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Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and film producer.
Early life and family
Styler was born in
Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H ...
, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker. When Styler was two years old, she was hit by a van. She received severe facial injuries that left her badly scarred and required several plastic surgery operations up until the age of 18. Her classmates nicknamed her "scarface", which caused her to feel for many years that she was "not a very attractive person". She attended
North Bromsgrove High School, where one of her teachers was the singer-songwriter
Clifford T. Ward.
Acting career
Styler trained at the
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School is a drama school in Bristol, England. The institution provides training in acting and production for careers in film, television and theatre.
BOVTS is an affiliate of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. ...
and went on to appear in various period
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productions. She joined the
Royal Shakespeare Company, in which she played multiple major roles. Her theatre credits also include ''
The Vagina Monologues
''The Vagina Monologues'' is an episodic play written in 1996 by Eve Ensler which developed and premiered at HERE Arts Center, Off-Off-Broadway in New York and was followed by an Off-Broadway run in at Westside Theatre. The play explores c ...
'', ''Twin Spirits'', and ''The Seagull''.
She has appeared in many British television series such as ''
The Mayor of Casterbridge
''The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character'' is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in ...
'' and ''
The Scold's Bridle'', and in the United States television shows ''
Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
'', ''
The Night Of
''The Night Of'' is a 2016 American eight-part crime drama television miniseries based on the first season of ''Criminal Justice'', a 2008 British series. The miniseries was written by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian (based on the original ' ...
'', ''
Friends'' (S8 Ep10), and ''
Falling Water''.
Film work includes
Lifetime Television
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward ...
's ''
Living Proof'' and
Paul Haggis
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners ''Million Dollar Baby'' (2004) and ...
' ''
The Next Three Days
''The Next Three Days'' is a 2010 American action thriller film written and directed by Paul Haggis and starring Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks. It was released in the United States on November 19, 2010, and was filmed on location in Pitt ...
''. Styler has also made seven mind-body fitness DVDs released by
Gaia, Inc.
Film production
In the mid-nineties Styler established Xingu Films, a production company dedicated to supporting new talent, such as
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchi ...
,
Dito Montiel
Orlandito Montiel is an American author, filmmaker, and musician.
Early Career & Music
Born in New York City, Montiel was active in the early '80s New York hardcore punk scene when he was vocalist for Queens-based Major Conflict. Later, he wou ...
and
Duncan Jones
Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (born 30 May 1971) is a British film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Moon'' (2009), ''Source Code'' (2011), ''Warcraft'' (2016), and ''Mute'' (2018). For ''Moon'', ...
. In late July 2008 it was announced that Xingu had optioned ''American Reaper'', an upcoming
graphic novel
A graphic novel is a long-form, fictional work of sequential art. The term ''graphic novel'' is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized work, though this practice is highly contested by comic scholars and industry ...
written by
Pat Mills
Patrick Eamon Mills (born 1949) is an English comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since. He has been called "the godfather ...
, who would also write the screenplay.
Styler has produced and co-directed several award-winning documentaries and feature films, including
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchi ...
's ''
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' is a 1998 British black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Steven Mackint ...
'' and ''
Snatch'';
Duncan Jones
Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones (born 30 May 1971) is a British film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films ''Moon'' (2009), ''Source Code'' (2011), ''Warcraft'' (2016), and ''Mute'' (2018). For ''Moon'', ...
' ''
Moon
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''; and
Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was a British television and film director and producer.
Apted began working in television and directed the '' Up'' documentary series (1964–2019). He later directed '' Coal Miner's ...
's ''
Moving the Mountain'', which won the 1994 International Independent Documentary Award.
After moving to New York, Styler co-founded the production company
Maven Pictures with
Celine Rattray
Celine Rattray (born 1975) is an English film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for '' The Kids Are All Right''. In 2020, she and Trudie Styl ...
in 2011. Their first feature, ''
Girl Most Likely
''Girl Most Likely'' is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Based on a screenplay by Michelle Morgan, the film stars Kristen Wiig as a playwright who stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her e ...
'', starred
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Carroll Wiig (; born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Born in Canandaigua, New York, she was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York. She moved to Los Angeles, where she jo ...
; closely followed by ''
Filth
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Common uses
* Dirt, unclean matter
* Police officer, a pejorative in British slang
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Filth'' (film), a 2013 film based on the novel
* ''Filth'', an alternative title for ''S ...
'', starring
James McAvoy
James McAvoy (; born 21 April 1979) is a Scottish actor. He made his acting debut as a teen in '' The Near Room'' (1995) and appeared mostly on television until 2003, when his feature film career began. His notable television work includes ...
