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Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone, Festival of Books.jpg
Silverstone in 2010

Born
October 4, 1976 (age 37)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, producer, author
Years active
1992–present
Spouse(s)
Christopher Jarecki (m. 2005)
Children
1
Website
www.thekindlife.com
Alicia Silverstone (/əˈliːsiə ˈsɪlvərstoʊn/; born October 4, 1976) is an American actress, film and television producer, author, and animal rights and environmental activist.[1] Silverstone made her film debut in The Crush, earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in three music videos for the band Aerosmith. She starred in the 1995 sleeper hit Clueless (which earned her a multi-million-dollar deal with Columbia) and in the big-budget 1997 film Batman & Robin where she played Batgirl. She has continued to act in film, television, and theatre.
A vegan, Silverstone endorsed PETA activities and published a book titled The Kind Diet.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Career 2.1 1990s
2.2 2000s
2.3 2010s
3 Personal life 3.1 Political beliefs
4 Filmography and credits
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Silverstone was born in Hillsborough, California, the daughter of parents from the United Kingdom - Deirdre "Didi" (née Radford), a Scottish-born former Pan Am flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, a real estate agent born in England.[2][3] She has two older siblings, a half-sister from her father's previous marriage named Kezi Silverstone and a brother named David Silverstone. She grew up in an upper-middle class home in the San Francisco Peninsula town of Hillsborough, California.[4] Her father was born to a Jewish family and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage.[5] She began modeling when she was six years old,[6] and was subsequently cast in television commercials, the first being for Domino's Pizza.[7] She attended Crocker Middle School and then San Mateo High School.[8]
Career[edit]
Silverstone won several awards for her film performances. She received multiple MTV Movie Awards and a Young Artist Award for The Crush. For Clueless she received multiple MTV Movie Awards and a Young Artist Award once again, plus awards from Blockbuster Entertainment Award, Kids' Choice Awards, National Board of Review, and an American Comedy Award.[9]
1990s[edit]
Her first credited role was in The Wonder Years starring Fred Savage in the episode entitled "Road Test", as Savage's high school "dream girl". Silverstone then 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.[4] Silverstone became legally emancipated at the age of 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of the film.[7] Silverstone made some television movies in her early career including Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy[4] and Scattered Dreams.
After seeing her in The Crush, Marty Callner decided Silverstone 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").[10] After seeing Silverstone in the three videos, filmmaker Amy Heckerling decided to cast her in Clueless.[11]
Clueless became a sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995.[12] As a result, she signed a deal with Columbia-TriStar valued between $8 and $10 million.[13][14] 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 Awards for her performance in the film. In the same year Silverstone starred in the erotic thriller, The Babysitter,[4] 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 success,[15] the film grossed $238,207,122 worldwide.[16] Silverstone's turn as Batgirl was not well received, and won her a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.[17] She also, however, won a Blimp Award at the Kid's Choice Awards for the role. Also released in 1997 was Excess Baggage, the first movie by Silverstone's production company, First Kiss Productions. She starred alongside Benicio del Toro and Christopher Walken.[2]
In 1999, Silverstone starred in the Saturn Award-nominated romance/comedy film Blast from the Past which also stars Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken and Sissy Spacek. In VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the '90s she was ranked #5.[18]
2000s[edit]
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. In 2002, she made her Broadway debut alongside Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs in The Graduate.[4] After removing herself from the public eye for a few years, she resurfaced in the short-lived 2003 NBC television series Miss Match, which was canceled after 11 episodes. Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame, saying, "Fame is not anything I wish on anyone. You start acting because you love it. Then success arrives, and suddenly you're on show".[19]



