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. Soon Hurley would wear 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 Remando
al viento (1987), which included a young actor named Hugh Grant soon,
followed. European films followed her appearance in the BBC serial
"Christabel" (1988) (mini). 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
Estee Lauder, and there was no place 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. |