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Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress. She has starred in films such as The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Piranha 3D (2010), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Death Wish (2018), and Greyhound (2020). For her performance in Leaving Las Vegas, she was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress.
On television, Shue played Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama thriller CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012–2015), Ali Mills in the Netflix martial arts comedy drama Cobra Kai (2018-2025), and Madelyn Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video satirical superhero series The Boys (2019–2020). She reprises her role in the animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022) and the spin-off series Gen V (2023). She also leads the Netflix dramedy series On the Verge (2021).
Shue was born on October 6, 1963, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Anne Brewster (née Wells), and James William Shue, a one-time congressional candidate, lawyer, and real-estate developer, who was president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation. Her mother was a vice president in the private banking division of the Chemical Bank.
Shue grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. Her parents divorced when she was nine. Shue's mother is a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster, while her father's family emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 19th century. Shue was raised with her three brothers (William, Andrew, and John) and was very close to them. Her younger brother Andrew is also an actor, best known for his role as Billy Campbell in the Fox series Melrose Place. Shue graduated from Columbia High School in 1981 in Maplewood, New Jersey, where Andrew and she were inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1994. Shue has two half-siblings from her father's remarriage, Jenna and Harvey Shue.
After graduating from high school, Shue attended Wellesley College. She then transferred to Harvard University in 1985, from which she withdrew in her senior year to pursue her acting career, a few credits shy of earning her degree. Over a decade later, in 2000, Shue returned to Harvard and completed her bachelor of arts in government.
During her studies at Columbia High School and after her parents' divorce, Shue began acting in television commercials, becoming a common sight in advertisements for Burger King, also featuring future stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lea Thompson (with whom Elisabeth would later co-star in both television and film), DeBeers diamonds, Chewels bubble gum, and Best Foods/Hellmann's mayonnaise. She had small parts, credited as Lisa Shue, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983), which provided an early starring role for Sarah Jessica Parker.
Shue made her feature-film debut in 1984, when she co-starred opposite Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid as Ali Mills, a high-school cheerleader and the love interest of Macchio's main character. Shue was a series regular as the teenaged daughter of a military family in the short-lived television series Call to Glory between 1984 and 1985, which she followed in 1986 starring alongside Terence Stamp in the British horror film Link. In 1987, Shue appeared in the television movie Double Switch (part of the Disney Sunday Movie series), co-starring with George Newbern, who went on to support her in her first star vehicle, the hugely popular Adventures in Babysitting, in the same year.
In 1988, Shue starred in Cocktail as the love interest of Tom Cruise's lead character. The following year, she starred in the short film "Body Wars", which was used at Epcot in an ATLAS Simulator attraction in the Wonders of Life Pavilion until 2007. Other roles followed, including appearing as Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), where Shue replaced Claudia Wells, who declined to reprise the role from Back to the Future due to her mother's illness. Around this time, her older brother, William, died in an accident on a family holiday. Although her career was on the rise with her playing lead roles, Shue elected to take on the smaller supporting role of Jennifer in these sequels to allow her to deal with her family loss. The sequels were filmed back to back, and Shue featured prominently in Part II, appearing in bookend pieces in the third part of the trilogy.
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Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress. She has starred in films such as The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Piranha 3D (2010), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Death Wish (2018), and Greyhound (2020). For her performance in Leaving Las Vegas, she was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress.
On television, Shue played Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama thriller CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012–2015), Ali Mills in the Netflix martial arts comedy drama Cobra Kai (2018-2025), and Madelyn Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video satirical superhero series The Boys (2019–2020). She reprises her role in the animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022) and the spin-off series Gen V (2023). She also leads the Netflix dramedy series On the Verge (2021).
Shue was born on October 6, 1963, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Anne Brewster (née Wells), and James William Shue, a one-time congressional candidate, lawyer, and real-estate developer, who was president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation. Her mother was a vice president in the private banking division of the Chemical Bank.
Shue grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. Her parents divorced when she was nine. Shue's mother is a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster, while her father's family emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 19th century. Shue was raised with her three brothers (William, Andrew, and John) and was very close to them. Her younger brother Andrew is also an actor, best known for his role as Billy Campbell in the Fox series Melrose Place. Shue graduated from Columbia High School in 1981 in Maplewood, New Jersey, where Andrew and she were inducted into the school's hall of fame in 1994. Shue has two half-siblings from her father's remarriage, Jenna and Harvey Shue.
After graduating from high school, Shue attended Wellesley College. She then transferred to Harvard University in 1985, from which she withdrew in her senior year to pursue her acting career, a few credits shy of earning her degree. Over a decade later, in 2000, Shue returned to Harvard and completed her bachelor of arts in government.
During her studies at Columbia High School and after her parents' divorce, Shue began acting in television commercials, becoming a common sight in advertisements for Burger King, also featuring future stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lea Thompson (with whom Elisabeth would later co-star in both television and film), DeBeers diamonds, Chewels bubble gum, and Best Foods/Hellmann's mayonnaise. She had small parts, credited as Lisa Shue, in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) and Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983), which provided an early starring role for Sarah Jessica Parker.
Shue made her feature-film debut in 1984, when she co-starred opposite Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid as Ali Mills, a high-school cheerleader and the love interest of Macchio's main character. Shue was a series regular as the teenaged daughter of a military family in the short-lived television series Call to Glory between 1984 and 1985, which she followed in 1986 starring alongside Terence Stamp in the British horror film Link. In 1987, Shue appeared in the television movie Double Switch (part of the Disney Sunday Movie series), co-starring with George Newbern, who went on to support her in her first star vehicle, the hugely popular Adventures in Babysitting, in the same year.
In 1988, Shue starred in Cocktail as the love interest of Tom Cruise's lead character. The following year, she starred in the short film "Body Wars", which was used at Epcot in an ATLAS Simulator attraction in the Wonders of Life Pavilion until 2007. Other roles followed, including appearing as Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990), where Shue replaced Claudia Wells, who declined to reprise the role from Back to the Future due to her mother's illness. Around this time, her older brother, William, died in an accident on a family holiday. Although her career was on the rise with her playing lead roles, Shue elected to take on the smaller supporting role of Jennifer in these sequels to allow her to deal with her family loss. The sequels were filmed back to back, and Shue featured prominently in Part II, appearing in bookend pieces in the third part of the trilogy.
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