Elizabeth Hurley(I)
- Actress
- Producer
Elizabeth Jane Hurley was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Angela
Mary (Titt), a teacher, and Roy Leonard Hurley, an army major. Wanting
to be a dancer, Hurley went to ballet boarding school at 12, but soon
returned home. When it came time to go to college, Hurley won a
scholarship to the London Studio Centre which taught courses for dance
and theater. Soon, Hurley wore the punk rock look with pink hair and a
nose ring, but to get work, she had to change her image to one that was
castable. After college, Hurley worked in the theater and made her
screen debut in Aria (1987). Roles in
Television and a film,
Rowing with the Wind (1988), which
included a young actor named
Hugh Grant, soon followed. European
films followed her appearance in the BBC serial
Christabel (1988). Her film debut
in a Hollywood movie was in the
Wesley Snipes action drama
Passenger 57 (1992). When
Hugh Grant was picked up with
Divine Brown, Hurley became
headline news. Added to this was the fact that she was the model
representing top cosmetics house
Estée Lauder, and there was nowhere Hurley
could go to get away from the press. In 1994, Hurley and
Hugh Grant set up Simian Films in
partnership with Castle Rock Entertainment. As Head of Development,
Hurley found the script and produced her first film
Extreme Measures (1996), which
stars Hugh Grant.
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