Rachel Hunter
Rachel Hunter | |
|---|---|
 Hunter in 2008 | |
| Born | 8 September 1969 |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 1986–Present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Modeling information | |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Hair color | Blonde |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Website | rachelhunter |
Rachel Hunter (born 8 September 1969) is a New Zealand model, actress, and the host of Imagination Television's Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty. She has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar. She has been on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice: in 1994 (alongside Kathy Ireland and Elle Macpherson) and in 2006 (alongside six other models).
Early life
Hunter was born on 9 September 1969 in Glenfield, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and educated at Glenfield College. Her parents divorced when she was still a child. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer, but at 13 became ill with toxoplasmosis, which curtailed her dancing ambitions.
Career
| External images | |
|---|---|
 Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 1994 | |
| Hunter's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover from February 2006 |
Modeling
Hunter began her career at age 16, modelling in France, Australia and New Zealand, appearing in Australian Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Australian Cosmopolitan and for various campaigns throughout New Zealand and Australia. She became the face of Tip Top Ice-Cream in New Zealand and was the "Trumpet Girl". She was quickly signed up to Ford Models and immediately embarked on a successful career, landing a Cover Girl cosmetics contract and becoming the spokesperson for the company for several years. Hunter rose to global prominence after posing as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 1989. She subsequently appeared on magazine covers, including Cosmopolitan and on the 1994 "Dream Team" cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue with other supermodels Elle MacPherson and Kathy Ireland, and again graced its cover, this time solo, 12 years later in 2006. Hunter also appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia, Australian Vogue, American and international editions of Elle and Dutch Harper's Bazaar.
Hunter posed nude for a cover-featured Playboy pictorial published in April 2004.
Hunter is signed to Ford Models in New York, Select Model Management in London, and Chadwick Models in Sydney.
Acting
Hunter first appeared on television in 1985 in an advertisement for the New Zealand ice cream brand Tip Top, promoting their "Trumpet" ice-cream.
Hunter guest starred in a 1997 episode of The Drew Carey Show as herself. She has appeared in several independent films, including 1999's A Walk in the Park and 2000's Two Shades of Blue, an erotic thriller with Marlee Matlin. She stars as a lesbian cook doling out relationship advice in the award-winning indie film La Cucina. She had a brief appearance as a sexy mother in Dennis Dugan's The Benchwarmers (2006) and also played a sultry, bikini-clad mother in the music video for Fountains of Wayne's 2003 song "Stacy's Mom".
Hunter was one of six celebrities in the inaugural cast of the American dance competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2005. She appeared on a 2005 celebrity episode of Lingo, where she and her partner Trista Rehn split $30,000 for charity. Hunter is an ambassador to The Born Free Foundation, and established the Rachel Hunter Lowland Gorilla Fund. Hunter also appeared as herself in the 2004 Christmas Special of The Vicar of Dibley. She also starred in Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008), The Perfect Assistant (2008), the science fiction TV movies Piranhaconda (2011) and Swamp Volcano, aka Miami Magma (2012).
She appeared as a judge on New Zealand's Got Talent from 2012 to 2013. In 2015, Hunter fronted her own television series titled Rachel Hunter's Tour of Beauty for TV One where she travelled the world to discover what beauty meant in various countries.
Personal life
In the late 1980s, Hunter was in a relationship with rock musician Kip Winger.
At the age of 21, Hunter met rock star Rod Stewart, 24 years her senior, in a Los Angeles nightclub. They married three months later at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California, on 15 December 1990. Together they have two children. Stewart and Hunter separated in January 1999 after eight years of marriage, and their divorce was finalised on 2 November 2006.
