Elisabeth Shue Biography
Elisabeth Shue is an American actress, known for her starring roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), and Piranha 3D (2010). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2012 to 2015.
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She was born in Wilmington, Delaware, United States on 6 October 1963.She is 55 years of age as of 2018.
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She has an estimated net worth of $ 12.5 million.
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She was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Anne Brewster and James William Shue (1936–2013 .Anne Brewster was born in 1938 while James William was born in 1936 and died in 2013. He father was a one-time congressional candidate, lawyer, and real estate developer, who was president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation. Her mother was a vice president in the private banking division of the Chemical Banking Corporation.
When she was nine years old, her parents divorced .Her mother is a descendant of Pilgrim eader William Brewster, while her father’s family migrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 19th century
She was raised along with her three siblings, William, Andrew and John. Her brother Andrew, is also an actor, best known for his role as Billy Campbell in the Fox series Melrose Place.
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In 1994, She exchanged her wedding vows with Philip Davis Guggenheim, a film director . Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American film and television director and producer. His credits include NYPD Blue, ER, 24, Alias, The Shield, Deadwood, and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth, The Road We’ve Traveled, Waiting for ‘Superman’ and He Named Me Malala.
They both have three children: Miles William who was born in 1997 , Stella Street,born in 2001 , and Agnes Charles, born 2006.
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On August 24, 1988, her brother died accidentally at the age of 26 from a freak swimming accident while on family vacation. He intending to swing on an old rope tied to a tree and splash into a pond, the rope broke, dropping William onto a broken tree branch instead, impaling him.
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Nicolas Cage And Elisabeth Shue
The movie was based on a book no one ever read by an author who committed suicide two weeks after his book was optioned to be made for the big screen. But Hollywood loves underdog stories, and “Leaving Las Vegas” was one of the biggest of the mid-1990s.
The film is also heightened by an incredible lounge-lizard score composed by Figgis himself, along with some classic jazz songs performed by Sting, which give you that crummy-dive-bar feel.
Cage’s Ben moves from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, where the bars never close and drinking outside is sanctioned. After he meets a kindred spirit in a prostitute named Sera (Elisabeth Shue), his life suddenly has promise, though he’s too driven to ruin it to take notice.
Ben and Sera go out on the Strip and decide to gamble. Completely plastered, Ben is at the blackjack table with Sera. Figgis mounts the camera up in the rafters, giving us the feeling of snooping (possibly a practical choice, since Figgis has said that he shot the film with very few permits). A waitress asks if they want another drink. Ben first says no, then—almost as if realizing he cannot pass up a drink even when he doesn’t want one—tells her he does. Then he goes into a blind rage, breaking glasses, pushing people, and turning over the blackjack table. Security finally shows up and we can make out Ben yelling, “I am his father!”
The film “Leaving Las Vegas” earned Cage the Best Actor Oscar at the 68th Academy Awards in 1996 (Shue was nominated for Best Actress). Though he would excel in movies like “Adaptation,” “World Trade Center,” and “Joe” after the Oscar win, it’s Cage’s over-the-top performances in B-movies (“The Wicker Man,” “Ghost Rider”) that now come to mind for most. Things have been worse for Figgis and Shue, as the film turned out to be the peak in both of their careers. And time has not been as kind as it should to “Leaving Las Vegas”—the only place you can currently stream it is on iTunes.
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