Alicia Silverstone

Actor

Born: 4 October 1976
Birthplace: San Francisco, California
Best known as: The star of the movie Clueless
The film Clueless made Alicia Silverstone one of Hollywood's hottest actresses for a brief moment in 1995. Silverstone had already made a small splash in 1993, frolicking with Liv Tyler as a sexy teen truant in the music video for the Aerosmith song "Crazy." Two years later she played Cher, the frothy social butterfly in Clueless, a romantic comedy loosely based on Jane Austen's book Emma. Clueless was a smash and Silverstone quickly signed a multi-million dollar studio deal and set up her own production company, but she never quite found another role that suited her so well. She appeared as Batgirl in Batman and Robin (1997, with George Clooney as Batman), as another sexy truant in Excess Baggage (1997, with Benicio Del Toro) and as the love interest in the comedy Blast From the Past (1999, with Christopher Walken), then had lesser roles in films like Beauty Shop (2005, with Queen Latifah) and Stormbreaker (2006). On television she starred as a lovelorn matchmaker in the 2003 series Miss Match.
Extra credit: Silverstone dropped out of Hollywood High, but later got her GED... The role of Batgirl was played by Yvonne Craig in the 1960's Batman TV series... A TV series based on Clueless ran from 1996-99, with actress Rachel Blanchard in the role of Cher.

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