Jerry Hall
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Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress. She began modeling in the 1970s and became one of the most sought-after models in the world.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She transitioned into acting, appearing in the 1989 film Batman. Hall was the long-term partner of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, with whom she has four children. She was the fourth wife of Rupert Murdoch until they divorced in 2022.
Early lifeEdit
Hall was born in Gonzales, Texas, to Marjorie (née Sheffield),<ref name="thegenealogist1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a medical records librarian, and John P. Hall. She is of English, Irish, and Dutch descent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Hall graduated from North Mesquite High School early at 16. While in high school, she also took classes at Eastfield College in archery, tennis, and gymnastics.Template:Cn
She has a twin sister, Terry, whose jobs have included working in a photography and printmaking shop, real-estate investing, and real-estate broker. They have three older sisters, including Rosy Hall, one of the first Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In the TV series Who Do You Think You Are?, Hall discovered that she was descended from Humphrey Best, an associate of American pioneer Daniel Boone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
ModelingEdit
Jerry Hall and her twin sister Terry were in the French Riviera sunbathing on a Saint Tropez beach when fashion agent Claude Haddad discovered them.<ref name=autogenerated1>Andersen, p. 330.</ref> She moved to Paris, where she shared an apartment with singer Grace Jones and Jessica Lange. Her modeling career began when she appeared in the guise of a mermaid on the cover of Roxy Music's album Siren (1975).Template:Cn
By 1977, Hall had been on 40 magazine covers, including Italian Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She was earning modeling fees in excess of $1,000 per day.<ref name=autogenerated1/> Her long, blonde hair and height of six feet quickly made her one of the most visible and photographed models of the day.Template:Cn
In 2016, Hall won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fashion Group International Dallas.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Hall was also a muse for artists Francesco Clemente, Ed Ruscha, and Lucian Freud. Hall modeled for Andy Warhol many times.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ActingEdit
Hall acted in Urban Cowboy (1980) and director Tim Burton's Batman (1989).
She made her professional stage debut playing Cherie in a revival of Bus Stop (a role played by Marilyn Monroe in the film adaptation) in the Theaterfest summer stock (hosted at Montclair State University) in July 1988.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She reprised the role for her London West End stage début in 1990 at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1990, she joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
She featured in commercials for Bovril.
Hall played the role of Miss Scarlett in the 1993 British television show Cluedo and in TV series, The Detectives. In the early 2000s, she appeared as Mrs. Robinson in a Broadway production of The Graduate. Hall appeared as herself in the documentary Being Mick (2001). She appeared in Brighton in the play Picasso's Women in 2002.
Hall was presented with the Guinness World Record in February 2004 for making the most musical appearances in a single night; she performed in six shows before 9,124 theatregoers in London's West End.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
In 2005, Hall appeared on the West End stage playing Mother Lord in the first London production of Cole Porter's High Society. Hall provided the voice for Sister Penelope in the British cartoon Popetown first screened in New Zealand during the year. In 2007, Hall guest-starred on the British TV show Hotel Babylon. She has also appeared in the BBC comedy series French and Saunders.
In June 2012, Hall made a one-week appearance with David Soul at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in a reprise of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated play Love Letters by A. R. Gurney. On September 10, 2012, Hall was announced as a contestant for the tenth series of the British dance show Strictly Come Dancing. Her professional partner was Anton du Beke. She was the second celebrity to be eliminated from the competition.
Her autobiography, Jerry Hall: My Life in Pictures, was published in 2010.
Other venturesEdit
In 2000, Hall was a judge for the Whitbread Prize. She argued for Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2005, Hall was at the center of Kept, a reality show based on her search for a kept man.
In 2010, she sold her art collection through Sotheby's.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> Four years later, she performed at Glastonbury. She wrote music and lyrics to original country and western music.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Hall started dating musician Bryan Ferry in 1975, leaving him for Mick Jagger in 1977.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Hall and Jagger lived together at Downe House, Richmond Hill, in Greater London, which Jagger purchased in the early 1990s.Template:Citation needed They separated in August 1999.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Jagger and Hall held a Hindu wedding ceremony on November 21, 1990, in Bali, Indonesia.<ref>Andersen, p. 396.</ref> The putative marriage was later declared null and void ab initio by the High Court of England and Wales in 1999, ruling that the "marriage" was not legally valid according to either Indonesian or English law.<ref name=Guardian1999Waybackmachine>Template:Citation</ref><ref name=BBC1999Waybackmachine>Template:Cite news</ref> The couple have four children together: Elizabeth Scarlett (born 1984), James Leroy (born 1985), Georgia May (born 1992), and Gabriel Luke (born 1997).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> James had a twin that died in utero when Hall was five months pregnant.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On March 4, 2016, Hall married media business magnate Rupert Murdoch in a ceremony at the Church of England church of St Bride's, Fleet Street,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> eight weeks after announcing their engagement with a listing in Murdoch's The Times newspaper.<ref name=engagesmh>Template:Cite news</ref> Hall filed for divorce on July 1, 2022, citing irreconcilable differences;<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the divorce was finalized in August 2022.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Hall is dyslexic.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
External linksEdit
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