Trudie Styler

Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker.England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983 [database on-line]. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office.[http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/default.aspx?htx=List&dbid=8964&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Ancestry.co.uk] Lists Trudie Styler on the index of births registered in Jan-Mar. 1954.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/earth-mother-vol-61-no-20/|title=Earth Mother|work=People}} 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".{{cite web|title=Trudie Styler : 'I never felt that I was beautiful since childhood accident'|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10747193/Trudie-Styler-Ive-never-felt-that-I-was-beautiful-since-childhood-accident.html|last=Furness|first=Hannah|date=5 April 2014|publisher=The Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk|access-date=31 December 2016}} She attended North Bromsgrove High School, where one of her teachers was the singer-songwriter Clifford T. Ward.

Styler trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and went on to appear in various period BBC productions. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, in which she played multiple major roles. Her theatre credits also include The Vagina Monologues, Twin Spirits, and The Seagull.{{Cite web|url=https://wwd.com/eye/people/sting-and-styler-perform-in-twin-spirits-3161477/|title=Sting and Styler Perform in "Twin Spirits"|first1=Matthew W.|last1=Evans|date=1 July 2010}}

She has appeared in many British television series such as The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Scold's Bridle, and in the United States television shows Empire, The Night Of, Friends (S8 Ep10), and Falling Water.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Styler's film work includes Lifetime Television's Living Proof and Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days. She has also made seven mind-body fitness DVDs released by Gaia, Inc.{{Cite web|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/stings-wife-made-a-yoga-dvd-fi|title=I Tried It: Sting's Wife's Yoga DVD (Filmed at Their Tuscan Villa!)|first=Sarah|last=Jio|website=Glamour|date=15 January 2010 }}

In the mid-1990s, Styler established Xingu Films,{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} a production company dedicated to supporting new talent, such as Guy Ritchie, Dito Montiel and Duncan Jones. In late July 2008 it was announced that Xingu had optioned American Reaper, an upcoming graphic novel written by Pat Mills, who would also write the screenplay.[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3id4bf6e72d9d5fd611863364092cf7401 Grim 'Reaper' lands at Xingu], The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2008

Styler has produced and co-directed several award-winning documentaries and feature films, including Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch; Duncan Jones' Moon; and Michael Apted's Moving the Mountain, which won the 1994 International Independent Documentary Award.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}

After moving to New York, Styler co-founded the production company Maven Pictures with Celine Rattray in 2011.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/exec/trudie-styler|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140130074301/http://variety.com/exec/trudie-styler/|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 January 2014|title=Trudie Styler|website=Variety}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mavenpic.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018143345/http://www.mavenpic.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 October 2016|title=Maven Pictures|website=Maven Pictures}} Their first feature, Girl Most Likely, starred Kristen Wiig; closely followed by Filth, starring James McAvoy; Black Nativity starring Forest Whitaker; Ten Thousand Saints starring Ethan Hawke; and American Honey starring Shia LaBeouf, which won Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Styler's 2017 directorial debut, Freak Show, is based on the New York Times bestseller by James St. James, and stars AnnaSophia Robb, Alex Lawther, and Bette Midler. Freak Show debuted at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

In 1989, Styler and her husband, Sting, cofounded the Rainforest Foundation Fund, an organisation devoted to protecting rainforests and their indigenous peoples. Since 1991, she has produced regular Rock for the Rainforest benefits at Carnegie Hall. As a UNICEF Ambassador, Styler has also raised millions for their projects around the globe.{{cite web|url=https://www.unicef.org.uk/celebrity-supporters/trudie-styler/|title=Trudie Styler, film producer, environmentalist, humanitarian and actor, is a long-standing supporter of Unicef|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=27 April 2017|archive-date=28 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428053951/https://www.unicef.org.uk/celebrity-supporters/trudie-styler/|url-status=dead}}

In 2008, it was reported that Styler donated £10,000 into the charitable Ama Sumani cancer fund.{{cite web|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/trudie-styler-i-dont-live-by-peoples-approval-i-never-have-6272064.html|publisher=Independent UK|title= I Don't Live By People Approval, I Never Have|date=4 December 2011 |access-date=27 April 2017}} 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.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7249701.stm Star's support for cancer woman], BBC Wales News, 17 February 2008.

