1. Elisabeth Shue was born on October 6,1963 and is an American actress.
46 Facts About Elisabeth Shue
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Elisabeth Shue leads the Netflix dramedy series On the Verge.
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Elisabeth Shue was born on October 6,1963, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Anne Brewster, and James William Elisabeth Shue, a one-time congressional candidate, lawyer, and real-estate developer, who was president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation.
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Elisabeth Shue's mother was a vice president in the private banking division of the Chemical Bank.
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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 Andrew and she 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 Elisabeth 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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Over a decade later, in 2000, Elisabeth Shue returned to Harvard and completed her bachelor of arts in government.
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Elisabeth Shue had small parts, credited as Lisa Shue, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana 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 teenaged 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 went 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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The sequels were filmed back to back, and Elisabeth Shue featured prominently in Part II, appearing in bookend pieces in the third part of the trilogy.
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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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Between 1992 and 1994, Elisabeth Shue appeared in a variety of supporting roles in both film and television.
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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 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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The thriller Palmetto afforded her the chance to play a film noir-ish femme fatale opposite Woody Harrelson; Elisabeth Shue co-starred in Cousin Bette with Jessica Lange, and Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon proved another summer blockbuster.
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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 who 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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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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Elisabeth Shue played the former groupie mother of Abigail Breslin in Janie Jones, and a psychologist in Waking Madison alongside Sarah Roemer and Imogen Poots.
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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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In 2012, Elisabeth Shue returned to television in a series regular role when she joined the cast of season 12's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Julie Finlay opposite Ted Danson, and replacing Marg Helgenberger.
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Elisabeth Shue continued in the role until the end of season 15, when 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 reunited with Back to the Future alumna Lea Thompson, who guest-starred in an episode of season 14.
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In 2014, Elisabeth Shue appeared as a cougar in Behaving Badly along with Selena Gomez, Nat Wolff, and Heather Graham.
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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 2018, Elisabeth Shue co-starred in Eli Roth's remake of Death Wish opposite Bruce Willis as his ill-fated wife.
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In 2019, Elisabeth Shue took leading roles, as Madelyn Stillwell in the American superhero drama television series, The Boys, with Karl Urban and Jack Quaid, and 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.
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Elisabeth Shue married film director Davis Guggenheim in 1994; they have three children together.
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Elisabeth Shue gave birth to their first child, a son named Miles, on November 11,1997.