 Alicia Silverstone in 2005.
After the cancellation of Miss Match in 2003, Silverstone did a pilot with Fox called Queen B, in which she played a former high school prom queen named Beatrice (Bea) who has discovered that the real world is nothing like high school.[20] It was not picked up for production. In 2005, she co-starred with Queen Latifah in Beauty Shop, a spinoff of the BarberShop films, as one of the stylists in the beauty shop.[4] In the same year, she played a reporter alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, which did well financially, and appeared in the direct-to-video film Silence Becomes You.[4]
In 2006, Silverstone starred in an ABC pilot called Pink Collar, in which her character worked in a law firm. Like Queen B, this pilot was not picked up for syndication. That year, she also starred alongside Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor and Mickey Rourke in the film Stormbreaker, and appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-TV movie Candles on Bay Street, based on the book by Cathie Pelletier.[4] Silverstone continued her theatre work, next appearing in David Mamet's Boston Marriage and Speed-the-Plow. In 2008, she filmed another ABC pilot alongside Megan Mullally called Bad Mother's Handbook and made a cameo appearance in the comedy film Tropic Thunder.[4]
In early 2009, Silverstone starred in the world premiere of Donald Margulies's Time Stands Still at the Geffen Playhouse LA.[21] The play focuses on a longtime couple and journalistic team who return to New York from an extended stint in the war-torn Middle East. She also starred in the music video for Rob Thomas's 2009 single "Her Diamonds".[22]
Silverstone filmed a small segment in Elektra Luxx, a sequel to Women In Trouble. Director Sebastian Gutierrez cut her segment but will possibly use it for a third installment, tentatively titled Women In Ecstasy.[23]
2010s[edit]
In 2010, she reprised her role in Time Stands Still alongside Laura Linney in the New York production of the play on Broadway, which premiered on January 28, 2010, directed by Daniel Sullivan, who described Silverstone as "a breath of fresh air."[24] The play received good reviews with The New York Times praising Silverstone, saying she "brings warmth, actorly intelligence and delicate humour."[25]
Silverstone next starred in the teen romance The Art of Getting By,[26] which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.[27] and appeared in four episodes of Suburgatory, reuniting with her Clueless castmate Jeremy Sisto.[28]
Her next role was in Butter as the adoptive mother of a 12-year old African American girl who enters a local butter sculpture competition in a small Iowa town. Rob Corddry, who plays her husband, invited her to appear in an episode of his show Childrens Hospital.[29] She also reunited with Clueless director Amy Heckerling in Vamps, playing one of two vampires who fall in love and face a choice that could jeopardise their immortality.[30] She was offered the role after Heckerling came to see her in Time Stands Still.[31]
Silverstone again returned to Broadway in the 2012 New York production of The Performers[32] She is next due to feature in Gods Behaving Badly,[33] Angels in Stardust.,[34] Ass Backwards[35][36] and TV pilot HR.[37]
Personal life[edit]
Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend, rock musician (for the band S.T.U.N.) Christopher Jarecki in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005.[38] After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage.[39] They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother.[40] Silverstone and Jarecki live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden.[39] She bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs," in 1996.[40]
In 2009, Silverstone released The Kind Diet, a guide to vegan nutrition, and launched its associated website The Kind Life.[41][42] The Kind Diet has topped the Hardcover Advice & Misc. category of The New York Times Best Seller list.[43] She plans to write two follow up books, The Kind Mama and The Kind Diet Cookbook.[44]
In January 2011, it was announced that Silverstone and Jarecki were expecting their first child together.[45] In May 2011, Silverstone gave birth to a boy, whom they named Bear Blu Jarecki.[46] In March 2012 she uploaded video of herself feeding pre-chewed food to her son from her own mouth, a process called premastication.[47][48] In response to criticism she made a statement that its been going on for thousands of years, and is perfectly natural.[49]
Political beliefs[edit]
Silverstone is noted for being an animal rights and environmental activist. She became a vegan in 1998 after attending an animal rights meeting, saying "I realized that I was the problem … I was an animal lover who was eating animals."[39] She has stated she struggled with childhood vegetarianism, stating "at eight years old it's hard to stick to your guns – and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian."[50] In 2004, Silverstone was voted "Sexiest Female Vegetarian" by PETA.[51] 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.[52] Silverstone has set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angeles.[53] In 2012, during the trial of Russian band Pussy Riot, she wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking that vegan meals be made available to all Russian prisoners.[54]
Federal campaign contribution records list Silverstone contributing $500 USD to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign.[55] She also supported Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.[56]
In 2009, she appeared in "A Gaythering Storm", a Funny or Die spoof internet video parodying anti-same-sex marriage commercial "The Gathering Storm."[57] She also appeared in "My Mother's Red Hat" with Alanis Morissette parodying indie movies.
Filmography and credits[edit]
Film

