Alicia Silverstone Biography

Alicia Silverstone Biography

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

Nickname
Queen Slice

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)

Alicia Silverstone Biography

Alicia Silverstone was born on October four, 1976, in San Francisco, California, the youngest of 3 kids 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 dad took some photos of his young daughter, that eventually led to her obtaining many tv commercials. when a guest spot on "The surprise Years" (1988) as a literal "dream girl" she moved on to movies. She landed a job within the Crush (1993), a form of Fatal Attraction (1987) for teenagers during which she portrayed a disturbed young lady hooked in to an older man. The nasty very little role did not impress the essential institution however it wowed its target audience: teenagers. In fact, the role won her the 1994 MTV Movie Award for "Best Villain" and "Breakthrough Performance". it's attention-grabbing to notice that in the filming of the movie, Alicia became an emancipated minor so as to urge around kid labor laws which might have interfered together with her operating hours. She was a fanatical actress from ahead of time. The film conjointly caught the eye of Aerosmith, who employed her to seem in an exceedingly string of their music videos. the primary of them, "Cryin'", was voted the #1 video of all time on MTV. Silverstone was positively successful with the MTV crowd, however larger business success still eluded her. that each one modified 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 point around she was an expensive, naive nonetheless endearing lady from Beverly Hills in search of affection within the Nineteen Nineties. The film was an enormous box-office hit and wowed each audiences and critics alike and demonstrated Alicia's strength and bankability. She was hailed because the lady of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an rising young generation. She signed a trot out Columbia Tristar price $10 million and got the coveted role of Batgirl within the Batman franchise. Also, as a part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, 1st Kiss Productions. the primary film released by 1st Kiss was Excess Baggage (1997).

Spouse
Christopher Jarecki     (11 June 2005 - present) 1 child

Trade Mark

Short stature

Sweet voice

Trivia

Refuses to look nude in any of her movies. She needs a body double in her place for nude scenes. Also, when starring within the stage version of "The Graduate," she insisted on sporting underwear for the famous nude-scene. The producers were forced to let her do that as a result of, otherwise, she would have resigned from the show.

Was offered the role of Valerie Malone, on "Beverly Hills, 90210" (1990). Since it absolutely was the start 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 however raised in England and her father was born in England.

First business was for Domino's Pizza.

Became legally emancipated at fifteen so as to figure the hours needed 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 significant for the half. The role visited Katherine Heigl.

Attended San Mateo highschool 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 task in Scream three (2000).

Voted one in every 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 suppose that Clueless (1995) was terribly deep. i feel it had been deep within the means that it had been terribly light-weight. i feel lightness needs to return from a really deep place if it's true lightness".

She is an animal rights activist. throughout the filming of Clueless (1995), she adopted a raggedy recent mutt, whom she found wandering the streets of la. She named him "Samson," and kept him on the set.

In answer to the question 'Is it true that you just wish to do gardening naked?' within the UK's 'Radio Times' magazine (22.5.04) she said, 'Yes, that's one thing that I relish doing. i do not savvy you recognize that however it's ... not untrue. It's simply that if it's very hot and you are in LA, and you happen to be doing a little gardening -- your garments return off. I conjointly wish to swim naked and trampoline naked and do all those reasonably 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.

Announced that she is 5 months pregnant with her first child (14 January 2011).

Gave birth to her son Bear Blu Jarecki, with husband Christopher Jarecki, via water birth in Los Angeles, weighing in at 7lbs 15oz (5 May 2011).

Was 6 months pregnant with her son Bear when she completed filming on Ass Backwards (2011).

Returned to work 2 months after giving birth to her son Bear to begin filming Gods Behaving Badly (2012).

Is good friends with Alanis Morissette.

Ranked #66 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011).

Personal Quotes

I don't feel sort of a dream lady, however i feel it's very nice. i suppose a vicinity of me needs I got that kind of attention in my real life. as a result of in my real life, i am this weird, dorky lady who simply hangs out along with her dog.

I hate individuals to decision me 'that Aerosmith chick!'

I think that Clueless (1995) was terribly deep. i feel it absolutely was deep within the means that it absolutely was terribly light-weight. i feel lightness has got to return from a awfully deep place if it's true lightness.

"My boyfriend calls me 'princess', however i feel of myself a lot of along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'".

On her 'chocolate is best than sex' quote: "I was interviewed after I was seventeen and that i did not really say that. it absolutely was the worst piece of journalism that I've ever been concerned with."

Some days I rouse and suppose 'what's wrong' and i might notice it's nothing aside from waking up during a not thus nice a mood. usually I feel smart though. i am going to yoga, I feel nice. i like to rouse on Sundays - simply hang around with the dogs.

My folks taught me regarding alternative cultures. I hung out in Africa, Cuba, Europe, Jamaica, the Amazon which was nothing to try to to with work.

To be place during a position at fifteen where individuals are saying how horny you're is absolutely awkward, thus I did all I might to undertake and diffuse that. It's solely currently that I've began to feel like I've become a woman.

I'm not addicted to being within the public eye. it isn't my job to impress individuals - i am very simply a operating actress and that i wish to choose comes and do things that actually inspire me.

The things that move me and excite me are not essentially progressing to be box-office hits all the time. My favorite film I've ever done was Love's Labour's Lost (2000) and that i suppose - in box-office terms - barely one person saw it. however I still suppose it is the greatest movie and that i do not care if anybody does not love it. I saw it in seven totally different countries and also the audience would depart the theatre dancing. i feel that is a fairly unbelievable factor.

I think those that genuinely do smart are nice individuals. and that i do not suppose, "Oh, there should be one thing wrong with them". i feel that there is one thing wrong with the folks that are not doing smart.

Everything you are doing within the name of the surroundings not solely saves your health, it saves your soul.

[on Clueless (1995)] Cher Horowitz is aware of she's the foremost lovely, most clearly vital person within the world-her world-yet he does not very realize the remainder of the planet. She evolve within the film and sees there is a lot of to life than her wardrobe. Cher eventually realizes she's lovely attributable to who she is within, not attributable to her look.

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.