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Full Name:Alicia Silverstone
Birth Name:Alicia Silverstone
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: October 04, 1976
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
Height: 5' 5
Nationality: American
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Green
Relationships: Mozie Chabbouth (hairdresser), Adam Sandler (actor, 1996)), Bryan Mashard (1997), Benicio Del Toro (actor)
Father: Monty Silverstone
Mother: Didi Silverstone
Brother(s): David Silverstone (older, half)
Sister(s): Kezi Silverstone (half)
Spouse: Christopher Jarecki (musician, since June 11, 2005)
Education: Attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California
Attended William H. Crocker Middle School in Hillsborough, California
Attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia
Attended Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts studying text, voice and movement
Claim to Fame: As Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

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Alicia Silverstone

Silverstone photographed by Jerry Avenaim, 2005
Born October 4, 1976 (1976-10-04) (age 32)
San Francisco, California, USA
Years active 1992 - present
Spouse(s) Christopher Jarecki
(2005–present)

Alicia Silverstone (pronounced /əˈliːsiə ˈsɪlvɚstoʊn/; born October 4, 1976) is an American film and stage actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997).

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Biography

Early life

Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Deirdre "Didi" (née Radford), a Scottish-born former Pan Amflight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, an English-born real-estate investor.12 Silverstone was raised in a "traditional Jewish household"; her father, a native of East London, is Jewish, and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage.3 Silverstone is the youngest of three children and also has a half-sister, London-based rock singer Kezi Silverstone, and a half-brother, David Silverstone, both from her father's previous marriage. Silverstone attended Crocker Middle School, then San Mateo High School but did not complete her high school studies. When she was six, she began modeling and was subsequently cast in television commercials, the first being for Domino's Pizza. She acquired some early modeling and advertising work and was eventually cast as "dream girl" Jessica on the episode Road Test of The Wonder Years.

Career

Alicia has won several awards for her film performances including MTV Movie Awards, National Board of Review, and Young Artist Awards. She has been nominated for an Emmy award and a Golden Globe Award. During her career, she turned down several key roles in films, including Dede Truitt in The Opposite of Sex, Nicole in My Father the Hero, Juliet Capulet in Romeo + Juliet and a role in Scream 3. She was also considered for roles in Scream 2, Bewitched, Little Women and Heartbreakers. She had also turned down the role of Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1994; Tiffani Thiessen was cast instead.


1990s

Silverstone won a leading part in the 1993 film The Crush, playing a teenaged girl who sets out to ruin an older man after he spurns her affections; she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role--Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Villain. Silverstone became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of the film. Also in 1993, Silverstone auditioned for the lead role of Angela Chase in the ABC TV series My So-Called Life, but Claire Danes was chosen for the role instead. Alicia made some television movies in her early career including Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy and Scattered Dreams.

After seeing her in The Crush, Marty Callner decided she would be perfect for a role in a music video he was directing for the band Aerosmith, called "Cryin'"; she was subsequently cast in two more videos,"Amazing" and "Crazy". These were hugely successful for both the band and Silverstone, making her a household name (and also gaining her the nickname, "the Aerosmith chick"). They also got her noticed by film maker Amy Heckerling, who after seeing them decided to cast her in Clueless.

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Clueless became a sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995. Silverstone's performance was well received, and she was branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. As a result, she signed a deal with Columbia-TriStar worth $10 million. As part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, First Kiss Productions. Silverstone also won "Best Female Performance" and "Most Desirable Female" at the 1996 MTV Movie Awardsfor her performance in the film. In the same year, Silverstone starred in the erotic thriller The Babysitter, film adaptation of the novel by Dean Koontz, Hideaway and the French drama about Americans New World.

Silverstone's next role was as Batgirl in Batman & Robin, and while it was not a critical success4, the film grossed $238,207,122 worldwide, and was thus a moderate financial success.5 Silverstone's turn as Batgirl was not well received, and won her a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.6 She suffered further bad press for allegedly striking a pedestrian with her vehicle in a crosswalk.7 In addition to Batman & Robin, Silverstone also starred alongside Benicio del Toro and Christopher Walken in 1997's dark comedy Excess Baggage, which was the first movie to be released by her production company. In the film, Silverstone played a rich brat who fakes her own kidnapping in order to get her father's attention. While not as reviled as Batman & Robin, the film was not as critically or commercially successful as Clueless.8 .

