Elle Macpherson Image Collection
by Abbey on Aug.17, 2010, under Actress, Gallery, Model, updates
Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1963) is an Australian model, actress, and businesswoman. She is perhaps best known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s. Elle is also known as the founder and primary model for a series of business ventures including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and “The Body”, a line of skin care products. According to Forbes, Macpherson possesses assets around £60 million. Elle became the host and executive producer of Britain’s Next Top Model in 2010.
By the age of 17, Elle enrolled at Sydney modeling agency Chadwick’s. Before beginning her college studies, she visited the United States with the intent of spending one year doing modeling work in order to earn money to pay for her college education. Elle traveled to New York City, where she initially signed up with the Click Model Management company. This became the beginning of a 25-year stay in modelling work.
Elle’s modelling career began in 1982 with a television commercial for Tab which established her as a “girl next door” figure in Australia. By 1986, Time magazine had already put her on the cover. By that time, she had also appeared on the covers of Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and Playboy.
Already possessing some widespread name recognition, Elle cemented her high profile through frequent appearances in Elle, where she appeared in every issue for six straight years. During that time, and at the age of 21, she married Gilles Bensimon, the creative director of Elle.
Eventually she gained even more exposure through Sports Illustrated magazine’s annual Swimsuit Issue. Elle appeared on the cover a record five times: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006. Her popularity had reached such a level that Australian government offered her a position on its tourist commission as an unofficial ambassador.
She made her movie debut playing an artist’s model in the 1994 Sirens, which also starred Hugh Grant, Sam Neill, Tara Fitzgerald, Kate Fischer, and Portia de Rossi. Macpherson gained nine kg (20 lbs.) to disguise her athletic frame for the period role. After Sirens, Macpherson followed with a two-year series of acting roles, appearing in films such as Woody Allen’s Alice, Batman & Robin alongside George Clooney, The Edge with Anthony Hopkins, and The Mirror Has Two Faces with Barbra Streisand.
Source: Wikipedia
