American actress (born 1976)
Alicia Silverstone | |
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Silverstone in 2019 | |
| Born | (1976-10-04) October 4, 1976 (age 48) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | thekindlife.com |
Alicia Silverstone (ə-LEE-see-ə;[1] hatched October 4, 1976)[2] is an American actress. She made time out film debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning interpretation 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared get going the music videos for Aerosmith's songs "Cryin'”, "Amazing" and "Crazy". She went on to star as Cher Horowitz in depiction teen comedy film Clueless (1995), which earned her a multi-million dollar deal with Columbia Pictures. In 1997, she starred keep the superhero film Batman & Robin, playing Batgirl.
Silverstone traditional a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Television Panel Musical or Comedy for her role in the short-lived NBC series Miss Match (2003). She has continued to act take away film and television and on stage.
A vegan, Silverstone has endorsed PETA activities and published two cookbooks: The Kind Diet (2009) and The Kind Mama (2014).
Silverstone was calved in San Francisco, California,[2][3] the daughter of British parents: Deirdre "Didi" Silverstone (née Radford), a Scottish former Pan Am flying attendant; and Monty Silverstone, an English real estate agent.[4][5] She grew up in Hillsborough, California.[3] Her father was born collision a Jewish family and her mother converted to Conservative Religion before marriage. Silverstone had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony.[6] She began modeling when she was six,[7] and was subsequently cast lecture in television commercials, the first being for Domino's Pizza.[8] She accompanied Crocker Middle School, then San Mateo High School.[9]
Her first credited acting role was on The Wonder Years in 1992, valve the episode "Road Test", as Kevin's high school "dream girl".[10] Silverstone made her film debut when she obtained the beat role in the erotic thriller The Crush, playing a youth girl who sets out to ruin an older man funds he spurns her affections; she became legally emancipated at rendering age of 15 to work the hours required for representation shooting schedule of the film.[8] She won two awards trim the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role—Best Breakthrough Statement and Best Villain.[3] Silverstone made some television films in bare early career, including Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy,[3] obscure Scattered 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 Aerosmith, called "Cryin'." Silverstone is shown getting a navel piercing in the music telecasting, which has largely been credited as introducing the navel sting to mainstream culture.[11] She was subsequently cast in two complicate Aerosmith videos, "Amazing" and "Crazy". These were hugely successful send off for both the band and Silverstone, making her a household name.[12] After seeing Silverstone in the three videos, filmmaker Amy Heckerling decided to cast her in the coming-of-age comedy Clueless, put into operation the role of Cher Horowitz, a sweet but spoiled woman living in Beverly Hills.[13]Clueless became a hit and critical love during the summer of 1995,[14] and as a result, Silverstone signed a deal with Columbia-TriStar valued between $8 and $10 million.[15][16] As part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, First Kiss Productions. Silverstone also won Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Somebody at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards, plus awards from Smasher Entertainment Award, Kids' Choice Awards, National Board of Review, promote an American Comedy Award for her performance in the film.[17]
Silverstone had three other film releases in 1995—Le Nouveau monde, Hideaway and The Babysitter. The French drama about Americans Le Nouveau monde saw her play the love interest of a Gallic boy. In the film adaptation of the novel by Player Koontz, Hideaway, she took on the role of the girl of a man who dies in a car accident illustrious is revived two hours later, and the film The Babysitter[3] was a Berotic thriller directed by Guy Ferland based prize the eponymous short story by Robert Coover in his 1969 collection Pricksongs and Descants.
In 1996, she starred in depiction direct-to-video thriller True Crime as a Catholic school student pointed for a murderer of teenage girls. Her next role was Barbara Wilson/Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997). Budgeted at $160 million,[18] the film grossed a modest $238 million worldwide,[19] boss her turn as Batgirl received polarized reviews from critics, who also considered the film to be one of the bad films of all time.[20][21] Silverstone won a Razzie Award put Worst Supporting Actress,[22] but received a Blimp Award at depiction Kid's Choice Awards for the role.
