The US Trends | Alicia Silverstone | Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, author,and former fashion model. Silverstone 1st came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith,and is perhaps best known for her rolesIn Hollywood films such as Clueless(1995)and her portrayal of BATGIRL in Batman & Robin(1997). Alicia Silverstone was born in SanFrancisco,California,the daughter of Deirdre"Didi", a Scottish-born former Pan Am flight attendant,and Monty Silverstone,an English-born real-estate investor and part-time actor. Alicia Silverstone was raised in a"traditional Jewish household";her father,a native of east London,is Jewish,and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage.Silverstone is the youngest of three children and also has a half-sister,London based rock singer Kezi Silverstone,and a half-brother, David Silverstone,both from her father's previous marriage.Silverstone attended Crocker Middle School and then San Mateo High School,but did not complete her high school studies.When she was six years old, she began modeling and was subsequently cast in television commercials,the 1st being for Domino//'s Pizza.She acquired some early modeling and advertising work and was eventually cast as"dream girl"Jessica on the episode"Road Test"of TheWonder Years.
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Alicia Silverstone won several awards for her film performances,including MTV Movie Awards,National Board of Review,Young Artist Awards,and an American Comedy Award.She has been nominated for an Emmy award and a Golden Globe Award.During her career,she turned down several key roles in films,including DedeTruitt inThe Opposite of Sex and a role in Scream3.She was also considered for roles in Scream2,Bewitched,Little Women and Heartbreakers.She turned down the role of Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills,90210 in1994;Tiffani Thiessen was cast instead.
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Alicia Silverstone won a leading part in the1993 film The Crush,playing a teenaged girl who sets out to ruin an older man after he spurns her affections;she won 2 awards at the1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role—Best Breakthrough Performance and BestVillain.Silverstone became legally emancipated at the age of 16 in order to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of the film.Also in1993, Silverstone auditioned for the lead role of AngelaChase inthe ABC TV series My SoCalled Life,but Claire Danes was chosen for the role instead. Alicia Silverstone made some television movies in her early career including Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy andScattered Dreams. After seeing her in The Crush,Marty Callner decided Silverstone would be perfect for a role in a music video he was directing for the band Aerosmith,called "Cryin'";she was subsequently cast in 2 more videos,"Amazing"and"Crazy".These were hugely successful for both the band and Silverstone,making her a household name(and also gaining her the nickname,"the Aerosmith chick").They also got her noticed by filmmaker AmyHeckerling,who,after seeing them,decided to cast her inClueless.
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Clueless became a sleeper hit and critical darling during the summer of1995.Silverstone's performance was well received,and she was branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation.As a result,she signed a deal with Columbia TriStar worth $ 10 million.As part of the package, she got a 3-year first look deal for her own production company,First Kiss Productions. Alicia Silverstone also won"Best Female Performance" and"Most Desirable Female" at the1996 MTV Movie Awards for her performance in the film.In the same year Silverstone starred in the erotic thriller,The Babysitter, film adaptation of the novel by Dean Koontz,Hideaway,and the French drama about Americans,New World.
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Silverstone's next role was as Batgirl in Batman & Robin,and while it was not a critical success,the film grossed $ 238,207,122 worldwide.Silverstone's turn as Batgirl was not well received,and won her a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.She also, however, won a BlimpAward at the Kid's Choice Awards for the role. She suffered further bad press for allegedly striking a pedestrian with her vehicle in a crosswalk.In addition to Batman & Robin, Silverstone also starred alongside Benicio del Toro and ChristopherWalken in 1997's dark comedy Excess Baggage,which was the first movie to be released by her production company,First Kiss Productions.
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Alicia Silverstone ended the1990s with the Saturn Award nominated romance / comedy film Blast from thePast which also stars Brendan Fraser,Christopher Walken andSissy Spacek.In40 Hottest Hotties of the '90s she was ranked No.#5. Topsocialite.com listed her as the Third Sexiest woman of the '90s. In2000, Alicia Silverstone appeared in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost,in which she was required to sing and dance. In 2001, Silverstone provided the voice of Sharon Spitz,the lead character in the Canadian animated television Braceface. During this time she also made the films GlobalHeresy andScorched. In2002,she made her Broadway debut alongside Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs in The Graduate. After removing herself from the public eye for a few years, she resurfaced in the short-lived 2003 NBC television show Miss Match,which was canceled after 11 episodes.Silverstone later acknowledged that she hates the trappings of fame,saying,"Fame is not anything I wish on anyone.You start acting because you love it.Then success arrives,and suddenly you're on show". After the cancellation of Miss Match in2003, Alicia Silverstone did a pilot with Fox called Queen B,in which she played a former high school prom queen named Beatrice(Bea)who has discovered that the real world is nothing like high school.It was not picked up for production.In 2005,she costarred with QueenLatifah in Beauty Shop,a spin-off of the Barber-Shop films,as one of the stylists in the beauty shop.In the same year, she played a reporter alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie PrinzeJr. inScooby Doo-2:Monsters Unleashed,which did well financially,and appeared in the direct to video film Silence BecomesYou. In2006, Alicia Silverstone starred in anABC pilot called Pink Collar,in which her character worked in a law firm.Like Queen B,this pilot was not picked up for syndication.That year she also starred alongside Alex Pettyfer,Ewan McGregor andMickey Rourke in the film Stormbreaker,and appeared in theHallmark Hall of Fame made for TV movie Candles on Bay Street,based on the book by CathiePelletier.Silverstone continued her theatre work,next appearing in David Mamet's Boston Marriage and Speed the Plow.In2008,Alicia Silverstone filmed anotherABC pilot alongside Megan Mullally calledBad Mother's Handbook and made a cameo appearance in the comedy film Tropic Thunder.