She had a year-long relationship with Canadian NHL ice hockey player Sean Avery in 2004,[citation needed] and in 2006 began a three-year relationship with Jarret Stoll, 13 years her junior, also a Canadian NHL player who played for, and won the Stanley Cup with, the Los Angeles Kings. Stoll proposed to Hunter in 2008 whilst he accompanied her on a trip home to her native New Zealand later that year and they were due to marry on 14 August 2009, but the wedding was called off by Stoll seven weeks prior to their wedding day.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Just a Little Harmless Sex | Marilyn | |
| 1999 | Two Shades of Blue | Susan Price | |
| Winding Roads | Kelly Simons | ||
| A Walk in the Park | Sally's Sister | ||
| 2000 | Tripfall | Gina Williams | |
| 2001 | MacArthur Park | Karen | |
| Pendulum | Amanda Reeve | ||
| Boys Klub | The Goddess | ||
| Rock Star | A.C.'s Wife | ||
| 2002 | Redemption of the Ghost | Gloria | |
| 2003 | Haunted Lighthouse | Widow Feeney | Short film |
| 2004 | El Padrino | Newscaster | |
| 2005 | You and Your Stupid Mate | Karen | |
| Freezerburn | Holly Hardin | ||
| 2006 | Final Move | Iris Quarrie | |
| I.R.A.: King of Nothing | British Intelligence Agent | ||
| The Benchwarmers | Hot Mother | ||
| Ozzie | Beth Morton | ||
| 2007 | Dead Write | Jade | Also associate producer |
| Mexican American | Jacqueline | ||
| 7-10 Split | Chiropracter | ||
| La Cucina | Jude | ||
| 2009 | Jordon Saffron: Taste This! | Nikki | |
| 2010 | The Brazen Bull | Detective Vinyec | |
| Black Widow | Dr. Laura | ||
| 2011 | A Matter of Justice | Nicole Ibiza | |
| 2013 | Madoff: Made Off with America | Mimi Mymen | |
| 2014 | Soul Mates | Carly |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Ford Super Model of the World | Host | Television special |
| 1993 | Bobby's World | Ms. Miller | Episode: "Bobby Ties the Knot" (voice) |
| 1994 | Shortland Street | Herself | Episode: "1.458" (uncredited) |
| 1995 | Mad About You | Herself | Episode: "Just My Dog" |
| 1996 | Very Important Pennis | Herself | Episode: "Very Important Pennis: Part Two" |
| 1997 | The Drew Carey Show | Herself | Episode: "Cap-Beer-Cino" |
| 1999 | Suddenly Susan | Meegan Garrity | Episode: "Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut" |
| 2000 | Best Actress | Fiona Covington | Television film |
| 2003 | Are You Hot? | Co-Host | 6 episodes |
| 2004 | The Real Gilligan's Island | Ginger Rachel | 5 episodes |
| The Vicar of Dibley | Herself | Episode: "Merry Christmas" | |
| 2005 | Larva | Hayley Anderson | Television film |
| Dancing with the Stars | Herself | 5 episodes | |
| Living with Fran | Herself | Episode: "Going to a Bar Mitzvah with Fran" | |
| 2006 | Mad TV | Herself | 2 episodes |
| Style Me | Judge | 8 episodes | |
| Make Me a Supermodel | Herself | 6 episodes | |
| Celebrity Paranormal Project | Herself | Episode: "Pearl" | |
| 2008 | The Perfect Assistant | Judith Manion | Television film |
| Confessions of a Go-Go Girl | Donna Mercer | Television film | |
| 2010 | Gravity | Shawna Rollins | Main cast; 10 episodes |
| 10 Things I Hate About You | Herself | Episode: "Too Much Information" | |
| 2011 | Miami Magma | Antoinette Vitrini | Television film |
| 2012 | Piranhaconda | Talia | Television film |
| New Zealand's Got Talent | Judge | 13 episodes | |
| RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | Guest Judge | Episode: "It Takes Two" | |
| 2015 | Her Infidelity | Lily Helms | Television film |
| 2017 | The Women Behind The Women: Behind Steel Dragon | Wife | Television film |
| 2023 | RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under | Guest Judge | Episode: "BMX Bitches" |
| 2026 | I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! | Herself | 9 episodes |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | "Broken Arrow" by Rod Stewart | Woman | Directed by Peter Nydrie |
| 2003 | "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne | Stacy's Mom | Directed by Chris Applebaum |
| 2006 | "Mojo" by Peeping Tom | Woman | Created by Matt McDermitt |
Dancing with the Stars
| Week # | Dance / Song | Judge's scores | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inaba | Goodman | Tonioli | |||
| 1 | Waltz / "Three Times a Lady" | 7 | 6 | 7 | No elimination |
| 2 | Rumba / "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" | 8 | 8 | 8 | Bottom two |
| 3 | Tango / "Toxic" | 8 | 9 | 9 | Safe |
| 4 | Samba / "Tequila" | 7 | 9 | 9 | Eliminated |
| Group Viennese Waltz / "I Got You Babe" | No scores given | ||||
References
- ↑ "Rachel's Tour of Beauty". Rachel's Tour of Beauty. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "SI Swimsuit Covers Through the Years". SI.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ "SI Swimsuit Covers Through the Years". SI.com. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- ↑ Sim, Keren (8 September 2015). "Happy birthday Rachel Hunter!". Woman's Day. Retrieved 9 September 2026.
- 1 2 Thomas, David. "Rachel reveals (almost) all". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ↑ "Today's birthdays". Otago Daily Times. 8 September 2026. p. 9 – via PressReader.
- ↑ Fox, Michael (9 September 2009). "Rachel Hunter's rise to the top". Stuff. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
- 1 2 "Rachel Hunter". FashionModelDirectory.com. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Rachel Hunter". New York Magazine. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Hunter among Playboy's best bunnies (+pics)". 31 January 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
- ↑ "Rachel Hunter". Playboy.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
- ↑ "Rachel Hunter hits the dance floor on US version of hit show". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
- ↑ "UB40 front man to judge New Zealand's Got Talent". 29 June 2012. New Zealand Herald. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ↑ "Winger: Gets Real". Sleaze Roxx. Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ "Chronicle column". The New York Times. 18 December 1990.(subscription required)
- ↑ "Entertainment | Rod Stewart divorce is finalised". BBC News. 30 November 2006. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ↑ Kari Friedlander (25 June 2009). "Rachel Hunter Calls off Wedding". TV Guide Online. Archived from the original on 27 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2009.
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