10 Things You Didn't Know About Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

A Rosie by any other name would smell as sweet.

The world is practically Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's oyster; after thriving as a fashion and lingerie model ever since she first made her debut in 2006, she has since been cited as one of the most desirable women on the planet - and she's a Hollywood actress, too! Rosie Huntington-Whiteley first came to people's attention when she replaced Megan Fox as Shia LaBeouf's love interest in the third Transformer movie - a case of Michael Bay seemingly swapping out one actress hired for her look for another. Because Rosie Huntington-Whiteley had no real prior acting experience - at least, not professionally. When the movie arrived, teenage boys who felt agonised over Megan Fox's departure presumably found something new to find comfort in: namely, Huntington-Whiteley's bum. That's to say, her character, Carly Spencer, was introduced by way of a tight close-up of her buttocks - the reasoning behind Michael Bay's decision to cast the model could not have been made more apparent. Unfortunately for Huntington-Whiteley, the critics weren't as kind about her acting as they were her figure: "Her acting makes Megan Fox look like Meryl Streep," wrote critic Lou Lumenick. " couldn't be duller," echoed Peter Travers. But that's all in the past: she has a new movie coming out in George Miller's action masterpiece, Mad Max: Fury Road, in which Huntington-Whiteley delivers her best performance to date as a member of a group known as The Five Wives - females in an apocalyptic future who join forces with Max to escape their oppressive captors. To celebrate Huntington-Whiteley's latest performance (really: it's quite good), here are 10 things you probably didn't know about the British model and actress...

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.