Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965 in Basingstoke, England), more generally known as Liz Hurley, is a British actress and model. She has been associated with the cosmetics company Estée Lauder since 1995, when they gave Hurley her first modelling job at the age of 29. Since then they have featured her as a representative and model for their products, especially perfumes such as Sensuous, Intuition, and Pleasures.
As an actress, her best-known film roles to date have been as Vanessa Kensington in Mike Myers' hit spy comedy, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997), and as the Devil in the remake of Bedazzled (2000). From 2015 to 2018 she starred in the E! original drama series The Royals.
Hurley was a working actress in Britain but wasn't especially well-known until, in 1994, she wore a very revealing Versace dress to the premiere of her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant's film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hurley wasn't even in the film, but she and the dress (or, as the papers called it, "That Dress") stole the show and became a worldwide sensation — and a defining moment for Gianni Versace's career as well as her own.
Prominent acting roles:
- Passenger 57 (1992) as Sabrina Ritchie
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) as Vanessa Kensington
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
- My Favorite Martian (1999) as Brace Channing
- EDtv (1999) as Jill
- Bedazzled (2000) as the Devil
- Serving Sara (2002) as Sara Moore
- Father Christmas Is Back (2021) as Joanna Christmas
- Inspector Morse episode "Last Seen Wearing" (1988) as Julia
- Wonder Woman (2011 pilot) (2011) as Veronica Cale
- Gossip Girl (2011-12) as Diana Payne
- The Tomorrow People (2013) as Alice (voice)
- The Royals (2015-18) as Queen Helena
- Runaways (2019) as Morgan le Fay
