February 1999
Yahoo!'s Web Celeb Alicia Silverstone
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Beautiful and talented Alicia Silverstone (pronounced A-lee-see-ah) may have
been
"Clueless" in her most popular movie, but this young actress has taken
brilliant career strides that have been truly "Amazing."
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She was born on October 4,1976, in San Francisco, California to parents
of English decent. Her mom, Didi was a former airline stewardess and her dad
Monty, a real estate Investor. Alicia attended San Mateo High School in San
Mateo, California, where the movie "Dangerous Minds" was filmed.
At the age of 6, Alicia received a series of modeling jobs. Soon
thereafter, she appeared in a Domino's Pizza television commercial and
then, who could forget her guest appearance as Kevin's (Fred Savage) dream
girl on "The Wonder Years"?
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Alicia landed her first movie, "The Crush," at the age of 15. She starred
as the man-hungry Adrian Forrester opposite Cary Elwes, and won "Best
Villain"
and "Breakthrough Performance" at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards. During the
filming,
she found an injured dog on the side of the road. Since then, animal-lover
Alicia contributes
a portion of her movie earnings to an animal foundation.
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After "The Crush," Alicia starred in three Aerosmith music videos entitled
"Cryin," "Crazy," and "Amazing." "Cryin," the first of the three music
videos,
was honored as MTV’s Best Video of All Time. After a few made-for-TV movies,
Alicia could be seen in "The Babysitter", "Hideaway", "True Crime", and
"The
Nouveau Monde". That same year, Alicia starred in the movie "Clueless" and
pulled
heart strings of adolescent males everywhere. She then went on to co-star as
Batgirl in the
fourth "Batman and Robin" -opposite names like George Clooney, Uma Thurman,
Chris O’Donnell, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Alicia’s recent movies include the romantic comedy "Excess Baggage", which
was her first
release as a producer, and "The Breakers". As for now, she can be seen
starring with Brendan
Fraser in the upcoming New Line Cinema film "Blast From the Past."
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Jewel,
Chris Rock,
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Tracey Ullman,
Fiona Apple,
Gwyneth Paltrow,
Kate Winslet,
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Blues Review.
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