Elisabeth Judson Shue was born on October 6,1963 and is an American actress.
36 Facts About Elisabeth Shue
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Elisabeth Shue is best known for performances in a number of prominent films in the 1980s and 1990s, including Leaving Las Vegas, which garnered her numerous award nominations including an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Elisabeth Shue's mother was a vice president in the private banking division of the Chemical Bank Corporation.
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Elisabeth Shue's mother is a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster, while her father's family emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
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Elisabeth Shue was raised with her three brothers and was very close to them.
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Elisabeth Shue's younger brother, Andrew, is an actor, best known for his role as Billy Campbell in the Fox series Melrose Place.
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Elisabeth Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in 1981 in Maplewood, New Jersey, where she and Andrew were inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Elisabeth Shue has two half-siblings from her father's remarriage, Jenna and Harvey Shue.
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Elisabeth Shue then transferred to Harvard University in 1985, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career one semester short of earning her degree.
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Elisabeth Shue had small parts, credited as Lisa Shue, in and Somewhere, Tomorrow which provided an early starring role for Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Elisabeth Shue made her feature film debut in 1984, when she co-starred opposite Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid as Ali Mills, a high school cheerleader and the love interest of Macchio's main character.
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Elisabeth Shue was a series regular as the teenage daughter of a military family in the short-lived television series Call to Glory between 1984 and 1985, which she followed in 1986 starring alongside Terence Stamp in the British horror film Link.
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In 1987 Elisabeth Shue appeared in the television movie Double Switch, co-starring with George Newbern, who would go on to support her in her first star vehicle, the hugely popular Adventures in Babysitting, in the same year.
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In 1988, Elisabeth Shue starred in Cocktail as the love interest of Tom Cruise's lead character.
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Elisabeth Shue auditioned for the Ione Skye role in Say Anything.
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In May 1990, Elisabeth Shue made her Broadway debut in Some American Abroad at the Lincoln Center.
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Elisabeth Shue returned to Broadway in 1993, performing in Tina Howe's production of Birth and After Birth.
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Elisabeth Shue was nominated for a BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actress, and won Best Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards and the National Society of Film Critics Awards.
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Elisabeth Shue's career flourished after her Oscar nomination, landing her diverse roles.
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Elisabeth Shue displayed some action movie skills in the 1997 spy remake The Saint opposite Val Kilmer.
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In 1999, Elisabeth Shue starred as the titular Molly as an autistic young woman placed into the care of her unwilling bachelor brother, played by Aaron Eckhart.
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Elisabeth Shue played a mother that reveals her dark past to her teenaged daughter in the 2001 ABC movie Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle.
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Elisabeth Shue has since stated she was "extremely proud of that film, which no one ever saw, so it's a good lesson that you do work for yourself and not necessarily for the end result".
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Elisabeth Shue starred in Leo with Joseph Fiennes and Dennis Hopper, Mysterious Skin opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hide and Seek opposite Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning, and Dreamer again opposite Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell.
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Elisabeth Shue played the mother of the main character who was loosely based on her own experiences as the only girl on a boys' soccer team.
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Andrew Elisabeth Shue initially conceived of it as a story about their late brother William, the oldest Elisabeth Shue sibling, who was the captain of the high school soccer team; he died in a freak accident while the family was on a vacation in 1988.
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Elisabeth Shue starred in the little seen First Born with British actor Steven Mackintosh.
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In 2008, Elisabeth Shue starred in Hamlet 2 as a fictionalized version of herself.
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In 2009, Elisabeth Shue appeared on the seventh season of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm as an actress competing with Cheryl Hines's character for the part of George's ex-wife for the Seinfeld reunion.
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In 2010, Elisabeth Shue starred in Piranha 3D as Sheriff Julie Forester.
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In 2012, Elisabeth Shue appeared in three wide-release theatrical films: the thriller House at the End of the Street with Jennifer Lawrence; Curtis Hanson's Chasing Mavericks opposite Gerard Butler; and David Frankel's Hope Springs as Karen the bartender in a cameo scene with Meryl Streep.
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Elisabeth Shue continued in the role until the end of Season 15 where her character's fate was left hanging in the balance, later revealed in the two-part 2015 TV movie wrap-up finale of the entire series to have died.
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Elisabeth Shue re-united with Back to the Future alumna Lea Thompson, who guest starred in an episode of Season 14.
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Elisabeth Shue had originally signed on as a tennis adviser for the film which recounts the 1973 showdown between female player Billie Jean King and former men's champ Bobby Riggs.
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In 2019, Elisabeth Shue took a leading role in the American superhero drama television series, The Boys, with Karl Urban and Jack Quaid, and will be playing the lead role in the TNT television pilot Constance, playing a corrupt former beauty queen.
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Elisabeth Shue starred in Greyhound opposite Tom Hanks, released in 2020.