a Silverstone:Alicia Silverstone was born on October
4, 1976, in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children to Monty
Silverstone, a real-estate investor, and Didi Silverstone, a former flight
attendant. Alicia's career began at the tender age of six when her dad took some
photos of his young daughter, which eventually led to her getting several
television commercials. After a guest spot on "The Wonder Years" (1988) as a
literal "dream girl" she moved on to movies. She landed a role in The Crush
(1993), a sort of Fatal Attraction (1987) for teenagers in which she portrayed a
disturbed young girl obsessed with an older man. The nasty little role didn't
impress the critical establishment but it wowed its target audience: teenagers.
In fact, the role won her the 1994 MTV Movie Award for "Best Villain" and
"Breakthrough Performance". It is interesting to note that during the filming of
the movie, Alicia became an emancipated minor in order to get around child labor
laws which would have interfered with her working hours. She was a dedicated
actress from early on. The film also caught the attention of Aerosmith, who
hired her to appear in a string of their music videos. The first of them, "Cryin'",
was voted the #1 video of all time on MTV. Silverstone was definitely a hit with
the MTV crowd, but larger commercial success still eluded her. That all changed
when she landed the role of "Cher" in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995). Cher was
the antithesis of Alicia's role in "The Crush; this time around she was a rich,
naive yet endearing girl from Beverly Hills in search of love in the 1990s. The
film was a huge box-office hit and wowed both audiences and critics alike and
demonstrated Alicia's strength and bankability. She was hailed as the woman of
the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation. She
signed a deal with Columbia Tristar worth $10 million and got the coveted
role of Batgirl in the Batman franchise. Also, as
part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production
company, First Kiss Productions. The first film released by First Kiss was
Excess Baggage (1997).
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