Elisabeth Shue

Birthday: Oct 6, 1963
Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Biography:
is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress.Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into a prosperous and well-educated family and grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Her father, who was active in Republican politics, once unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, from which she withdr...
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ew to pursue her acting career. She returned to Harvard, 15 years after withdrawing, to finish her degree in Government in 2000.During her studies at Columbia and after her parents' divorce, she found a way to make extra money by acting in television commercials. A state junior level gymnast, Shue became a common sight in ads for Burger King, DeBeers diamonds, and Hellman's mayonnaise.In 1984, she co-starred in The Karate Kid as the onscreen girlfriend of Ralph Macchio, and had a role as the teenage daughter of a military family in the short-lived series Call to Glory. She continued her acting work with Adventures in Babysitting, her first starring role, Cocktail, Soapdish, and The Marrying Man. Trying to shed her girl-next-door image, Shue took a chance on a low-budget, high-risk project called Leaving Las Vegas. Her portrayal of a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic played by Nicolas Cage earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Since then, she has starred in The Saint, Deconstructing Harry, Palmetto, and Hollow Man.In 2006, Shue and her two brothers are producing Gracie, a movie about a teenage girl with an interest in soccer, in part based on Elisabeth's own experience. It is in part filmed on location in areas where she grew up.
Filmography
- Piranha 3-D (2010)
- Waking Madison (2009)
- Don McKay (2008)
- Hamlet 2 (2008)
- Gracie (2007)
- First Born (2006)
- Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005)
- Hide and Seek: Do You Want to Play? The Making of 'Hide and Seek' (2005)
- Mysterious Skin (2005)
- Hide and Seek (2005)
- Leo (2002)
- Amy & Isabelle (2001)
- The First Year (2001)
- Hollow Man (2000)
- Molly (1999)
- Cousin Bette (1998)
- Deconstructing Harry (1997)
- Palmetto (1997)
- The Saint (1997)
- The Trigger Effect (1996)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
- The Underneath (1995)
- Radio Inside (1994)
- Blind Justice (1994)
- Heart and Souls (1993)
- Twenty Bucks (1993)
- The Marrying Man (1991)
- Soapdish (1991)
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- Cocktail (1988)
- Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
- Double Switch (Switching Places) (1987)
- Link (1986)
- The Karate Kid (1984)
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- Facebook User at 4:32pm on September 9th, 2009
- Lindsey, I suppose someone must like to have it there...
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- ew, wtf is up with the profile picture? Why do her mushy white boobs have to be hanging out? Boo.
- Maria Mis at 3:14pm on November 16th, 2008
- a woman!!!
- Facebook User at 4:18pm on November 2nd, 2008
- Elizabeth Shue has been my dream girl since I was about 16, and she's still amazing after all these years!!!
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