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Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is a popular American film actress.

Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into a well-heeled and well-educated family and grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade. Her father, who was active in Republican politics, once unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Shue graduated Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey attended Wellesley College and Harvard College and acted in television commercials for extra spending money.

Her brother is Melrose Place
actor Andrew Shue. Another brother, William, died at age 26 in a freak accident while on family vacation in 1988; as both siblings watched on helplessly, William was impaled on a tree.

In 1984, she co-starred in The Karate Kid
as the onscreen girlfriend of Ralph Macchio and had a role as the teenage daughter of a military family in the short-lived series Call to Glory.

She continued her acting work with Adventures in Babysitting
(which was Shue's first starring role), Cocktail, Soapdish
and The Marrying Man, as well as playing the role of Jennifer Parker in the two Back to the Future
sequels. Claudia Wells played Jennifer Parker in the original Back to the Future movie.

Trying to shed her girl-next-door image, Elisabeth took a chance on a low-budget, high-risk project called Leaving Las Vegas
. Her portrayal of a prostitute mixed up with a suicidal alcoholic (played by Nicholas Cage) earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Since then, she has starred in The Saint, Deconstructing Harry
, Palmetto and Hollow Man
.

She is married to Davis Guggenheim director of the HBO TV series Deadwood. They have a son, Miles William, and a daughter, Stella Street.

Partial filmography

The Karate Kid
(1984
)
Link
(1986
)
Adventures in Babysitting
(1987
)
Cocktail
(1988
)
Back to the Future Part II
(1989
)
Back to the Future Part III
(1990
)
Heart and Souls
(1993
)
Leaving Las Vegas
(1995
)
The Trigger Effect (1996
)
The Saint
(1997
)
Molly
(1999
)
Hollow Man
(2000
)
Hide and Seek
(2005
)
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
(2005)

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Actors - Elisabeth Shue

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