Alice SILVERSTONE [San Fransisco, 4 october 1976 (Actress; Producer)]

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Sign: Datingi Alicia Silverstone was born in San Francisco to English parents on October 4th, 1976. She spent many of her early summers in England, during one of which she became interested in theatre. She began with ballet and started modelling at the age of six. She had a very active imagination, often believing that her parents were aliens or that her mother, an airline stewardess, was Olivia Newton John. She made her stage debut in Carol’s Eve, playing a lesbian who overdoses on cocaine. She made her television debut in a Domino’s Pizza commercial at the age of fourteen. In 1992, she played Kevin’s dream girl in an episode of The Wonder Years.

biography
Alicia Silverstone was born in San Francisco to English parents on October 4th, 1976. She spent many of her early summers in England, during one of which she became interested in theatre. She began with ballet and started modelling at the age of six. She had a very active imagination, often believing that her parents were aliens or that her mother, an airline stewardess, was Olivia Newton John. She made her stage debut in Carol’s Eve, playing a lesbian who overdoses on cocaine. She made her television debut in a Domino’s Pizza commercial at the age of fourteen. In 1992, she played Kevin’s dream girl in an episode of The Wonder Years.

Her movie debut came in The Crush. Because she was only fifteen when the movie was filmed, she had to become legally emancipated in order to get around the child labour laws. As well, a stand-in was used in a brief nude scene. In the movie, Silverstone played Darian Forrester, a fourteen-year-old girl who becomes obsessed with the man who has moved into her parent’s garage apartment. Although the movie was a failure both critically and commercially, many of the critics were able to recognise Silverstone as an emerging talent. That year, she won for Best Villain and Best Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Movie Awards.

After appearing in two made-for-TV movies, Torch Song and Scattered Dreams, she made her next big step towards fame by appearing in the video for Aerosmith’s “Cryin’”. This was the first of three videos that she did for the band. Before she became famous in her own right, she was often referred to as ‘the girl from the Aerosmith videos’.

After turning down an offer to replace Shannen Doherty on Beverly Hills 90210 and appearing in another Aerosmith video (Crazy), she appeared in more big-screen movies. None of them did as much for her career as the Aerosmith video (Amazing) that she appeared in after them. The same could not be said of Clueless. Written and directed by Amy Heckerling, who directed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless starred Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a fashion-obsessed high school student. The character was the opposite of who Silverstone really was. Silverstone had gone to Beverly Hills High School, but had been a fashionless loner. She looked down on the clothes-obsessed, oh-so-popular girls that seemed to make up the majority of students at that school. Her parody of these girls went over well with the critics and even better with the audiences. The movie was a hit and she was a star.

She was not so fortunate with her next movie, Batman & Robin. The star-studded cast of George Clooney, Chris O’Donnel, Silverstone, Uma Thurman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t save this movie from its script. The movie was nominated for eleven Razzies, the awards for bad movies. Among the awards it was nominated for were Worst Movie, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, and Worst Disregard for Human Life and Public Property. Silverstone, who played Batgirl, won Worst Supporting Actress, the only one of the eleven nominations that the movie actually ‘won’. Fortunately, the success of the previous three Batman movies gave the movie enough momentum to make back its $110 million budget.

Somewhat more successful critically but far less successful commercially was Excess Baggage. Silverstone starred as Emily Hope, a girl who craves attention but must learn that acceptance comes from within. In her bid to get more attention, mostly from her rich father, she fakes her own kidnapping. Co-starring were Christopher Walken and Benecio Del Toro, two actors for whom Silverstone had great admiration. This was the first movie from First Kiss Productions, the company that Silverstone started with her manager Carolyn Kessler. Silverstone has said that with this movie she learnt the difference between making a Hollywood movie and making a good movie. She didn’t learn well enough in the minds of the critics, who gave the movie mediocre reviews.

Earlier this year, Silverstone has appeared in Blast From the Past, a ‘fish-out-of-water’ comedy that also stars Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, and Sissy Spacek. During the Cuban missile crisis, a nut-case scientist (Walken) locks himself and his pregnant wife (Spacek) in a bomb shelter for thirty-five years. Shortly after, their son Adam (Fraser) is born. Upon leaving the bomb shelter thirty-five years later, they discover that America has not been nuked. Fraser soon meets and falls in love with Eve (Silverstone). What follows is a series of clichéd, person-from-the-wrong-decade, gags that were explored thoroughly in movies like Back to the Future and Austen Powers. What saved the movie was the quality of acting from Silverstone, Fraser, and Walken. So far, the movie has done respectably well at the box-office.

Silverstone has three more movies that should be released this year. Love’s Labour Lost, which has Kenneth Branagh co-writing, directing, and starring, is a musical version of the Shakespeare play. Breakers was written by Julie Bateman and will co-star Anjelica Huston. Andy Borowitz, the co-producer of Pleasantville, wrote Stand by Your Man. This will be the second movie from First Kiss Productions. It tells the story of a woman (Silverstone) who attempts to win fame by marrying a notorious killer on death row. Things go wrong when he is released after the real killer confesses.

When she has not been making movies, Silverstone has been speaking out in favour of animal rights. She has worked extensively with Last Chance For Animals, The Ark Trust, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. She has appeared in commercials advocated the neutering of pets and calling for non-participation in biology class dissections. She spends much of her free time with her dog, Samson.

Alicia Silverstone has established herself as one of Hollywood’s top sex symbols. But instead of exploiting this image, she has fought it by refusing to appear nude and not playing clones of her star-making characters in The Crush and Clueless. Instead, she has branched out into production, avoiding the traps of Hollywood clichés. Her future success will depend on whether audiences and critics can see her for more than just a pretty face.


links
Alicia Silverstone Site (150th)
"A" Grade Alicia Silverstone Webpage
Alex's Alicia Silverstone Page
John's Alicia Photos
Alicia Gallery
Alicia Silverstone - The One and Only
Alicia Silverstone Central
Nomis' Alicia Silverstone Devotion
Alicia Silverstone Fabulous Page
Alicia Silverstone Gold
Alicia Silverstone Internet Fan Site
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