In 2003, Silverstone co-starred with Woody Harrelson, Rachael Leigh Cook, and John Cleese in the small-scale comedy Scorched, in which she portrayed one of several unhappy bank employees attempting to rob the same bank.
In the 2003 NBC comedy series Miss Match, she played Kate Fox, a Los Angeles matrimonial attorney who also works as a high-end matchmaker. Sadly, the show was canceled after only 11 episodes, despite Silverstone’s Golden Globe nomination for her performance.
Silverstone co-starred with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr. in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed in 2004 as a news reporter turned evil. Despite receiving unfavorable reviews, the picture grossed $181 million worldwide. She co-starred in Beauty Shop, a comic offshoot of the Barbershop franchise, with Queen Latifah in 2005.
Silence Becomes You, a thriller in which Silverstone starred, was released straight to DVD in 2005. That same year, she appeared in two television pilots: Queen B, in which she played a delusional former high school prom queen, and Pink Collar, in which she played a woman working in a law firm. Sadly, neither pilot was picked up for a full season.
Why did they change Alicia Silverstone’s name in the crush?
Adrian’s inspiration, Darian, filed a lawsuit against him after learning that her real name was used for Alicia Silverstone’s role. As a result, the character’s name was changed from Darian to Adrian when the movie was re-edited for television.
How was Alicia Silverstone cast in Clueless?
The character Cher Horowitz appears in the 1995 movie Clueless. (In the movie, Alicia Silverstone; in the TV show, Rachel Blanchard) Cherilyn Andi “Cher” Horowitz, a pleasant, occasionally airheaded blonde teenager who resides in Beverly Hills, California, with her wealthy lawyer father, was born on April 22, 1979.