Year
Title
Role
Notes

1993 The Crush Darian/Adrian Forrester 
1993 Torch Song Delphine Television film
1993 Scattered Dreams Phyllis Messenger Television film
1994 Cool and the Crazy Roslyn Television film
1995 Le Nouveau monde Trudy Wadd 
1995 Hideaway Regina Harrison 
1995 Clueless Cher Horowitz 
1995 The Babysitter Jennifer Direct-to-video
1996 True Crime Mary Giordano Direct-to-video
1997 Batman & Robin Batgirl/Barbara Wilson 
1997 Excess Baggage Emily Hope Also uncredited producer
1999 Blast from the Past Eve Vrustikoff 
2000 Love's Labour's Lost The Princess of France 
2002 Global Heresy Natalie "Nat" Bevin 
2003 Scorched Sheila Rio 
2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Heather Jasper-Howe 
2005 Beauty Shop Lynn 
2005 Silence Becomes You Violet Direct-to-video
2006 Stormbreaker Jack Starbright 
2006 Candles on Bay Street Dee Dee Michaud Television film
2008 Tropic Thunder Herself Cameo appearance
2011 The Art of Getting By Ms. Herman 
2011 Butter Jill Emmet 
2012 Vamps Goody 
2013 Ass Backwards Laurel 
2013 Angels in Stardust Tammy Completed
2013 Gods Behaving Badly Kate Post-production

Television

Year
Title
Role
Notes

1992 The Wonder Years Jessica Thomas Episode: "Road Test"
1994 Rebel Highway Roslyn Episode: "Cool and the Crazy"
1998 Wildlife Vet[58] Herself TV documentary
2000–2001 Baby Felix & Friends Esmeralda (voice) 
2001–2005 Braceface Sharon Spitz (voice) Main cast (seasons 1–3); also executive producer
2003 Miss Match Kate Fox Main cast
2005 Queen B Beatrice "Bea" Unsold Fox pilot; also co-executive producer
2006 Pink Collar Hayden Flynn Unsold ABC pilot
2007 The Singles Table Georgia Unsold NBC pilot
2008 The Bad Mother's Handbook Karen Unsold ABC pilot
2011 Childrens Hospital Kelly Episode: "Munch by Proxy"
2012 Suburgatory Eden 4 episodes

Music videos

Year
Title
Role
Artist

1993 "Cryin'" Girl Aerosmith
1993 "Amazing" Girl Aerosmith
1994 "Crazy" Girl #1 Aerosmith
2009 "Her Diamonds" Frozen girl Rob Thomas
2011 "Fight for Your Right Revisited" Café patron Beastie Boys

Theatre

Year
Title
Role
Director
Writer

1993 Carol's Eve Debbie  Valerie Mayhew  Pauline Lepor
2002 The Graduate Elaine Robinson  Terry Johnson  Terry Johnson
2006 Boston Marriage Catherine  Karen Kohlhaas  David Mamet
2007 Speed-the-Plow Karen  Randall Arney  David Mamet
2009–2010 Time Stands Still Mandy  Daniel Sullivan  Donald Marguiles
2012 The Performers Sara  Evan Cabnet  David West Read

Awards and nominations[edit]
She was awarded a Heart Of Green Award in 2009, which "recognises individuals, organizations or companies who have helped green go mainstream."[59] In 2010, she was awarded a Voice Of Compassion Award by the Physician's Committee For Responsible Medicine for "shining a spotlight on the powerful health benefits of a vegan diet."[60]
Awards and nominations

