• Name: Elisabeth Shue
  
• Birth Name: Elisabeth J. Shue
  
• Height: 5' 2"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: October 6, 1963
  
• Birth Place: Wilmington, Delaware
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Wellesely College
  
•   : Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (majored in Political Science)
  
• Husband/Wife: Davis Guggenheim (director; married in 1994; separated in 1996; reconciled)
  
• Father: a real-estate developer and former attorney
  
• Mother: a bank executive
  
• Brother: Will (older), Andrew Shue (Actor, younger)
  
• Son: Miles William (born in 1997)
  
• Daughter: Stella (born on March 19, 2001)
  
• Claim to fame: as Sera in Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  

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• "I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me." - Movieline. August 2000.
• "After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect." - Movieline. August 2000.
• "I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play."
• "I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength."
• "Sadness, joy, wonder -- all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive."

• National Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Actress, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1996)
• Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1996)
• Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actor, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1996)
• Independent Spirit Awards: Best Female Lead, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1996)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Actress, LEAVING LAS VEGAS (1995)
• Paris Film Festival: Best Actress, ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1988)
• Young Artist Awards: Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama, THE KARATE KID (1985)

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