Elizabeth Hurley
Actor | Producer
Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media notice.
The highlight of Hurley's professional life has been her association with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder. The company gave Hurley her first modeling job at the age of 29 and has used her as a model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. Her best known cinematic work was as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedies, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Hurley currently models and designs an eponymous beachwear line.
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Elizabeth Jane Hurley is an English model and actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s. In 1994, as Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hurley accompanied him to the film's Los Angeles premiere in a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins, which gained her instant media notice.
The highlight of Hurley's professional life has been her association with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder. The company gave Hurley her first modeling job at the age of 29 and has used her as a model for its products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures, since 1995. Her best known cinematic work was as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedies, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999). Hurley currently models and designs an eponymous beachwear line.
Hurley was born as a middle child in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Angela and Roy Hurley. Her Irish father was a Major in the British Army, while her Anglican mother was a teacher at Kempshott Infant School. She has an older sister, Kate, and a younger brother Michael James Hurley.
Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Hugh Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. While Hurley was his girlfriend, Grant was embroiled in an international scandal for soliciting the services of a female prostitute in 1995. Hurley stood by him and accompanied Grant to the premiere of his movie Nine Months. After 13 years together, Hurley and Grant announced an "amicable" split in May 2000. Hurley lived in a London home owned by Grant after the break-up. She invited Grant to her wedding in 2007, but he chose not to attend.
On 4 April 2002, Hurley gave birth to a son, Damian Charles Hurley. The baby's father, Steve Bing, denied paternity by alleging that he and Hurley had a brief, non-exclusive relationship in 2001. A DNA test, however, established Bing as the child's father. In late 2002, Hurley started dating Indian textile heir Arun Nayar, who runs a small software company since 1998. On 2 March 2007, Hurley and Nayar married at Sudeley Castle and then had a second wedding at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India. Show less...
Filmography - Acting
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An Elephant's Journey (2018)
As: Aunt Sarah
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Richard Boddington
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Tertius Meintjes | Louis Minnaar | Sam Ashe Arnold | Hlomla Dandala
Viktor (2014)
As: Alexandra Ivanov
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Philippe Martinez
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Gérard Depardieu | Eli Danker | Evgeniya Akhremenko | Jean Baptiste Fillon
Made in Romania (2010)
As: Herself
"Made In Romania" is the story of a producer who is given the chance to realize his dream project; to film an adaptation of an obscure, beautifully written Victorian novel, "The Tides of Reason". Disillusioned after years of making low budget genre films, the producer readily accepts the demands of his less than legitimate financiers. Namely, the production be filmed entirely in Romania to take advantage ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Guy J. Louthan
Stars: Jason Flemyng | Danny Huston | Elizabeth Hurley | Jennifer Tilly | Joe Shaw
Valentino The Last Emperor (2008)
Film which travels inside the singular world of one of Italy's most famous fashion designers, Valentino Garavani, documenting the colourful and dramatic closing act of his celebrated career and capturing the end of an era in global fashion. However, at the heart of the film is a love story - the unique relationship between Valentino and his business partner and companion of 50 years, Giancarlo ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Matt Tyrnauer
Stars: Nati Abascal | Doutzen Kroes | Giorgio Armani | Valentino Garavani | Giancarlo Giammetti
Method (2004)
As: Rebecca Fairbanks
The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Duncan Roy
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Jeremy Sisto | Oliver Tobias | John Barrowman | Carmen du Sautoy
Serving Sara (2002)
As: Sara Moore
Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler (Perry) is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore (Hurley) with divorce papers.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Matthew Perry | Cedric the Entertainer | Bruce Campbell | Vincent Pastore
Dawg (2002)
As: Anna Lockheart
To inherit a million dollars, an egotistical man must find the women he's betrayed and convince them to forgive him.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Victoria Hochberg
