Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Biography
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is an English model and actress famous for being a Victoria’s Secret Angel, being the face of Burberry’s 2011 brand fragrance Burberry Body, and working with Marks & Spencer. She recently collaborated with Paige, a denim-focused fashion brand. Besides her work with brands, she has acted as Carly Spencer in Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Splendid Angharad in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Age
Huntington-Whiteley was born Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley on April 18, 1987, in Plymouth, England. She is 37 years old as of 2024. Huntington-Whiteley celebrates her birthday on April 18th.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Height
Huntington-Whiteley stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 9 inches.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Family
Huntington-Whiteley was born to Fiona Yvonne and Charles Andrew Huntington-Whiteley. Fiona works as a fitness instructor and is the daughter of Alan Jackson of Buckinghamshire. Charles works as a chartered surveyor. She has a younger brother named Toby and a younger sister named Florence.
Huntington-Whiteley grew up on a farm near Tavistock, Devon. Eric Huntington-Whiteley, JP, her paternal great-grandfather was the nephew of George Whiteley, 1st Baron Marchamley, and the son of politician Sir Herbert Huntington-Whiteley, 1st Baronet. He was a Wing Commander and married Enid Etta Cohn.
Enid hailed from a Polish Jew family that migrated to England in the 1870s. Gillian, Rosie’s paternal grandmother, was the daughter of Jacob Franks, a surgeon of West Chiltington, Sussex.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Relationship/Jason Statham
Huntington-Whiteley has been in a relationship with actor Jason Statham since 2010. Her representative verified their engagement in January 2016. The couple has a son named Jack Oscar Statham and a daughter named Isabella James Statham.
Jack was born on June 24, 2017, and is 7 years old as of 2024. She shared news of their second expectancy in August 2021. Isabella was born on February 2, 2022, and is 2 years old as of 2024. The family lived in California for multiple years before relocating to London in 2020. During an interview with The Sunday Times in 2021, Huntington-Whiteley revealed that she would like to raise and educate her children in England.
Jason is an English actor and producer known for tough, valiant, or violent characters in multiple action thriller films. He is credited for leading the comeback of action films during the 2000s and 2010s. He was born on July 26, 1967, and is 57 years old as of 2024.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Net Worth
Huntington-Whiteley has an estimated net worth of between $30 Million which she has earned through her successful career as a model and actress.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Huntington-Whiteley starred as Carly Spencer in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Carly is the new girlfriend of Sam Witwicky(Shia LaBeouf). She works at the British embassy and met Sam when he was awarded a medal for his former heroics.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Smoking
Huntington-Whiteley quit smoking and was last seen publicly smoking in 2012. During an interview with David Letterman, she said that she spent an entire week making coffee, picking up the telephone, smoking cigarettes, and drinking wine at 11 AM after she got a work placement at a modeling agency.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Education
Huntington-Whiteley studied at Tavistock College where she was bullied and teased for having a double-barrelled name, small breasts, and full lips.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Career
Before taking her GCSEs, Huntington-Whiteley gained work experience at Profile, a London West End-based model agency when she was 15 years old. In the summer of 2006, she was signed after leaving school. A Levi’s jeans commercial was her first modeling session.
Her big break came in January 2004 when she traveled to New York City for a shoot with Teen Vogue. In the Spring of 2004, she had her catwalk debut walking opposite Naomi Campbell in New City. Subsequently, she was photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. In early 2006, Victoria’s Secret signed her and she debuted at the brand’s fashion show in Los Angeles.
Huntington-Whiteley was unknown outside the fashion industry until 2008 when she replaced Agyness Deyn for Burberry’s Autumn/Winter campaign with actor Sam Riley. November 2008 marked her first British Vogue cover feature. On the cover, she appeared with Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn in a feature celebrating British models. The next year, she appeared as the face of Karen Millen’s Spring/Summer 2009 advertising campaign.
Huntington-Whiteley portrayed a woman whose boyfriend forgets Valentine’s Day in a short film for Agent Provocateur lingerie. In fall/winter 2009, she was a model in campaigns for Godiva and Miss Sixty. She became an official Victoria’s Secret Angel in February 2010, partaking in the yearly Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York City. That same year, she posed nude for the Pirelli Calendar.
2010 t0 2011
Huntington-Whiteley’s SS10 advertising campaigns include Monsoon’s first underwear line, Thomas Wylde, Full Circle, and VS Online. She collaborated with VOGUE.COM for their Today I’m Wearing feature in March. In May 2010, she appeared on the covers of Harper’s Bazaar Russia and GQ UK. She appeared on the cover of LOVE Magazine’s September issue styled as a pinup girl.
During Fashion Week 10, Huntington-Whiteley modeled for Burberry and its first beauty line. She also did advertising campaigns for Thomas Wylde and Leon Max. A May 2010 announcement revealed that she had joined the cast of Transformers: Dark of the Moon as the new female lead. She has previously worked with the film’s director, Michael Bay on a Victoria’s Secret commercial.
2011 to present;
In 2011, she said that she wouldn’t walk the show and left Victoria’s Secret to pursue other opportunities as she knew the short shelf-life a model has. She has walked the runway for Prada in Milan and Giles Deacon in Paris. MTV Networks’ NextMovie.com mentioned her among the Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011. That same year, she won the CinemaCon Female Star of Tomorrow Award before the premiere of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Rankin, a fashion photographer, dedicated a book to her dubbed Ten Times Rosie. He said that she brought something different to modeling. She secured her first solo British Vogue cover in March 2011. She also appeared on the covers of Elle and GQ’s UK July issues. That same month, she was announced as the face of Burberry’s fragrance, Burberry Body.
Huntington-Whiteley appeared in the 2013 Marks & Spencer Christmas advert opposite Helena Bonham Carter and David Gandy. Further, she was named the face of ModelCo, an Australian cosmetics brand. In 2014, PAIGE named her their ambassador for their Spring 2015 ad campaign. In February 2017, PAIGE debuted their initial design collaboration with her named Rosie HW x PAIGE, a 17-piece capsule collection for Spring. Next, they released a Fall collection comprising 20 pieces.
Huntington-Whiteley starred in Mad Max: Fury Road as The Splendid Angharad. The Splendid Angharad is one of the Five Wives Immortan Joe. For the character, she wore a prosthetic abdomen throughout the film. After giving birth to her son, she launched a website named “Rose Inc,” which expanded to trading its own clean makeup and skincare in August 2021.
Awards
Huntington-Whiteley won the Elle Style Award for Model of the Year in 2009, Top Style Icon in 2012, and Model of the Year in 2015. In 2011, Maxim Magazine ranked her at 1 in its Hot 100. Additionally, she won the Glamour Editor’s Special Award Award. She won the Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Award in the category Model of the Year in 2014 and Businesswoman of the Year in 2016.
In July 2011, Huntington-Whiteley ranked No. 15 on The Money Girls list and No.3 on the models.com Top 20 Sexiest Models list. FHM ranked her No.22 on its 2015 World’s Sexiest Woman poll. In 2016 and 2017, she ranked #5 on Forbes World’s highest-paid models list with approximate earnings of $9 million and $9.5 million respectively.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Instagram
She is active on her social media accounts and often posts on her Instagram. She has over 20M followers on Instagram.