Year
Award
Category
Title of work
Result

1994 MTV Movie Awards Best Villain The Crush Won
1994 MTV Movie Awards Best Breakthrough Performance The Crush Won
1994 MTV Movie Awards Most Desirable Female The Crush Nominated
1994 Young Artist Awards Best Young Leading Actress, Drama The Crush Nominated
1996 American Comedy Awards Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture Clueless Won
1996 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Best Female Newcomer Clueless Won
1996 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Clueless Nominated
1996 MTV Movie Awards Best Female Performance Clueless Won
1996 MTV Movie Awards Most Desirable Female Clueless Won
1996 MTV Movie Awards Best Comedic Performance Clueless Nominated
1996 National Board of Review Best Breakthrough Performer Clueless Won
1996 Young Artist Awards Best Young Leading Actress, Feature Film Clueless Nominated
1998 Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Supporting Actress, Sci-Fi Batman & Robin Nominated
1998 Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Supporting Actress Batman & Robin Won
1998 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Batman & Robin Won
2002 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Performer In An Animated Program Braceface Nominated
2004 Genesis Awards Children's TV Series Braceface Nominated
2004 Golden Globe Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy Miss Match Nominated
2004 Satellite Awards Best Actress, Musical or Comedy Series Miss Match Nominated

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External links[edit]

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Alicia Silverstone More at IMDbPro »

 

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Date of Birth
4 October 1976, San Francisco, California, USA

Nickname
Queen Slice

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Biography
Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children to Monty Silverstone, a real-estate investor, and Didi Silverstone, a former flight attendant. Alicia's career began at the tender age of six when her father took some photos of his young daughter, which eventually led to her getting several television commercials. After a guest spot on "The Wonder Years" (1988) as a literal "dream girl", she moved on to movies. She landed a role in The Crush (1993), a sort of Fatal Attraction (1987) for teenagers in which she portrayed a disturbed young girl obsessed with an older man. The nasty little role did not impress the critical establishment but it wowed its target audience: teenagers. In fact, the role won her the 1994 MTV Movie Award for "Best Villain" and "Breakthrough Performance". It is interesting to note that during the filming of the movie, Alicia became an emancipated minor in order to get around child labor laws which would have interfered with her working hours. She was a dedicated actress from early on.
The film also caught the attention of Aerosmith, who hired her to appear in a string of their music videos. The first of them, "Cryin'", was voted the #1 video of all time on MTV. Silverstone was definitely a hit with the MTV crowd, but larger commercial success still eluded her. That all changed when she landed the role of Cher in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995). Cher was the antithesis of Alicia's role in The Crush; this time around, she was a rich, naive yet endearing girl from Beverly Hills in search of love in the 1990s. The film was a huge box-office hit and wowed both audiences and critics alike and demonstrated Alicia's strength and bankability. She was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. She signed a deal with Columbia TriStar worth $10 million and got the coveted role of Batgirl in the Batman franchise. Also, as part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, First Kiss Productions. The first film released by First Kiss was Excess Baggage (1997).
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Spouse
Christopher Jarecki (11 June 2005 - present) 1 child