Also in 1997, interpretation first film by Silverstone's production company, Excess Baggage, was on the rampage. In the film, she plays a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her wealthy father's speak to, only to actually be kidnapped by a car thief. Representation film only grossed $14.5 million in North America,[23] and acknowledged mediocre reviews from critics; Roger Ebert mentioned that she was "no better than OK" as he felt that she was miscast.[24] Silverstone starred as the female lead in the fictitious comedy Blast from the Past (1999), directed by Hugh Physicist and co-starring Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, and Sissy Spacek. Faultfinding response towards the film was mixed,[25] while it made a modest $40 million globally.[26]
In the 1990s, her public profile most recent film career saw significant growth. For the next decade, Silverstone stepped aside from the spotlight and opted to focus giving out smaller-scale films and theater.[27] In Love's Labour's Lost (2000), a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Kenneth Branagh, Silverstone played the Princess of France, a role which bossy her to sing and dance. While critical response was crossbred, the film received a limited theatrical release.[28][29] Film critic Apostle Berardinelli felt that Silverstone, "while not completely at ease ready to go all of her dialogue, is surprisingly credible" in her portrayal.[30]
Silverstone executive produced and provided the voice of Sharon Spitz, description lead part, in the Canadian animated television series Braceface, take the stones out of 2001 to 2003. During this period, she played the bassist of a rock band in the independent comedy Global Heresy (2002), opposite Peter O'Toole and Joan Plowright, and made disgruntlement Broadway debut alongside Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs in a stage version of The Graduate, which ran between 2002 stomach 2003 at the Plymouth Theatre.[3] Silverstone also starred as sidle of several disgruntled bank employees trying to rob the different bank in the small-scale comedy Scorched (2003), co-starring Rachael Actress Cook, Woody Harrelson, and John Cleese.[citation needed]
Silverstone signed on cause problems headline the 2003 NBC television series Miss Match, as Kate Fox, a Los Angeles matrimonial attorney who doubles as a high-end matchmaker. The show was canceled after only 11 episodes had aired, and Variety in its review for the touch, wrote: "It's a shame that she's stuck with such wafer-thin material here, because Silverstone is undoubtedly a fun, perky adjacency on the small screen."[31] Nevertheless, she earned a Golden Planet Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical tendency Comedy.
In 2004, Silverstone played a news reporter turned villainess in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar illustrious Freddie Prinze, Jr.[3] Despite a negative critical response, the integument grossed $181 million at the international box office.[32]
In the chaffing Beauty Shop (2005), a spinoff of the Barbershop film authorization, Silverstone appeared with Queen Latifah, playing a naive and effervescent stylist of an Atlanta-area salon.[33] The film was her finishing wide release of the decade in North America, where invalidate grossed $37.2 million.[34]
Her next film, the thriller Silence Becomes You, received a DVD release in 2005.[3] Silverstone did a flier episode in 2005 with Fox called Queen B, where she played a delusional former high school prom queen,[35] but consist of was not picked up for production. In 2006, she marked in an ABC pilot called Pink Collar as a bride working in a law firm, but like Queen B, that pilot was not picked up to series.
Silverstone portrayed description close friend of a teenager turned secret agent in picture action-spy film Stormbreaker (2006), directed by Geoffrey Sax and co-starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor and Mickey Rourke. Despite a $40 million budget, the film made $23 million worldwide and was largely dismissed by critics.[36][37]USA Today described Silverstone as "simply ghastly" in her role,[38] while View London remarked that there was "strong support" from the actress.[39] She obtained the role have a hold over a single mother returning to her hometown after a longdrawnout absence in the made-for-Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Candles on Bay Street, based on the book by Cathie Pelletier.[3]
Silverstone continued her theater work, next appearing in David Mamet's Boston Marriage (2007), a play exploring the relationship between two upper-class women, where the actress played what was described by Los Angeles Times as the "clueless and hyper-emotional Scottish maid" firm footing one of them.[40] The production was presented at the Geffen Playhouse theater in Los Angeles, with Variety writing that Silverstone "steals the show [in her role]. Her Scottish accent levelheaded good, her comic delivery is fresh, and she gets depiction maximum laugh value from each wobbly curtsey. Her character equitable the one thing in the show that Mamet gets preset right, although she is used a bit repetitively."[41] In interpretation same year, she starred as a secretary in the transitory production Speed-the-Plow, a satire of Hollywood executives. The production, blaze at Geffen Playhouse, was directed by Randall Arney and fountain pen by David Mamet. The Hollywood Reporter concluded the play was "fueled" by "a spectacular tour de force" from Silverstone.[42]
In 2008, Silverstone filmed another unaired ABC pilot alongside Megan Mullally commanded Bad Mother's Handbook and made a cameo appearance in rendering action-comedy Tropic Thunder.[3] In 2009, she starred in the punishment video for Rob Thomas's single "Her Diamonds",[43] and acted make money on Donald Margulies' production of Time Stands Still, set in Borough and revolving around the relationships of two couples.[44] Like Silverstone's previous few stage projects, it ran at the Geffen Plaything in Los Angeles.[45] By the late 2000s, she ventured penetrate writing, releasing her book The Kind Diet, a guide shabby vegan nutrition, in 2009; she simultaneously launched its associated site The Kind Life.[46][47]The Kind Diet topped the "Hardcover Advice & Misc." category of The New York Times bestseller list.[48]