Alicia ended the 1990s with the Saturn Award-nominated romance/comedy film Blast from the Past which also stars Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek.

2000s

In 2000, Silverstone appeared in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost, in which she was required to sing and dance. In 2001, Silverstone provided the voice of Sharon Spitz, the lead character in the Canadian animated television Braceface. During this time she also made the films Global Heresy and Scorched. After removing herself from the public eye for a few years, she resurfaced in the shortlived 2003 NBC television show Miss Match, which was canceled after 18 episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame, stating that "Fame is not anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you're on show".9

After the cancellation of Miss Match in 2003, she did a pilot with FOX called Queen B, in which she would have played a former high school prom queen named Beatrice (Bea) who has discovered that the real world is nothing like high school. It was not picked up for syndication. In 2005, she co-starred with Queen Latifah in Beauty Shop, a spin-off of the BarberShop films, as one of the stylists in the beauty shop. In the same year, she played a reporter alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which was successful at box office, and the direct-to-video film Silence Becomes You.

In 2006, she starred in another pilot for ABC called Pink Collar, in which she would have worked in a law firm. Like Queen B, this pilot was not picked up for syndication. That year she also starred alongside Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke and Sophie Okonedo in the film, Stormbreaker, and starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-TV movie Candles on Bay Street based on the book by Cathie Pelletier. She is filmed a pilot for ABC alongside Megan Mullally called Bad Mother's Handbook. She made a cameo appearance in 2008 comedy film Tropic Thunder.

She is currently writing a diet book entitled The Kind Diet; it "explores the connection between what we put in our bodies and what we’re doing to the planet, and how choosing the right foods in the kitchen can help you feeling lighter, sexier, and more alive." 10 She will star in an LA-based play in January 2009.

In a recent interview with Graham Norton on his successful UK entertainment series, Alicia Silverstone stated that she is currently in talks about reprising the role of Cher in the up coming sequel to Clueless. Cluless: High School Reunion is set to go into production in April 2009.

Personal life

She has dated famous people including Benicio del Toro, Stephen Dorff, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bryan Mashard, Mozie Chabbouth and Adam Sandler. In a January 2000 interview with FHM, she denied that she dated Kenneth Branagh.

Silverstone married longtime boyfriend, rock musician Christopher Jarecki (lead singer of group S.T.U.N.), in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005. After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage.11 They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother.12 Her wedding dress was designed by Monique Lhuillier.

Silverstone and Jarecki live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden.11 She bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs," in 1996.12 Silverstone drives a Mercedes Benz.11 She is often seen around with gal pal socialite K.J. Stevens.11

Political convictions

Silverstone is noted for being an animal welfare and environmental activist. She became a vegan in 1998 after attending an animal rights meeting. "I realized that I was the problem," she told InStyle Home, in spring 2007. "I was an animal lover who was eating animals."11 In 2004, Silverstone was voted, "Sexiest Female Vegetarian," by PETA. In 2007, Silverstone appeared nude in a print advertisement and 30-second commercial for PETA championing vegetarianism; the TV spot was subsequently pulled from the Houston, Texas, market by Comcast Cable.13 Silverstone has set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angeles.14

Federal campaign contribution records also reveal that Silverstone contributed US$500 to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 Presidential campaign15.

On May 23, 2007, Silverstone was a guest on ABC's The View. Moments before she entered, hosts Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck had a heated argument regarding the Iraq war. The video segment16 shows Silverstone entering and walking past Hasselbeck to greet the other hosts. Though the interview continued normally and featured easy conversation between Silverstone and Hasselbeck, Access Hollywood17 deemed the act a deliberate snub. Hasselbeck later revealed, on an episode of The View which aired September 19, 2007, that Silverstone called and apologized for the incident. Hasselbeck said that Silverstone never meant to be rude, but was simply nervous when she walked on the stage and believed that incident was wrongly perceived by the media.

