Elizabeth Berkley was born on July 28,1974 and is an American actress.
38 Facts About Elizabeth Berkley
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Elizabeth Berkley voiced the title role of the anime film Armitage III: Poly-Matrix and had supporting roles in the films The First Wives Club and Roger Dodger.
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Elizabeth Berkley is the daughter of Jere, a gift-basket business owner and Fred Berkley, a lawyer.
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Elizabeth Berkley was raised in a Conservative Jewish household and had a bat mitzvah.
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Elizabeth Berkley was born with partial heterochromia, a condition of differently colored irises; her right eye is half green and half brown and her left eye is all green.
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Elizabeth Berkley graduated in 1992 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, MI.
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Elizabeth Berkley auditioned for the lead role in the film Annie.
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Elizabeth Berkley performed in several ballets, including Swan Lake, and in 1983 she appeared in some musicals.
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Elizabeth Berkley was a teenage model for Elite before pursuing an acting career.
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Elizabeth Berkley made her television debut in the 1987 television film Frog, while making a number of guest appearances on other TV shows.
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Elizabeth Berkley then played a Madonna body-double named Tina in the independent film The Real Blonde.
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Elizabeth Berkley was cast in the title role in the anime film Armitage III: Poly Matrix, which starred Kiefer Sutherland and booked supporting roles in independent films such as The Taxman, Tail Lights Fade, the acclaimed Roger Dodger, and Moving Malcolm.
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Elizabeth Berkley had a small role as a call girl hired by Al Pacino's character in Oliver Stone's sports drama Any Given Sunday, as well as a key supporting role in Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
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Elizabeth Berkley appeared on stage with Eddie Izzard as Honey in the London stage version of Lenny in 1999.
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Elizabeth Berkley made her Broadway debut in the comedy Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss in February 2004, three months after her marriage to artist Greg Lauren.
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Elizabeth Berkley replaced Catherine Kellner as Bonnie in the 2005 off-Broadway production of David Rabe's Hurlyburly, appearing with Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey, and Bobby Cannavale.
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Elizabeth Berkley had a recurring role in the successful and critically acclaimed sitcom Titus, playing the title character's sister Shannon.
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In 2008, Elizabeth Berkley signed on to appear in a multiepisode arc of CSI: Miami, in which she plays Horatio Caine's ex-lover, Julia Winston, who is the mother of his recently discovered son.
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The episodes in which Elizabeth Berkley appeared were very highly rated and all of them featured in the top-10 Nielsen ratings chart.
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Elizabeth Berkley has since appeared in the show's season-six finale.
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Elizabeth Berkley hosted Bravo's reality series, Step It Up and Dance, a competition featuring the exploits of 10 wannabe dancers who compete against each other to win a cash prize of $100,000, and the opportunity to work with and perform for some of the country's top choreographers.
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Elizabeth Berkley was quoted as saying that she gets "invested in the dancers" because she has befriended many of them offstage.
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Elizabeth Berkley starred alongside Thomas Jane in the David Arquette-directed short film "The Butler's in Love", which premiered at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles in June 2008.
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In 2009, Elizabeth Berkley starred in a multi-episode arc of the Showtime series The L Word during its sixth and final season.
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Elizabeth Berkley played Kelly Wentworth, a straight girl who got away from Jennifer Beals' character Bette Porter in college.
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Elizabeth Berkley continued with television work, reprising her role as Julia Winston in CSI: Miami, appearing in three more episodes, including the season-seven finale.
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Elizabeth Berkley appeared as Tracy in the 2009 comedy Women in Trouble.
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In 2011, Elizabeth Berkley played the lead female role in the Hallmark Channel original film Lucky Christmas, about a woman who wins the lottery, only to have to recover the ticket from the glove compartment of her stolen car.
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In September 2013, Elizabeth Berkley was announced as one of the contestants on the 17th season of Dancing with the Stars.
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On February 4,2015, Elizabeth Berkley reunited with Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Dennis Haskins, and Tiffani Thiessen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they appeared in a Saved by the Bell sketch with Fallon.
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In 2010, Berkley set up the now-defunct self-help program online for teen girls called Ask-Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth Berkley regularly meets with young girls to discuss different issues and topics and to help them with any problems that they are going through, speaking of her own troubles in the past.
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Amy Bailey, vice president of development in MTV's News and Documentaries division, said Elizabeth Berkley approached MTV with the idea.
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In 2011, Berkley published Ask-Elizabeth, a self-help book for teenaged girls, which drew from the workshops she conducted for the Ask-Elizabeth program.
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In 2000, Elizabeth Berkley was tangentially involved in a $45 million lawsuit when actor and screenwriter Roger Wilson filed suit against Leonardo DiCaprio, claiming that DiCaprio had encouraged his friends to assault Wilson in a street fight, related to invitations to socialize directed at Elizabeth Berkley.
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On November 1,2003, Elizabeth Berkley married artist and actor Greg Lauren at the Esperanza Hotel in Cabo San Lucas.
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Elizabeth Berkley formally changed her name to Elizabeth Berkley Lauren, but she still uses her maiden name professionally.
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Elizabeth Berkley gave birth to their son in July 2012.