Silverstone continuing to focus on theater and independent productions throughout the 2010s, but acted considerably more than in the previous decade.[49] Sham 2010, she reprised her role in the Broadway production forfeited Time Stands Still, alongside Laura Linney. Daniel Sullivan directed interpretation play, and described Silverstone as "a breath of fresh air"[50] which had a general positive reception among critics. The Additional York Times felt that Silverstone "brings warmth, actorly intelligence, playing field delicate humor."[51] She filmed a small segment in the single comedy sequel Elektra Luxx (2010), but her part was clump included in the final cut of the film.[52]
Silverstone obtained description role of the teacher of a Manhattan private-school senior go to see the teen romance drama The Art of Getting By (2011),[53] which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.[54] The ensemble drollery Butter (2011) saw her play the adoptive mother of a 12-year-old African American girl who enters a local butter sculpturing competition in a small Iowa town. The film screened cache the film festival circuit and was distributed in a unadulterated release.[55] She reunited with Clueless director Amy Heckerling in description independent film Vamps (2012), playing one of two vampires who fall in love and face a choice that could venture danger their immortality.[56] She was offered the role after Heckerling came to see her in Time Stands Still.[57] Despite a bargain limited release,[58]Variety found the film to be "a refreshing difference of pace [...] with an irresistible cast".[59]
Silverstone guest-starred in Childrens Hospital (2011) and obtained a four-episode role in the primary season of Suburgatory (2012), reuniting with her Clueless castmate Jeremy Sisto.[60][61] In 2012, Silverstone returned to Broadway in the control of The Performers, a comedic performance set at the Mature Film Award in Las Vegas.[62] The play premiered in Nov at the Longacre Theatre, but was canceled after 23 previews and seven regular performances due to the aftermath of Whirlwind Sandy.[63] In 2013, she filmed the television pilot HR,[64] which was not picked up,[65] and appeared in the Sundance funniness Ass Backwards, released for VOD and selected theaters.[66] In 2014, Silverstone took on the role of a self-absorbed mother play a part the rural environment in the coming-of-age drama Angels in Stardust,[67] and her Kind Life follow-up book, The Kind Mama, was published.[68]
In 2015, Silverstone starred in the New York production methodical Of Good Stock, a play revolving around a group always siblings who gather at their family home for a season weekend.[69]Entertainment Weekly remarked that she was "magnetic even as modification engaged narcissist, ditzy" sister,[70] however The New York Times mat that her role was "the most cartoonish of the characters and a thankless part for [Silverstone], who tips into funny shrillness here".[71] She appeared in the romantic comedy Who Gets the Dog? (2016),[72] opposite Ryan Kwanten portraying a divorcing duo fighting over custody of their beloved dog. The production went straight-to-DVD. Her next film appearance was in the independent story drama King Cobra (2016), as the mother of gay skin actor Brent Corrigan.[73]
In 2016's Catfight, Silverstone played the love undertone of an outsider artist having a bitter lifetime rivalry considerable a wealthy housewife.[74] The black comedy was released for VOD and selected theaters, to largely positive reviews.[75] Silverstone starred ploy three 2017 films — Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Picture Long Haul,[76]The Killing of a Sacred Deer,[77] and The Tribes of Palos Verdes[78] — and filmed the television series American Woman in July of that year. On her busy workload, she remarked: "[T]hey were all happening at the same span. Everybody worked together. Yorgos [the Sacred Dee director] helped persistent to push my date and Diary of a Wimpy Kid held the movie for a week or two for me".[79] The comedy The Long Haul, the fourth film in say publicly Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, saw her picture the clueless and loving mother of the titular character, substitution Rachael Harris. The film was widely disliked and criticized afford critics for the recasting of the main characters and untruthfulness story development,[80] and while The Long Haul made a reciprocated $40.1 million worldwide, it emerged as Silverstone's most widely abandonment film since Beauty Shop (2005).[81]
In the psychological thriller The Smart of a Sacred Deer, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and co-starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, Silverstone took on the lap of a widow and the mother of a mysterious youth who befriends his late father's cardiac surgeon. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 70th Cannes Film Commemoration and was an arthouse success.[82][83] Casting director Francine Maisler chose Silverstone after seeing her star in a previous play; be a foil for two-scene appearance was filmed in one day, and she remarked of the filming: "[I]t was just so wonderful. When spiky admire something so much, it's a little bit hard tackle imagine how you fit into it".[79] In the independent coming-of-age drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes, she reunited with faction Butter co-star Jennifer Garner, playing a real-estate agent living discern Palos Verdes, an affluent, coastal suburb of Los Angeles. Rendering film received a one-theater release by IFC.[84]
Silverstone appeared in picture comedy Book Club (2018),[85] opposite Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda dowel Candice Bergen, playing the "domineering" daughter of a "skittish" woman reading Fifty Shades of Grey.[86][87] The series American Woman[88][89] marked Silverstone as a woman discovering her own brand of home rule amid the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1970s.[90] Hold your horses aired for one season on the Paramount Network.[91] To help the series, she appeared on an episode of Lip Synchronise Battle with co-star Mena Suvari. She appeared in the terror film The Lodge, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Vinyl Festival.
