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Elisabeth Shue born October 6, 1963 is an American actress. She has starred in the films 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 an Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress
On television, Shue played Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensic crime drama thriller CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012–2015) and Madeline Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video satirical superhero series The Boys (2019–2020), a role she reprised in the animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022) and the spin-off series Jane V (2023). She also leads the Netflix drama series On the Verge (2021).
Shu was born on October 6, 1963, in Wilmington, Delaware, the daughter of Anne Brewster (née Wells) and James William Shu 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 Chemical Bank Corporation.
Shu was raised in South Orange, New Jersey. Her parents divorced when she was nine.Shu's mother is a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster while her father's family immigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany in the early 19th century Shu 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 playing Billy Campbell on the Fox series Melrose Place. Shue graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey in 1981, where she and Andrew 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 moved to Harvard University in 1985, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career (she had been inspired by a friend to work in television commercials to pay for college) one semester before earning her degree. More than a decade later, in 2000, Shue returned to Harvard and completed a BA in Government.
Personal life
Shu married film director Davis Guggenheim in 1994. Shue and Guggenheim have three children. Shue gave birth to their first child, a son named Miles, on November 11, 1997. Their first daughter, Stella, was born on March 19, 2001. Their second daughter, third and final child, Agnes Charles, was born on July 2, 2006. L In 2004, Shue and Guggenheim sold their Sunset Strip house for $1.3 million.
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