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| Elisabeth Shue - Actress
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| Elisabeth Shue Profile |
| Name : |
Elisabeth Shue |
| Birth Name : |
Elisabeth Judson Shue |
| Date of Birth : |
October 6, 1963 |
| Place of Birth : |
Wilmington, Delaware< USA |
| Profession : |
Actress |
| Sex : |
Female |
| Nationality : |
American |
| Education : |
Wellesley College, Massachusetts (majored in Government).
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (majored in Political Science). |
| Husband : |
Davis Guggenheim (Director - born 1964. Married in 1994 and separated in 1996. Reconciled) |
| Height : |
5' 2" |
| Father : |
James Shue (Real-estate Developer) |
| Mother : |
Anne Shue (Bank Executive) |
| Son : |
Miles William Guggenheim (born November 11, 1997) |
| Daughter : |
Agnes Charles (born June 18, 2006), Stella Street (born March 19, 2001) |
| Brother : |
Andrew Shue (Actor - born February 20, 1967), William Shue (born 1962; died 1988 in a swimming accident during a family vacation) |
| Claim to Fame : |
As Sera in Leaving Las Vegas (1995) |
| Elisabeth Shue Biography |
Given her contrast-laden background, it's not surprising that Shue portrays both goody-goody and baddy-baddy with equal aplomb. On the one hand, she comes from a well-heeled Northeastern family, descended from Mayflower passengers and educated in the Ivy League for generations; on the other, Shue's parents split up when she was in fourth grade and, since both worked long hours, their children found ample time for trouble of the suburban adolescent variety-driving without a license, recreational drug use, and so on. After high school, Shue enrolled at Wellesley College, an all-women school where she says she appreciated the scholastic isolation from booze and boys.
By her junior year, Shue was looking for a way to supplement her income and social life, so she followed a friend's example and pursued work as a actress in television commercials. At her first audition, Shue's athletic skills impressed the producers, who hired her to plug a Florida theme park by doing cartwheels and flips. |
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