Education
Wanting to be a dancer, Elizabeth 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.
Wanting to be a dancer, Elizabeth 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.
Actress (films) Die Tote Stadt, 1987, Rowing with the Wind, 1988, Bloody Atlantic, 1991, The Orchid House, 1991, Passenger 57, 1992, El Largo Invierno, 1992, Beyond Bedlam, 1993, Goldeneye, 1995, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, 1995, Dangerous Ground, 1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997, Permanent Midnight, 1998, Edtv, 1999, My Favorite Martian, 1999, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 1999, The Weight of Water, 2000, Bedazzled, 2000, Double Whammy, 2001, Serving Sarah, 2002; (TV movies) Act of Will, 1989, Death Has A Bad Reputation, 1990, The Orchid House, 1991, Sharpe's Eneny, 1994, The Shamrock Conspiracy, 1995, Samson and Delilah, 1996, Harrison Cry of the City, 1996; (TV series) Aria, 1987, Inspector Morse, 1988, Cristabel, 1989, Rumpole and the Barrow Boy, 1989, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, 1992, Sharpe II, 1995; host (TV special) The World of James Bond, 1995; actor, executive producer (films) Method, 2004; producer (films) Extreme Measures, 1996, Mickey Blue Eyes, 1999.
She believes that religion is for people who believe in hell; Spirituality is for those who've been there.
Quotations: «I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.»
Hurley always wanting to be a dancer so She 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) (TV). 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.