Styler is also a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://london.ejaf.org/our-patrons/|title=Our Patrons|website=Elton John AIDS Foundation}}

Styler married rock musician Sting at Camden Register 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, south-west England.{{cite news |title=Sting on Love and Wife Trudie Styler: She Rocks Me|url=https://people.com/celebrity/sting-on-love-and-wife-trudie-styler-she-rocks-me/ |access-date=24 February 2020 |work=People}} In 1982, Sting separated from his first wife, actress Frances Tomelty, following an affair with Styler;{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/aug/04/features.magazine37|title=Interview: Trudie Styler|first=Adam|last=Higginbotham|date=3 August 2002|website=The Guardian}} Tomelty and Sting divorced in 1984.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/25/interview-the-thing-about-sting|title=Interview: The thing about Sting…|date=24 September 2011|website=The Guardian}} The split was controversial; as The Independent 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)".{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/trudie-styler-the-truth-about-trudie-410523.html|title=Trudie Styler: The truth about Trudie|date=4 August 2006|work=The Independent|access-date=2 September 2016}}

Sting and Styler have four children, three of whom were born before they married: Brigitte Michael ("Mickey", 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.{{cite news|url=http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/every-little-horse-he-names-is-magic-or-just-about/|title=Every Little Horse He Names is Magic (Or Just About)|newspaper= The New York Times |date=4 November 2010 |access-date=18 January 2015}}

She is also step-mother of two kids, daughter Fuschia and son Joe, whom Sting shares with his ex-wife Frances Tomelty.{{cite web | url=https://people.com/music/who-is-trudie-styler-sting-wife/ | title=All About Trudie Styler, the Actress and Producer Married to Sting }}

• 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 (1998) a.k.a. Two Smoking Barrels (USA)
• Snatch (2000)
• Greenfingers (2000) a.k.a. Jailbuds
• The Sweatbox (2002; also director)
• Cheeky (2003)
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
• Alpha Male (2006)
• Moon (2009)
• Wake Up (2010)
• The Son of No One (2011)
• Girl Most Likely (2012)
• Filth (2013)
• Black Nativity (2013)
• Still Alice (2014)
• Ten Thousand Saints (2015)
• Miss You Already (2015)
• American Honey (2016)
• For Grace (2016)
• Anatomy of Violence (2016)
• Novitiate (2017)
• Freak Show (2017)
• Kings (2017)
• The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
• Wildling (2018)
• Boarding School (2018)
• Skin (2018, short)
• Skin (2018)
• Driveways (2019)
• Human Capital (2019)
• With/In: Volume 1 (2021)
• With/In: Volume 2 (2021)
• Silent Night (2021)
• A Mouthful of Air (2021)
• Infinite Storm (2022)
• Inland (2022)
• Unicorns (2023)
• The Burial (2023)
• Eleanor the Great (2025)

• Poldark (1977, 5 episodes)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978, episode: #1.7)
• The Gentle Touch (1980, episode: "Shock")
• Funny Man (1981, 11 episodes)
• The Bell (1982, 4 episodes)
• Cockles (1984, episode: "Mermaids")
• Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)
• The American Bride (1986)
• Fair Game (1988)
• The Grotesque (1995)
• The Scold's Bridle (1998, 2 episodes)
• Midsomer Murders (1999, episode: "Strangler's Wood")
• Me Without You (2001)
• Friends (2001, episode: "The One with Monica's Boots")
• Bug (2002)
• Empire (2005, 3 episodes)
• Love Soup (2005, 5 episodes)
• Alpha Male (2006)
• The Vicar of Dibley (2007, Comic Relief special: "Wife Swap")
• Living Proof (2008)
• Paris Connections (2010)
• The Next Three Days (2010)
• A Dish of Tea with Dr. Johnson (West End, Edinburgh, 2011 tour)
• Filth (2013)
• Zoolander 2 (2016)
• Maniac (2018, 4 episodes)
• Pose (2019, 4 episodes)
• With/In: Volume 2 (2021)
• Silent Night (2021)
• Search Party (2022, 2 episodes)

• "My Funny Friend and Me" (2000, music video; co-directed with John-Paul Davidson)
• The Sweatbox (2002; co-directed with John-Paul Davidson)
• Wait (2005, short)
• Freak Show (2016)
• Spark Hunter (2022, podcast series)
• Posso entrare? An ode to Naples (2023; also writer)

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