Elle Macpherson

Elle Macpherson ( born March 29, 1963 in Killara, Australia; Eleanor Nancy Gow actually ) is an Australian actress and model. It is also known by the nickname The Body.

Life

After fourteen years of marriage, they separated Macpherson's parents and her mother married a short time later Neil Macpherson. She changed her previous surname Gow for her stepfather in Macpherson. In her childhood Macpherson spent much time with ballet. At eighteen, she began to study law at the University of Sydney. You abandoned his studies after a year when she was discovered while on vacation in Aspen (Colorado), from a modeling agency.

The breakthrough as a model Macpherson succeeded in 1982 in the women's magazine Elle. There, she was seen again on the cover in the next six years. 1985 Macpherson married French photographer Gilles Bensimon. The marriage lasted until 1989. 1986 they became more widely known through the photos in the U.S. magazine Sports Illustrated. In the same year appeared in TIME magazine a short biography titled The Big Elle. In this article it was declared (the body ) between TIME and "The Body ".

In 1994, she was seen on the side of top models like Kathy Ireland and Rachel Hunter on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. In the same year, she withdrew from the May issue of the men's magazine Playboy. In 1995, she chose the People Magazine 's 50 Most Beautiful People (50 Most Beautiful People ). In 1996 she founded together with four other top models (Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer ), the Fashion Café in New York City.

In 1994, she was in the film Sirens alongside Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald made ​​her film debut. For the role she had to put on 10 kg. In 1996, she starred in the film Love Jane Eyre by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli with. This is followed by small roles in the movies If Lucy Fell (1996 ), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and the action film Batman & Robin (1997 ) on the side of Hollywood stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney and Uma Thurman. In 1997, she had in the film drama Razor her first major role.

1999 Macpherson appeared in five episodes of the U.S. sitcom Friends on. In the series, she was Joey's roommate Janine Lecroix.

In 1998, their first son in New York to the World, whose father is the French banker Arpad Busson. Macpherson's second son was born in 2003.

In her native Australia Macpherson is very prominent. In 1999, she was the first Australian star, who was featured on a postage stamp.

Filmography

Quotes

• For modeling: "I'm too old for that. " (1999; German: I 'm too old for that. )