Alicia Silverstone Biography

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress. Alicia Silverstone first came to widespread attention in the music video for Aerosmith's Cryin and later starred in "crazy" and several Hollywood motion pictures. According to critics, Alicia Silverstone has demonstrated a versatile acting talent in a range of parts, from femme fatale in The Crush to quirky comedy in Clueless. Alicia Silverstone is also noted for Alicia Silverstone's strong views on animal welfare and is a committed vegan. In 2004, Silverstone was voted sexiest female vegetarian.

Alicia SilverstoneSilverstone has continued to make a wide range of movie and television appearances, appearing mostly in comedy and action roles (she is still widely known for Alicia Silverstone's role in Clueless), although proving herself versatile enough to tackle the major Shakespeare production Love's Labour's Lost. Recently, Alicia Silverstone has extended Alicia Silverstone's repertoire by working as both a television and film producer.

Silverstone reportedly refuses to appear nude in any of Alicia Silverstone's movies. Because of this, Alicia Silverstone requires a body double in Alicia Silverstone's place for nude scenes. When Alicia Silverstone starred in the stage version of The Graduate, Alicia Silverstone insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let Alicia Silverstone's do this because, otherwise, Alicia Silverstone would have resigned from the show.

Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, to English Jewish parents Monty Silverstone, real-estate investor, and Didi Radford, a Scottish-born former flight attendant. Alicia Silverstone was raised in Hillsborough, California. Alicia is the youngest of Monty and Didi's three children but Alicia Silverstone also has a half-sister, Kezi Silverstone, who's a rock singer in London from Monty's previous marriage and a half-brother, David Silverstone. When Alicia was six, Monty took some photos of his young daughter. The photos allowed Alicia Silverstone's to get some modeling gigs which then led to television commercials (the first being for Domino's Pizza).

Alicia later attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California where Alicia Silverstone was a cheerleader. During this time Alicia Silverstone acquired some early modelling and advertising work and eventually got the part of the 'dream girl' on American TV series The Wonder Years. Alicia Silverstone won a leading part in the 1993 movie The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to ruin an older man after Alicia Silverstone's teenage crush is spurned, for which Alicia Silverstone won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. Silverstone actually became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of The Crush.

Alicia Silverstone went on to star in three Aerosmith music videos, entitled Cryin, Crazy, and Amazing which were hugely successful both for the band and Silverstone, making Alicia Silverstone's a household name. Around this period, Silverstone was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on Beverly Hills 90210. After Alicia Silverstone turned it down, the role went to Tiffani Thiessen.

After Clueless became a huge sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, Silverstone was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. As a result, Alicia Silverstone was able to sign a deal with Columbia-TriStar worth $10 million. As part of the package, Alicia Silverstone got a three-year first-look deal for Alicia Silverstone's own production company, "First Kiss Productions."

The first movie to be released by "First Kiss Productions" was a 1997 black comedy called Excess Baggage. Excess Baggage, a movie in which Silverstone played a chain smoking, underage drinking, rich brat, who fakes Alicia Silverstone's own kidnapping in order to get Alicia Silverstone's father's attention was not as criticially or commercially embraced as Clueless. Silverstone also came under fire (especially by E!) for receiving such a lucrative production deal so early in Alicia Silverstone's career. Excess Baggage was such a disappointment, that after just one film, Columbia-TriStar quietly let their production deal with Silverstone expire.

Around the time Alicia Silverstone was featured as Batgirl in Batman and Robin, Silverstone was lambasted by tabloid media and mainstream press alike for putting on weight. Though hardly obese by any standard, Silverstone had obviously put on more weight than the public was used to seeing Alicia Silverstone's carry, and this started a whirlwind of rumours which affected Alicia Silverstone's personal life. Ironically, Alicia Silverstone was turned down for the lead in 1994's My Father the Hero because the producers said that Alicia Silverstone was too heavy for the part. The role ultimately went to Katherine Heigl instead. It didn't help Silverstone's cause that Batman and Robin was an even bigger critical and commercial failure than Alicia Silverstone's other movie from 1997, Excess Baggage.

For some time, Silverstone, despite Alicia Silverstone's young age, gained the reputation of being a "has-been", who reached Alicia Silverstone's peak with the Aerosmith videos and Clueless. Alicia Silverstone effectively removed herself from the public eye for many years, resurfacing in the critically acclaimed television show Miss Match, which was cancelled after thirteen episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that Alicia Silverstone hates the trappings of fame, insisting that being a celebrity is a horrific ordeal that Alicia Silverstone wouldn't want Alicia Silverstone's 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."[1]

Silverstone married Alicia Silverstone's longtime boyfriend Christopher Jarecki, lead singer of the band S.T.U.N., at a beach front ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The pair dated for eight years before the wedding.

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Movies Alicia Silverstone has stared in:

Alicia Silverstone has stared in A Beautiful Mind

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Blast From the Past

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Butterfly

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Cecil B. DeMented

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Drive Me Crazy

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Rain

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Urban Legend

Some Films Alicia Silverstone has stared in:

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Blast From the Past

Alicia Silverstone has stared in Get Real

Alicia Silverstone Related Quotes

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. by Borman, Frank

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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. by Butler, Samuel

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To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep. by Chinese Proverb

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All animals but men know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it -and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow it. by Butler, Samuel

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Alicia Silverstone's 'Clueless,' Along With 'Mean Girls' and 'Pretty in Pink,' Becomes A Video Game (MTV Music Television)

The trend of female-favorite movies-turned-games continues with Legacy Interactive's "OMG High School" series of "Mean Girls," "Clueless" and "Pretty In Pink."

Red carpet revue: Christine Taylor, Katie Holmes, Alicia Silverstone and more (The Star-Ledger)

KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES Christine Taylor at the Los Angeles Premiere of "Tropic Thunder" August 11. MATT SAYLES/AP PHOTO Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes at the "Tropic Thunder" premiere in Los Angeles.

Photos of the Day - 11/08/2008 (British Vogue)

Katie Holmes outshone husband Tom Cruise in a stunning navy dress and matching heels at the movie premiere of Tropic Thunder in LA yesterday, while Alicia Silverstone kept it simple in an LBD. Sienna was also working LBD - hers, with flat sandals - whilst out and about in Malibu.

Star-studded premiere for ?Tropic Thunder? (Philippine Daily Inquirer)

LOS ANGELES, California?Just as he did with his hip-hop dancing, wicked movie mogul cameo appearance in ?Tropic Thunder,? Tom Cruise, with wife Katie Holmes, stole the red carpet scene at the premiere last Monday of the action-comedy at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood.

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Robert Downey Jr enjoys a challenge. The 43-year-old actor has overcome plenty, whether it was his battle with drugs in the 1990s and early 2000s that landed him in jail, or roles few actors could pull off, such as his best actor Oscar-nominated performance in Chaplin.

Downey plays Aussie playing black American (Otago Daily Times)

When Ben Stiller phoned him a year or so ago, Downey wondered if he had finally met his match. The role Stiller was offering Downey was an odd one.

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'Tropic' demonstrators chant 'Ban the movie!' (Los Angeles Times)

"R-word = hate speech." The protesters urged people to boycott "Tropic Thunder."

Local group joins national protest against new action flick (Baltimore Examiner)

Actor and director Ben Stiller's new comedy action movie, "Tropic Thunder," is coming under fire by disability advocates nationwide, including one in Howard County.

Infrared carpet: Ill-dressed divas wilt under spotlight (Boston Herald)

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