; ''
Black Nativity'' starring
Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.
After making his f ...
; ''
Ten Thousand Saints'' starring
Ethan Hawke
Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor and film director. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. Hawke has directed three feature films, three off-Broadway plays, and a doc ...
; and ''
American Honey'' starring
Shia LaBeouf
Shia Saide LaBeouf (; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series ''Even Stevens'', a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and ...
, which won
Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) at the
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films o ...
in 2016. Styler's 2017 directorial debut, ''
Freak Show
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'', is based on the New York Times bestseller by
James St. James, and stars
AnnaSophia Robb
AnnaSophia Robb (born December 8, 1993) is an American actress, model, and singer. She began as a child actress on television, making her leading debut as the titular role in '' Samantha: An American Girl Holiday'' (2004). She made her feature ...
,
Alex Lawther, and
Bette Midler. ''Freak Show'' debuted at the 2017
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the fest ...
.
In 2011, she and producer
Celine Rattray
Celine Rattray (born 1975) is an English film producer who co-founded the production company Maven Pictures. In 2010, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for '' The Kids Are All Right''. In 2020, she and Trudie Styl ...
founded Maven Pictures, a motion picture development, production, and financing company.
Philanthropy
With her husband, Sting, Styler started in 1989 the
Rainforest Foundation Fund
The Rainforest Foundation Fund is a charitable foundation founded in 1987 and dedicated to drawing attention to rainforests and defending the rights of indigenous peoples living there.
The fund and its three sister organizations (Rainforest Fou ...
, an organisation devoted to protecting rainforests and their indigenous peoples, and since 1991 she has produced regular
Rock for the Rainforest Rock for the Rainforest is a biennial (formerly annual) benefit concert held by the Rainforest Foundation Fund and Rainforest Foundation US, hosted by the organizations' founders Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, since 1991. In addition to the annu ...
benefits at Carnegie Hall. As a
UNICEF
UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...
Ambassador, Styler has also raised millions for their projects around the globe.
In 2008, it was reported that Styler donated £10,000 into the charitable
Ama Sumani cancer fund. Sumani was terminally ill with cancer and unable to afford treatment in her native Ghana, but had been deported from a Cardiff hospital after the expiry of her visa. Sumani died on 19 March 2008.
Styler is also a patron of the
Elton John AIDS Foundation
The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) is a nonprofit organization, established by rock musician Sir Elton John in 1992 in the United States and 1993 in the United Kingdom to support innovative HIV prevention, education programs, direct care a ...
.
Personal life
Styler married rock musician
Sting at Camden Registry Office on 20 August 1992, and the couple had their wedding blessed two days later in the twelfth-century parish church of St Andrew in
Great Durnford,
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...
, south-west England.
In 1982, Sting separated from his first wife, actress
Frances Tomelty
Frances Tomelty (born 6 October 1948) is a Northern Irish actress whose numerous television credits include ''Strangers'' (1978–1979), '' Testament of Youth'' (1979), ''Inspector Morse'' (1988), ''Cracker'' (1993), '' The Amazing Mrs Pritchard ...
,
following an affair with Styler; Tomelty and Sting divorced in 1984. The split was controversial; as ''
The Independent
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'' reported in 2006, Tomelty "just happened to be Trudie's best friend (Sting and Frances lived next door to Trudie in Bayswater, west London, for several years before the two of them became lovers)".
Sting and Styler have four children including Brigitte Michael ("
Mickey
Mickey is a given name and nickname, almost always masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Michael, and occasionally a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include:
People Given name or nickname Men
* Mickey Andrews (bor ...
", born 19 January 1984), Jake (24 May 1985),
Eliot Paulina (nicknamed "Coco", 30 July 1990), and Giacomo Luke (17 December 1995). Coco is a singer who now goes by the name Eliot Sumner, and was the founder and lead singer of the group
I Blame Coco. Giacomo Luke is the inspiration behind the name of
Kentucky Derby–winning horse
Giacomo.
Filmography
Producer
* ''Boys from Brazil'' (1993)
* ''Moving the Mountain'' (1994)
* ''
The Grotesque'' (1995) a.k.a. ''Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets'' (USA) a.k.a. ''Grave Indiscretion''
* ''
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' is a 1998 British black comedy crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, produced by Matthew Vaughn and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Steven Ma ...
'' (1998: executive producer) a.k.a. ''Two Smoking Barrels'' (USA)
* ''
Snatch'' (2000: executive producer)
* ''
Greenfingers
''Greenfingers'' is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on the true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England, a story publis ...