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Denis Leary | NiCole Robinson
Double Whammy (2001)
As: Dr. Ann Beamer
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Chris Noth | Victor Argo | Luis Guzmán | Denis Leary
Bedazzled (2000)
As: The Devil
Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as could be expected, the Devil must put her own little twist on each his fantasies.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Orlando Jones | Frances O'Connor | Brendan Fraser | Paul Adelstein
The Weight of Water (2000)
As: Adaline Gunne
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Catherine McCormack | Elizabeth Hurley | Josh Lucas | Sarah Polley | Sean Penn
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
As: Vanessa Kensington
When diabolical genius, Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo’, Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself – with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell – to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions and saves the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jay Roach
Stars: Mike Myers | Michael York | Heather Graham | Robert Wagner | Rob Lowe
EDtv (1999)
As: Jill
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Ron Howard
Stars: Sally Kirkland | Woody Harrelson | Martin Landau | Matthew McConaughey | Jenna Elfman
My Favorite Martian (1999)
As: Brace Channing
News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Christopher Lloyd | Wallace Shawn | Jeff Daniels | Daryl Hannah
Permanent Midnight (1998)
As: Sandra
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who listens patiently to Stahl's flashback. Other women in Stahl's life are his British wife Sandra and his agent Vola.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: David Veloz
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Owen Wilson | Ben Stiller | Maria Bello | Jay Paulson
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
As: Vanessa Kensington
As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Jay Roach
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Mimi Rogers | Mike Myers | Michael York | Robert Wagner
Dangerous Ground (1997)
As: Karen
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Darrell James Roodt
Stars: Ice Cube | Elizabeth Hurley | Ving Rhames | Ron Smerczak | Thokozani Nkosi
Mad Dogs And Englishmen (1995)
As: Antonia
Gorgeous Antonia (Elizabeth Hurley) is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike (C. Thomas Howell), a tough drifter who helps her score more smack. Although they're not attracted to each other initially, Antonia and Mike eventually give in to their growing feelings for each other. But this leads to a dilemma: How does Mike help the woman he now loves ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Henry Cole
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Christopher Adamson | C. Thomas Howell | Joss Ackland | Marcus Bentley
Sharpe's Enemy (1994)
As: Lady Farthingdale
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage for ransom. Sharpe is given the 60th Rifles and a Rocket troop, as well as his majority to rescue the women. But while Sharpe may be able to deal with his old enemy, he has yet to face a newer threat, the ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Tom Clegg
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Sean Bean | Assumpta Serna | Daragh O'Malley | Hugh Fraser
Beyond Bedlam (1994)
As: Stephanie Lyell
An experiment gone awry places a neurologist (Elizabeth Hurley) and a homicide detective (Craig Fairbrass) in a psychopath's (Keith Allen) nightmarish world.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Vadim Jean
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Craig Fairbrass | Keith Allen | Jesse Birdsall | Craig Kelly
Passenger 57 (1992)
As: Sabrina Ritchie
An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Kevin Hooks
Stars: Tom Sizemore | Bruce Greenwood | Bruce Payne | Wesley Snipes | Alex Datcher
El largo invierno (1992)
In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Jaime Camino
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Jean Rochefort | Vittorio Gassman | Jacques Penot
Kill Cruise (1990)
As: Lou
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Peter Keglevic
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Jürgen Prochnow | Patsy Kensit | Franz Buchrieser
Death Has A Bad Reputation (1990)
As: Julia Latham
Adaptation from a novel by Frederick Forsyth.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Stars: Alan Howard | Elizabeth Hurley | Pamela Villoresi | Tony Lo Bianco | Gottfried John
Rowing With The Wind (1988)
As: Claire Clairmont
In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and for the next six years, as tragedy befalls those around her, she believes the personification of her imagination is the cause. Against this backdrop, ...
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Gonzalo Suárez
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | Hugh Grant | Lizzy McInnerny | Valentine Pelka
Aria (1987)
As: Marietta
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Bill Bryden | Robert Altman | Jean-Luc Godard | Derek Jarman | Franc Roddam | Nicolas Roeg | Ken Russell | Charles Sturridge | Julien Temple | Bruce Beresford
Stars: John Hurt | Elizabeth Hurley | Theresa Russell | Bridget Fonda | Buck Henry