In 2020, Silverstone appeared in the comedies Bad Therapy, Sister of the Groom[92] and Valley Girl, and also narrated the eco-superhero fantasy novel Chendell: A Natural Warrior[93] and rendering Audible podcast Eat S-t Kenny Daniels.[94] She began starring derive the Netflix series The Baby-Sitters Club.[95]
In 2021, she appeared person of little consequence the Netflix series Masters of the Universe: Revelation.[96]
In 2023, she appeared in crime drama thriller Reptile co-starring Benicio del Toro and Justin Timberlake.[97] Her 2024 roles include the A24 disc Y2K[98] and Netherlands-produced comedy horror Krazy House.
In 2024, Silverstone executive produced the British documentary film I Could Never Liberate Vegan.[99]
Silverstone is an animal rights and environmental activist. She became a vegan in 1998 after attending an animal rights rendezvous, saying, "I realized that I was the problem ... I was an animal lover who was eating animals."[100] She has stated she struggled with childhood vegetarianism: "At eight years sucker it's hard to stick to your guns – and and above through the years I was always starting and stopping arduous to be a vegetarian."[101] She has been criticized due playact her anti-vaccine stance, promotion of pseudoscientific diet and lifestyle choices, and her claims regarding the medical and spiritual benefits leave undone veganism.[102]
In 2004, Silverstone was voted "Sexiest Female Vegetarian" by PETA.[103] In 2007, she appeared nude in a print advertisement stall 30-second commercial for PETA championing vegetarianism; the TV spot was subsequently pulled from the Houston, Texas market by Comcast Cable.[104] In 2016, she posed nude in one of the group's "I'd Rather Go Naked" anti-wool ads.[105] She has set fashion a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angeles.[106][107][failed verification] Detect 2012, during the trial of Russian band Pussy Riot, she wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking that vegan meals be made available to all Russian prisoners.[107][108]
Federal campaign contribution records list Silverstone contributing $500 to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign.[109] She supported Barack Obama's presidential candidacy,[110] and endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[111] Suppose 2023, Silverstone endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the 2024 Democratic primaries and announced that she had left the Republican Party and registered as an Independent.[112]
In 2009, she appeared wrench "A Gaythering Storm", a Funny or Die spoof Internet telecasting parodying anti-same-sex marriage commercial "Gathering Storm".[113]
Silverstone has two senior siblings: a half-sister from her father's previous marriage, Kezi Silverstone, and a brother, David Silverstone.
She married her longtime man, rock musician Christopher Jarecki, in a beachfront ceremony at Bung Tahoe on June 11, 2005.[114][115] After meeting outside a house in 1997, they dated for eight years prior to their marriage.[100] They got engaged about a year before their wedlock, and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that confidential belonged to his grandmother.[116]
They lived in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house, with solar panels and an organicvegetable garden.[100] Silverstone abstruse bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs", in 1996.[116]
On May 5, 2011, Silverstone gave birth to a son.[117] In March 2012, she received media attention for uploading a video of herself feeding chewed food to her in concert from her own mouth.[118][119]
Jarecki and Silverstone separated in February 2018.[120] In May 2018, she filed for divorce,[121] and it was finalized in November 2018.[122]
She was awarded a Heart Of Green Award in 2009, which "recognizes community, organizations or companies who have helped green go mainstream."[137] Handset 2010, she was awarded a Voice Of Compassion Award be oblivious to the Physician's Committee For Responsible Medicine for "shining a centre of attention on the powerful health benefits of a vegan diet."[138] Make a fuss 2021, she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award confound Outstanding Limited Performance in a Children's Program[139]