Trudie Styler

Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler at the premiere of Imogene, Toronto Film Festival 2012
Born	(1954-01-06) 6 January 1954 Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
Spouse(s)	Sting (1992-present)
Children	Bridget Michael "Mickey" Sumner Jake Sumner Eliot Pauline Sumner Giacomo Luke Sumner

Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and producer. She is the second wife of the musician Sting.

Life and career

Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.^[1] She attended North Bromsgrove High School, where one of her teachers was Clifford T. Ward.^{[citation needed]} She went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and starred in various period BBC productions, including a small part in Poldark in 1977.^{[citation needed]}

Styler had lived with Sting for about ten years before marrying him on 20 August 1992.^{[citation needed]} They have four children: Bridget Michael (a.k.a. "Mickey" born 1984), Jake (born 1985), Eliot Paulina (nicknamed "Coco," born 1990) and Giacomo Luke (born 1995). Her daughter Eliot is the lead singer and frontwoman for the band I Blame Coco, and her son Jake is a model.^[2]

In 1989 the couple founded the Rainforest Foundation, which has raised more than $25 million to support indigenous rainforest peoples and help them protect their ancestral lands.^{[citation needed]} Styler is also an Ambassador for UNICEF, for which she has raised more than $5.5 million.^{[citation needed]}

In the mid-nineties Styler established Xingu Films,^[3] 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 will also write the screenplay.^[4]

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.^[5]

She is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.^[6]

Legal action

In 2007, Styler and her husband were forced to pay record damages for unfair dismissal after a tribunal found them guilty of breaking employment law for firing their private chef when she became pregnant. According to evidence presented in court, Styler's chef had been made to work 14-hour days while heavily pregnant. On one occasion, when she was seven months pregnant, she had to take a train and taxi from the Lake House estate near Salisbury to London, costing £148 in travel and £300 overtime, to prepare soup and salad for Miss Styler.^[7]

Filmography

Producer

• Moon (2009)
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
• Alpha Male (2006)
• Cheeky (2003)
• The Sweatbox (2002)
• Greenfingers (2000) aka Jailbuds
• Snatch (2000)
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) aka Two Smoking Barrels (USA)
• The Grotesque (1995) aka Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (USA) aka Grave Indiscretion
• Moving the Mountain (1994)

Actress (selected)

• A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson (West End, Edinburgh, Tour 2011)
• Paris Connections (2010)
• Living Proof (2008)
• The Vicar of Dibley - Wife swap Comic Relief special (2007)
• Alpha Male (2006)
• Love Soup (Irene) (2005)
• Empire (2005)
• Friends (season 8, episode 10 -- "The One with Monica's Boots") guest starred as herself
• Me Without You (2002)
• The Scold's Bridle (1998)
• Fair Game (1988)
• Miss Marple The Body in the Library (1984) as Josephine Turner
• The Mayor Of Casterbridge (1978)
• Poldark (1977)

References

External links

• Trudie Styler at the Internet Movie Database