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Alicia Silverstone, (born October 4,
1976) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She first came to widespread attention in music videos
for Aerosmith and later starred in Hollywood films such
as Clueless and Batman & Robin.
Early life: Alicia Silverstone was born in San
Francisco, California, to Monty Silverstone, a
real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a former flight
attendant. Silverstone's father is English-born and her
mother is Scottish. Her father, a native of East London,
is Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism upon
marrying Silverstone's father. She attended San Mateo
High School but did not complete her high school
studies.
Silverstone is the youngest of three
children and also has a half-sister, London rock singer
Kezi Silverstone, and a half-brother, David Silverstone,
both from her father's previous marriage. Silverstone
visited England during the summer during her childhood.
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
the 'dream girl' on American TV series The Wonder Years.
Career, 1990s: Silverstone won a leading part in
the 1993 film The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to
ruin an older man after her teenage crush is spurned;
she won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the
role for Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Villian.
Silverstone became legally emancipated at the age of
fifteen in order to work the hours required for the
shooting schedule of the film. After seeing her in The
Crush, Marty Callner decided she'd be perfect for a role
in a music video he was direction for the band
Aerosmith, called "Cryin", and then the
following two videos "Crazy" and
"Amazing". These were hugely successful both
for 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.
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" by the MTV Movie
Awards in 1996 for her performance in the film.
Silverstone's next role was as Batgirl in Batman &
Robin, which was neither a critical nor a financial
success. Silverstone won a Razzie Award for Worst
Supporting Actress and earned the nickname
"Fatgirl." She suffered further bad press for
allegedly striking a pedestrian with her vehicle in a
crosswalk. She also starred in 1997's dark comedy Excess
Baggage, which was the first movie to be released by
First Kiss Productions. In the film, Silverstone played
a chain smoking, underage drinking, rich brat who fakes
her own kidnapping in order to get her father's
attention. The film was not as critically or
commercially embraced as Clueless After just one film,
Columbia-TriStar let their production deal with
Silverstone expire.
2000s: Silverstone appeared in Kenneth Branagh's
film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's
Lost in 2000, 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.
She then effectively removed herself from the public eye
for a few years, resurfacing in the critically acclaimed
NBC television show Miss Match, which was cancelled
after thirteen episodes in fall 2003. This long hiatus
was referred to in the pilot episode of the television
series Get Real, as an exasperated Kenny remarked,
"Why can't I fall off the face of the earth, like
Alicia Silverstone?"
Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the
trappings of fame, insisting that being a celebrity is a
horrific ordeal that she wouldn't want her worst enemy
to suffer. According to Silverstone, "Fame is not
anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you
love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you're on
show.
After the cancellation of Miss Match in 2003, she scored
a pilot with FOX called Queen B, in which she would have
played a former high school prom queen named Beatrice
(Bea), who has found out that the real world is nothing
like high school.
For the pilot season of 2006-2007, she surfaced on pilot
being developed by ABC called Pink Collar, in which she
would have worked in a law firm.
Silverstone's most recent movie, Stormbreaker, was
released in the UK on July 21, 2006, and in North
America on October 13, 2006. Silverstone filmed the role
of Jack Starbright (Alex Rider's housekeeper and
guardian) in the summer of 2005, several days after her
wedding. She took the role because the opportunity to
work with co-stars Ewan McGregor and Sophie Okonedo,
both of whom she has said she admires.
In November 2006, she starred in the television movie
Candles on Bay Street for Hallmark Hall of Fame, based
on the book by Cathie Pelletier under the pseudonym of
K.C. Mikinnon.
Personal life: Silverstone married longtime
boyfriend, rock musician Christopher Jarecki, in a
beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The
couple had dated for eight years prior to being married,
after meeting outside a movie theater in 1997. They got
engaged about a year before their marriage and
Silverstone's engagement ring belonged to Jarecki's
grandmother. They live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles
house complete with solar panels and an organic
vegetable garden. She bought the house, shared with a
"menagerie of rescued dogs," in 1996.
Silverstone drives a Mercedes Benz .
Political beliefs: Ms. Silverstone has strong
political opinions and is noted for being an animal
welfare and environmental activist. She also 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."In 2004, Silverstone was
voted "Sexiest Female Vegetarian" by PETA.
Records also reveal that Silverstone contributed $500 to
Dennis Kucinich's 2004 Presidential campaign.
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 segment 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 Hollywood deemed the act a deliberate
snub. Neither Silverstone nor Hasselbeck released
statements regarding the matter. |
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