Alicia
Silverstone
was born on October 4, 1976 in San Francisco. Her
mother Didi is a former airline stewardess and her father Monty
is a real
estate investor. Alicia has a brother, his name is David. Her
parents
are English and she spent her early summers in England.She
is 170 cm heigh and her eye color is emerald. Carolyn Kessler
is
her best friend as well as her agent. Alicia has a dog called
Samson,
described as a "rotweiller-pit bull-doberman".Alicia
started her career with a commercial for Domino's Pizza. In 1988
her first role was on the TV-show "The Wonder Years",
where she played
Kevin's dream girl.She
became legally emancipated at the age of 15 to work the long hours
required by "The Crush's" shooting schedule. She refused
to appear nude
in "The Crush." A body double was hired for the nude
shots. Alicia
stood firm on her no-nudity policy,turning down the title role
in "The
Babysitter" numerous times until the filmmakers got rid of
all nudity from
the script.
She
won "best villan" and "breakthrough performance"
at the 1994 MTV
movie awards for her performance in "The Crush." Alicia
became very
famous by appearing in three music videos with Aerosmith. The
were all big
hits. Cryin, the first of Alicia's three Aerosmith videos, was
honored
as the best video of all time on MTV.
Alicia
also did some theatre work. She played a lesbian coke addict in
a play "Carol's Eve".
Film
roles Alicia turned down or missed: Missed on My Father the Hero
because she was a little bit heavy compared to Katherine Heigl.
Missed
on Little Women due to age. Turned down replacing Shannon Doherty
on
Beverly Hills 90210.
After
becoming famous to everybody in the Aerosmith videos, she made
"Clueless" which was a major success and made Alicia
a superstar.
The
people who hadn't heard of Alicia after "Clueless" and
the
Aerosmith videos, got to know her when she played Batgirl in the
latest Batman
movie, directed by Joel Schuemacher.
She
recently started a production company called "First Kiss
Production". The company has produced the movie "Excess
Baggage" together with
Columbia Pictures.