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In early2009,Alicia Silverstone starred in the world premiere of Donald Margulies'sTime StandsStill at theGeffen Playhouse LA.The play focuses on a longtime couple and journalistic team who return to NewYork from an extended stint in the war-torn Middle East.In a review, Alicia Silverstone was described as"a formidable stage presence who creates sparks whenever she performs". Alicia Silverstone filmed a small segment inElektra Luxx,a sequel toWomen InTrouble. Director SebastianGutierrez cut her segment but will possibly use it for a 3rd installment,tentatively titledWomen InEcstasy.She also starred in the music video for Rob Thomas's 2009single "Her Diamonds".
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Alicia Silverstone reprised her role inTime Stands Still alongside LauraLinney in theNew York production of the play onBroadway,which premiered onJanuary 28,2010,directed byDaniel Sullivan,who described Silverstone as"a breath of fresh air ."The play received good reviews withThe New York Times praising Silverstone,saying she"brings warmth,actorly intelligence and delicate humour."
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Alicia Silverstone next appeared in the teen romanceThe Art of Getting By,which premiered at the2011Sundance Film Festival.
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Alicia Silverstone will appear in Butter as the adoptive mother of a twelve year old African American girl who enters a local butter sculpture competition in a small Iowa town,alongside JenniferGarner,HughJackman, Olivia Wilde andAshley Greene.The movie is said to be inspired byHillary Clinton and Barack Obama//'s battle to secure the Democratic nomination for president.Rob Corddry, who plays her husband, invited her to appear in an episode of his showChildrens Hospital.Alicia Silverstone is also set to appear alongside Sigourney Weaver and Krysten Ritter in director Amy Heckerling's vampire film,Vamps,playing one of two vampires who fall in love and face a choice that could jeopardise their immortality.Alicia Silverstone was offered the role afterHeckerling came to see her in Time StandsStill.
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Alicia Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend, rock musician (for the band STUN)and basketball coach Christopher Jarecki,in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe,on June11, 2005.After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage.They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother.
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Alicia Silverstone and Jarecki live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden.She bought the house,shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs,"in1996. In2009, Alicia Silverstone releasedThe Kind Diet,a guide to vegan nutrition,and launched its associated website The Kind Life.The Kind Diet has topped The New York Times best sellers list.The book was mostly ghostwritten by nutritionist Jessica Porter.
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OnJanuary 14,2011,it was announced thatSilverstone andJarecki were expecting their first child together.On May 5,2011, Alicia Silverstone gave birth to a boy,who they named Bear BluJarecki.Alicia Silverstone is noted for being an animal rights and environmental activist.She became a vegan in1998 after attending an animal rights meeting." I realized that I was the problem,"she told InStyle Home,in Spring 2007." I was an animal lover who was eating animals."She has revealed she struggled with childhood vegetarianism stating "There were times when I would get selfish and eat meat—at eight years old it's hard to stick to your guns—and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian."In2004, Silverstone was voted" Sexiest Female Vegetarian"by PETA.In2007,Silverstone appeared nude in a print advertisement and 30-second commercial forPETA championing vegetarianism;the TV spot was subsequently pulled from theHouston, Texas, market by Comcast Cable.Alicia Silverstone has set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in LosAngeles.
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Federal campaign contribution records also reveal that Silverstone contributed US$500 to Dennis Kucinich//'s 2004presidential campaign. Alicia Silverstone also supported Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.In2009, Alicia Silverstone appeared in" The Gaythering Storm ,"a Funny or Die spoof internet video parodying anti-same-sex marriage commercial" The Gathering Storm. "Alicia Silverstone also appeared in" My Mother's Red Hat "with Alanis Morissette parodying indie movies.
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