Australian born ‘The Body’ Elle MacPherson is one of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy bunny girls who has remained constantly beautiful, graceful and classy throughout both her modeling and acting career.

It was 1994 that saw Elle not only making her acting debut with Hugh Grant in Sirens, but appearing on cover of Hef’s May 1994 issue of Playboy magazine.

From then, Elle has continued to grace the cover of many magazines, appear in several movies with such actors as George Clooney, Sam Neill, Anthony Hopkins, Barbara Streisand and Portia de Rossi.

Becoming one of the first Supermodels, as coined by the 1980’s description, along with Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Christie Brinkley and Naomi Campbell, Elle has enjoyed a long and successful career in the public eye not only as a model and actress but also as a restauranteur and a business woman with her own line of intimate apparel and cosmetics.

In March 2009 MacPherson looked dazzling in a green and gold eveing gown as she walked the red carpet before picking up an award at the Women’s World Awards in Vienna. As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper, ‘The 44-year-old, who is 6ft tall, clearly saw no need for high heels, teaming the dress instead with a pair of flip flops. Her award was for World Career. As well as huge success in modelling, which earned her the nickname The Body, Elle has founded a number of business ventures.