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Welcome to The Alicia
Silverstone Picture Pages!
Alicia Silverstone was
born on October 4, 1976, in San Francisco, California as
the youngest of three children to parents 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, Monty, took
some photos of his young daughter. The photos allowed
her to get some modeling gigs which then led to
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 for teenagers in
which she portrayed a disturbed young lady obsessed with
an older man. The nasty little role didn't impress the
critical establishment but it wowed its target audience
of 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 Crush, 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 Crush 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 number one video of all
time on MTV. Silverstone was definitely a hit with the
MTV crowd, but larger commercial success had still
eluded her. That all changed when she landed the role of
Cher in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995). The
Cher character was the antithesis of her role in The
Crush. This time around Silverstone was a naive yet
endearing girl from Beverly Hills in search of love in
the nineties. The film was a huge sleeper hit at the box
office and wowed both audiences and critics alike. It
also 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) which received very
muted reviews.
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