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. She moved to Paris where she shared an apartment with singer Grace Jones and Jessica Lange. Her modelling career began when she appeared, in the guise of a siren, on the cover of Roxy Music's album Siren. By 1977, Hall had been on 40 magazine covers including Italian Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She was earning modelling fees in excess of $1,000 per day. Her long blonde hair and height of six feet quickly made her one of the most visible and photographed models of the day. In 2016, Hall won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fashion Group International Dallas. Hall was also a muse for artists Francesco Clemente, Ed Ruscha and Lucian Freud. Hall modeled for Andy Warhol many times.
Acting
Hall acted in Urban Cowboy and appeared in director Tim Burton's Batman. Her 1990 LondonWest End stage début was playing Cherie in a revival of Bus Stop at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. In 1990, she joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin. She featured in commercials for Bovril. Hall played the role of Miss Scarlett in the British television showCluedo, and in the 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. 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. 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 showHotel 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 by A. R. Gurney, Love Letters. 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 ventures
In 2000, Hall was a judge for the Whitbread Prize. She argued for Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. In 2005, Hall was at the center of Kept, a reality show based on her search for a kept man. In 2010, Hall sold her art collection through Sotheby's. In 2014, Hall performed at Glastonbury. She wrote music and lyrics to original country and western music.
Personal life
Hall started dating musician Bryan Ferry in 1975, leaving him for Mick Jagger in 1977. Jagger and Hall held a marriage ceremony on November 21, 1990, in Bali, Indonesia. The putative marriage was later declared null by the High Court of England and Wales in London in 1999. The couple have four children together: Elizabeth Scarlett, James Leroy, Georgia May, and Gabriel Luke. The couple lived together at Downe House, Richmond Hill, in Greater London, which Jagger purchased in the early 1990s. Hall cited Jagger's infidelity as the cause of the break-up. In 2015, Hall was reported to have begun dating media business magnate Rupert Murdoch. The couple were seen in public together at the Rugby World Cup final on November 1, 2015. Hall and Murdoch announced their engagement with a listing in Murdoch's The Times newspaper on January 11, 2016. The couple married on March 4, 2016, at the Church of England church of St Bride, Fleet Street, and were seen together on the final show of American Idol on April 7, 2016.
