Berkley may refer to:

Places[link]

United Kingdom

• Berkley, Somerset

United States

• Berkley, Colorado
• Berkley, Iowa
• Berkley, Maryland
• Berkley, Massachusetts
• Berkley, Michigan
• Berkley, Virginia, formerly a town, and now a neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia
• Berkley (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood also known as Foxhall Crescent

Other uses[link]

• Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) (also known as Berkley Publishing Co.)
• Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University
• Berkley (fishing), a fishing tackle company

People with the name[link]

• Austin Berkley (born 1973), former English professional footballer
• Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), American TV and movie actress
• George Berkley (engineer) (died 1893), British civil engineer
• Richard L. Berkley (born 1931), Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri (1979 - 1991)
• Seth Berkley (born 1956), American epidemiologist
• Shelley Berkley (born 1951), U.S. Congresswoman
• Theresa Berkley (died 1836), 19th century London dominatrix

See also[link]

• Berkley Bridge (disambiguation)
• Berkeley (disambiguation)
• Berklee College of Music in Boston

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Skeet Reese is a professional sport fisherman of the B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsmans Society). He was born in Auburn, California on June 30, 1969. He has a wife, Kim, and a two daughters, Leamarie and Courtney.

On September 15, 2007, Skeet became the 2007 B.A.S.S. Toyota Tundra Angler of the Year.

Skeet won the 2009 Bassmaster Classic in Shreveport, LA, on February 22, 2009 with a total weight of 54 pounds 13 ounces.

Stats[link]

• Years pro: 14
• Top 10 finishes: 59
• First place finishes: 6
• Second place finishes: 10
• Career earnings: $2,545,553.64
• Current World rank: 14
• Current Bassmaster standing: 2 (295 points)
• Total Weight: 5,846lbs 10oz
• 2007 B.A.S.S. Toyota Tundra Angler of the year
• Best finish in 2006: 2 - Potomac River, 8/10/2006
• Best finish in 2007: 2 - Lay Lake, 2/23/2007
• Best finish in 2008: 9 - Clarks Hill, 5/1/2008
• Best finish in 2009: 1 - Red River, 2/22/2009
• Best finish in 2010: 1 - Smith Mountain Lake, 4/19/2010
• Bassmaster Classics: 11 (fished)
• Bassmaster Classic Titles: 1

Angler Information[link]

• Home Lake: Clear Lake (CA)
• Favorite Lake: Clear Lake (CA) - "It's a phenomenal fishery, but Lake Champlain comes pretty close."
• Least Favorite Lake: Lake Toho (FL) - "I just can't figure the fish out

there."

• Favorite Technique: Flipping and pitching
• Primary Fishing Strength: Mental toughness
• Secondary Fishing Strength: Flipping and pitching
• Biggest Weakness: Cranking deep structure
• Boat: Stratos
• Motor: Mercury
• Team: Lucky Craft
• