Supermodel Elle Macpherson cast in CW’s Beautiful Life

Above: Elle Macpherson in one of her earlier roles, in the 2001 mini-series A Girl Thing, with Kate Capshaw.

Supermodel Elle Macpherson will play the head of a modelling agency and a former 1980s model in the pilot of the CW’s new drama, Beautiful Life.
   Macpherson will have a recurring role in the new series, sources say, which also stars Mischa Barton, Sara Paxton, Ben Hollingsworth, Ashley Madekwe and Nico Tortorella. It is her first screen appearance since 2001 and her first recurring TV role since she guest-starred on Friends.
   The drama focuses on models who live together in a residence after moving to New York. Among the producers is Ashton Kutcher.