Alicia Silverstone Biography

• Birth Name

  Alicia Silverstone

• Birth Date

  10/04/1976

• Birthplace

  San Francisco, California

• Family

  Husband: Chris Jarecki
  married June 11, 2005 in Lake Tahoe; dated eight years prior to being married

  Father: Monty Silverstone
  British-born; Jewish; acted in a San Mateo County community-theater production "The Real Inspector Hound" (c.1996); reportedly appeared in an installment of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" (c. 1997)

  Half-Brother: David Silverstone
  born November 1971; from father Monty's previous marriage

  Half-Sister: Kezi Silverstone
  from father Monty's previous marriage

  Mother: Didi Silverstone
  Scottish-born; converted to husband's Jewish faith; born c. 1942

  Sibling:
  has two

• Notes

  "Alicia makes this idea make sense to me,'' Star tells Variety. "You believe her as someone who believes in other people's happiness. She has a very empathetic quality and innate sweetness and loveability to her. There's this grown-up, adult persona that I don't think people are quite as familiar with."---Darren Star talking about her role in "Miss Match" to EWonline, September 2003.
  "For close to two years I've been vegan, and it's turned my whole life around. I can sleep better, I have more energy, my skin is really clear, and my body's in the shape it needs to be in. And being vegan, I love food more, because animal products numb your taste buds. It's not a joke that a lot of people are lactose intolerant. They open them up and there are blocks of cheese inside them that they can't digest. I mean, have you seen how they make milk? Ugh!"---Silverstone to Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 2000.
  "I mean, a lot of times I won

  der, What drugs are these people taking that allow them to stay alive? My perception of [Hollywood] is that it is very cold and very dry and very dark. But the people, they always have a smile on their face, though I always wonder, How deep in that smile is the knife? I just don't understand how jobs could ru

  le people's lives. I don't really understand how you could think, I'm going to backstab, cheat, harm, just to get ahead in a business. I mean, I guess in caveman world it happened, but it happened to survive!"---Alicia Silverstone in VANITY FAIR, September 1996.
  "My lifestyle really allows me to feel healthy as I'm being pulled left and right and up and down and my brain's falling out. I feel like as long as you can get to yoga, eat really goo

  d, feel healthy and have love in your life, it's all good."---Silverstone quoted in Moveline's Hollywood Life, May 2004.
  In response to the people in Hollywood who take exception to Silverstone's closeness to her agent-turned-manager Carolyn Kessler: "My relationship with Carolyn is a marriage. I'm going to have her as a friend forever. Carolyn supported me being who I am. She'd rather I be happy than successful as an actress. Th

  

  at's been really helpful. I don't trust anybody here [in Hollywood]. People are greedy and insensitive and eager to be successful in a really nasty way, almost where everybody's a mini-Hitler."---Silverstone quoted in PREMIERE, August 1997.
  On her role of Batgirl in the ill-fated "Batman & Robin" (1997), Silverstone told the Web site Mr. Showbiz (mrshowbiz.go.com): "I knew the day I started shooting it wasn't going to be a good movie. I d

  on't regret it; it's just a silly, huge movie. This movie was a huge machine; it was bigger than any actor in it. But you can't have a film without a story, and that was my problem with it. I thought I'd be really cool, like Catwomanish, not the same character, but important and interesting and complex, and have idiosyncrasies. [Instead] I was like this big fashion show-type machine. It worked out really well though; George Clooney was really nice and that was cool."
  She is a passionate animal rights activist, affiliated with PETA in New York and Last Chance for Animals in California.
  Silverstone has participated in The Forum, a so-called "self-improvement" organization akin to est.
  

• Milestones

  (2002) Appeared in crime comedy "Scorched" with Woody Harrelson; screened at Cannes
  (2005) Appeared in the comedy "Beauty Shop" opposite Queen Latifah
  (1993-1994) Appeared in three videos of the rock band Aerosmith ("Cryin'", "Amazing" and

  

  "Crazy")
  (1995) Attended Shakespeare & Company, a month-long classics "boot camp" at Edith Wharton's home, the Mount, in the Massachusetts' Berkshires
  (1990) Attended her first acting workshop at 13 (date approximate)
  (1989) Bat mitzvahed at age 13 (date approximate)
  (1984) Began modeling at the age of 8 (date approximate)
  (2006) Cast in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" based on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series
  (1999) Co-starred opposite Brendan Fraser in "Blast From the Past"
  (2001) Executive produced and voiced the character of Sharon Spitz in the Fox Family Channel animated series "Braceface"
  (1993) Feature acting debut, "The Crush"
  (1997) First offering from French Kiss Productions, "Excess Baggage", fizzled at box office
  Her father found her a print agent
  (1993) Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15 (date approximate)
  (2002) Made Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the stage adaptation of "The Graduate"
  (1997) Played Batgirl in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin"
  Played a suicidal lesbian coke addict in L.A. stage production of "Carol's Eve'"
  Raised in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb of San Francisco; spent summers in England
  (1980) Saw her first plays in London at age three with her father and older brother (date approximate)
  (1995) Signed a deal worth between $7 and 10 million to produce and star in two movies for Columbia Pictures; also snared a three-year non-exclusive "first-look" pact with the studio for her production company, First Kiss Productions
  (1995) Starred as Cher in "Clueless", Amy Heckerling's updated version of Jane Austin's "Emma"
  (2003) Starred in the Darren Star series "Miss Match"; received a golden globe nomination for best actress in a musical or comedy (2003)
  (1995) Started her production company, First Kiss Productions
  Studied ballet as a child
  (1992) TV acting debut, guest shot on ABC's "The Wonder Years"
  TV commercial debut, an ad for Domino's Pizza
  (1993) TV-movie debut, "Judith Krantz's Torch Song" (ABC)
  (2000) Undertook first Shakespearean screen role, the Princess of France, in "Love's Labour's Lost", Kenneth Branagh's musical reworking of the Bard's comedy
  Won fourth-place prize at a county fair for performing a routine to the theme song from "Flashdance"