Trivia
Refuses to appear nude in any of her movies. She requires a body double in her place for nude scenes. Also, when starring in the stage version of "The Graduate," she insisted on wearing underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do this because, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show.
Was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990). Since it was the beginning of her career, Alicia turned it down, and Tiffani Thiessen got the role instead. [1994]
Is a vegan.
Parents are Scottish and English, her mother was born in Scotland but raised in England and her father was born in England.
First commercial was for Domino's Pizza.
Became legally emancipated at 15 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of The Crush (1993)
Was turned down for the lead in My Father the Hero (1994). They said she was too heavy for the part. The role went to Katherine Heigl.
Attended San Mateo High School in San Mateo, California. She was a cheerleader.
Daughter of Monty Silverstone
Half-sister of David Silverstone and Kezi Silverstone.
Born at 3:44pm-PDT
Was turned down for the role of Juliet in Romeo + Juliet (1996).
Was offered a role in Scream 3 (2000).
Voted one of the "Fun and Fearless Females" by Cosmopolitan Magazine (2002.)
Signed a $10,000,000 3-movie deal with Sony after Clueless (1995).
The Plain English Campaign awarded her the annual Foot in Mouth Award in 2000 for her 'baffling verbal statement', "I think that Clueless (1995) was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it is true lightness".
She is an animal rights activist. During the filming of Clueless (1995), she adopted a raggedy old mutt, whom she found wandering the streets of Los Angeles. She named him "Samson," and kept him on the set.
In answer to the question 'Is it true that you like to do gardening naked?' in the UK's 'Radio Times' magazine (22.5.04) she said, 'Yes, that is something that I enjoy doing. I don't know how you know about that but it's ... not untrue. It's just that if it's really hot and you're in LA, and you happen to be doing some gardening -- your clothes come off. I also like to swim naked and trampoline naked and do all those kind of things'.
Voted sexiest female vegetarian, 2004.
Went to William H. Crocker Middle School in Hillsborough, California.
Got a surprise grab-and-smooch by Jim Carrey at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards when she presented the Best Comedic Performance award to Carrey. Carrey apologized to her backstage after realizing that she felt very humiliated.
Was Bat Mitzvahed at Temple Beth Jacob in Redwood City, California.
Speaks French fluently.
Her wedding ring was made by Neil Lane.
Her wedding dress was designed by Monique Lhuillier.
She and her husband Christopher Jarecki are both vegans.
She married Christopher Jarecki at Lake Tahoe.
Is involved with PETA.
Ranked #5 on VH1's "Hottest Hotties of the 90's".
Is widely credited for popularizing navel piercing due to her prominent role in the Aerosmith music video, "Cryin", where her rebellious character gets her navel pierced. The piercing shown in the video did happen on set.
Was 6 months pregnant with her son Bear when she completed filming on Ass Backwards (2013).
Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her son Bear to begin filming Gods Behaving Badly (2013).
Is good friends with Alanis Morissette.
Ranked #66 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011).
Married her boyfriend of 8 years Christopher Jarecki following a 16-month-long engagement. [June 11, 2005]
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 34, a son Bear Blu Jarecki on May 5, 2011. Child's father is her husband, Christopher Jarecki.

Personal Quotes
I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.
I hate people to call me 'that Aerosmith chick!'
I think that Clueless (1995) was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.
"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'".
On her 'chocolate is better than sex' quote: "I was interviewed when I was 17 and I didn't actually say that. It was the worst piece of journalism that I've ever been involved with."
Some days I wake up and think 'what's wrong' and I'd realize it's nothing other than waking up in a not so great a mood. Generally I feel good though. I go to yoga, I feel great. I love to wake up on Sundays - just hang out with the dogs.
My parents taught me about other cultures. I spent time in Africa, Cuba, Europe, Jamaica, the Amazon and that was nothing to do with work.
To be put in a position at 15 where people are saying how sexy you are is really awkward, so I did all I could to try and diffuse that. It's only now that I've started to feel like I've become a lady.
I'm not obsessed with being in the public eye. It's not my job to impress people - I'm really just a working actress and I like to pick projects and do things that really inspire me.
The things that move me and excite me aren't necessarily going to be box-office hits all the time. My favorite film I've ever done was Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and I think - in box-office terms - barely one person saw it. But I still think it's the greatest movie and I don't care if anybody doesn't like it. I saw it in seven different countries and the audience would leave the theatre dancing. I think that's a pretty incredible thing.
I think people that genuinely do good are great people. And I don't think, "Oh, there must be something wrong with them". I think that there's something wrong with the people who aren't doing good.
Everything you do in the name of the environment not only saves your health, it saves your soul.
[on Clueless (1995)] Cher Horowitz knows she's the most beautiful, most obviously important person in the world-her world-yet he doesn't really know about the rest of the world. She evolve in the film and sees there's more to life than her wardrobe. Cher eventually realizes she's beautiful because of who she is inside, not because of her appearance.
[on River Phoenix] I loved River Phoenix so much. I never met him, but I wanted to marry him. So if we'd ever been stuck in an elevator, all I would want to do is make him fall in love with me. [1995 "The Scene" Magazine]

Salary
Clueless (1995) $250,000
Batman & Robin (1997) $1,500,000
Excess Baggage (1997) $5,000,000

Where Are They Now
(February 2010) On Broadway as "Mandy" in "Time Stands Still", a new play by Donald Margulies, directed by Danie Sullivan. With Eric Bogosian, Brian d'Arcy James and Laura Linney.



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