She was a supporter of Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.18

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Show
1996 Won American Comedy Awards Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) Clueless (1995)
1998 Nominated Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Supporting Actress - Sci-Fi Batman & Robin (1998)
1996 Won Blockbuster Entertainment Award Best Female Newcomer Clueless (1996)
2002 Nominated Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Braceface (2001)
2004 Won Genesis Awards Children's TV Series (shared)
2004 Nominated Golden Globe Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Miss Match (2003)
1996 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Film Actress- Blimp Award Clueless (1996)
1998 Won Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Batman and Robin (1997)
1996 Won MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Clueless (1996)
MTV Movie Awards Most Desirable Female
Nominated MTV Movie Awards Best Comedic Performance
1994 Won MTV Movie Awards Best Villain The Crush (1994)
MTV Movie Awards Best Breakthrough Performance
Nominated MTV Movie Awards Most Desirable Female
1995 Won National Board of Review Best Breakthrough Performer Clueless (1995)
1998 Won Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Film Actress Batman & Robin (1998)
Nominated Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Film Actress Excess Baggage (1998)
2004 Satellite Awards Best Female Actress Miss Match (2003)
1996 Young Artist Awards Best Young Leading Actress - Feature Film Clueless (1996)
1994 Young Artist Awards Best Young Leading Actress - Drama The Crush (1993)
2004 Won Young Hollywood Awards Hottest Coolest Young Veteran
2002 Voted Cosmopolitan Magazine Voted one of the "Fun and Fearless Females"
2004 Voted PETA Sexiest Female Vegetarian

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Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Other notes
1993 The Crush Adrian/Darian Forrester MTV Movie Awards
1995 Le Nouveau monde Trudy Wadd a.k.a New World
Hideaway Regina Harrison
Clueless Cher Horowitz American Comedy Award
The Babysitter Jennifer
1996 True Crime Mary Giordano direct-to-video
1997 Batman & Robin Batgirl/Barbara Wilson Kids' Choice Award
Excess Baggage Emily Hope also uncredited producer
1998 Junket Whore Herself documentary
1999 Blast from the Past Eve Rustikoff
2000 Love's Labour's Lost The Princess of France Her favorite film
2002 Global Heresy Natalie "Nat" Bevin a.k.a Rock My World
2003 Scorched Sheila Rio
2004 Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Heather Jasper-Howe
2005 Beauty Shop Lynn
Silence Becomes You Violet direct-to-video
2006 Stormbreaker Jack Starbright
2008 Tropic Thunder Herself Cameo
2009 Clueless: High School Reunion Cher
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1992 The Wonder Years Jessica TV series (one episode)
1993 Torch Song Delphine TV-Movie
Scattered Dreams Phyllis Messenger TV-Movie
1994 Cool and the Crazy Roslyn TV-Movie
1998 Wildlife Vet20 Herself TV documentary
2001-
2005
Braceface Sharon Spitz (voice) TV cartoon series
also executive producer
Emmy nomination
2003-
2005
Miss Match Kate Fox TV series
Golden Globe nomination
2005 Queen B Beatrice 'Bea' TV-pilot
co-executive producer
2006 Pink Collar Hayden TV-Pilot
Candles on Bay Street Dee Dee TV-Movie
2007 The Singles Table Georgia TV series
(unreleased)
2008 Bad Mother's Handbook Karen TV series
(post-production)
Music videos
Year Title Role Band
1993 Aerosmith: Cryin' Young Girl Aerosmith
Aerosmith: Amazing Girl
1994 Aerosmith: Crazy Girl #1

Theater

Year Title Role Director and writer Place
1993 Carol's Eve Debbie Pauline Lepor (writer)
Valerie Mayhew (director)
Met Theater, Hollywood, California, USA
2002 The Graduate Elaine Robinson Terry Johnson
2006 Boston Marriage Catherine David Mamet Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles
2007 Speed-the-Plow Karen David Mamet (writer)
Randall Arney (director)
Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles

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NAME Silverstone, Alicia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976-10-4
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco, California
DATE OF DEATH
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