiming that he and Elizabeth Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001.
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Elizabeth Hurley is godmother to Patsy Kensit and Liam Gallagher's son Lennon and two of David and Victoria Beckham's sons Brooklyn and Romeo.
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In late 2002, Elizabeth Hurley began dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who has run a small software company named Direction Software LLP since 1998.
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Elizabeth Hurley lived on a 400-acre organic farm in Barnsley, Gloucestershire, with her son and husband.
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In December 2010, Elizabeth Hurley announced that she and her husband had separated several months earlier.
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Elizabeth Hurley filed for divorce on 2 April 2011, citing Nayar's "unreasonable behaviour" as the cause, grounds for divorce under English law.
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In March 2018, her nephew Miles Elizabeth Hurley was stabbed repeatedly in the back by a group of men in Wandsworth, south London.