'' (2000) a.k.a. ''Jailbuds''
* ''
The Sweatbox'' (2002) and also directed
* ''
Cheeky'' (2003)
* ''
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints'' (2006)
* ''
Alpha Male
In biology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking individual is so ...
'' (2006)
* ''
Moon
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'' (2009)
* ''
The Son of No One'' (2011: executive producer)
* ''
Girl Most Likely
''Girl Most Likely'' is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Based on a screenplay by Michelle Morgan, the film stars Kristen Wiig as a playwright who stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her e ...
'' (2012)
* ''
Filth
Filth or The Filth may refer to:
Common uses
* Dirt, unclean matter
* Police officer, a pejorative in British slang
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Filth'' (film), a 2013 film based on the novel
* ''Filth'', an alternative title for ''S ...
'' (2013)
* ''
Black Nativity'' (2013: executive producer)
* ''
Still Alice'' (2014: executive producer)
* ''
10,000 Saints'' (2015)
* ''
Miss You Already'' (2015: executive producer)
* ''
American Honey'' (2016: executive producer)
* ''For Grace'' (2016: executive producer)
* ''
Anatomy of Violence'' (2016: executive producer)
* ''
Novitiate'' (2017)
* ''
Freak Show
A freak show, also known as a creep show, is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, those with ...
'' (2017)
* ''
Kings'' (2017)
* ''
The Kindergarten Teacher'' (2018)
* ''
Wildling'' (2018)
* ''
Boarding School'' (2018)
* ''
Skin
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Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different de ...
'' (2018)
* ''
Driveways
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Driveways rarely have traffic lights, but some that bear ...
'' (2019)
* ''
Human Capital'' (2019)
* ''
With/In: Volume 1'' (2021)
* ''
With/In: Volume 2'' (2021)
* ''
Silent Night
"Silent Night" (german: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", links=no, italic=no) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an ...
'' (2021)
* ''
A Mouthful of Air'' (2021)
* ''
Infinite Storm
''Infinite Storm'' is a 2022 American drama adventure film directed by Małgorzata Szumowska, co-directed by Michał Englert, and with a screenplay by Josh Rollins, based on the article ''High Places: Footprints in the Snow Lead to an Emotiona ...
'' (2022)
Actress (selected)
*''
Poldark
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'' (1977)
*''
The Mayor of Casterbridge
''The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character'' is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in ...
'' (1978)
* ''
Funny Man'' (1981)
* ''
The Bell'' (1982)
* ''
Cockles'' (1984)
*''
Miss Marple
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'' (1984: ''
The Body in the Library
''The Body in the Library'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.0 ...
'') as Josephine Turner
*''
The American Bride'' (1986)
*''
Fair Game'' (1988)
*''The Scold's Bridle'' (1998)
*''
Midsomer Murders'' (1999 episode: "Strangler's Wood")
*''
Me Without You'' (2002)
*''
Friends'' (2001 season 8, episode 10: "
The One with Monica's Boots") as herself (guest star)
*''Empire'' (2005)
*''
Love Soup
''Love Soup'' is a British television comedy drama produced by the BBC and first screened on BBC One in the autumn of 2005. It stars Tamsin Greig as Alice Chenery (a role written especially for her) and Michael Landes as Gil Raymond (Series 1 on ...
'' (2005)
*''
Alpha Male
In biology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system. A dominant higher-ranking individual is so ...
'' (2006)
*''
The Vicar of Dibley
''The Vicar of Dibley'' is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 1 January 2007. It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes ...
'' (2007 ''
Comic Relief
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Definition
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'' special: "Wife Swap")
*''
Living Proof'' (2008)
*''
Paris Connections'' (2010)
*''A Dish of Tea with Dr. Johnson'' (
West End, Edinburgh
The West End is an affluent district of Edinburgh, Scotland, which along with the rest of the New Town and Old Town forms central Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Site. The area boasts several of the city's hotels, restaurants, i ...
, tour 2011)
*''
Pose'' (2019)
*''
With/In: Volume 2'' (2021)
Director
* ''
The Sweatbox'' (co-directed with
John-Paul Davidson) (unreleased)
* ''
Freak Show
A freak show, also known as a creep show, is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, those with ...
'' (2016)
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Styler, Trudie
1954 births
Alumni of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
English women activists
English television actresses
Living people
People from Bromsgrove
Sting (musician)
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
English film actresses
Actresses from Worcestershire
HIV/AIDS activists
English women film directors
Sumner musical family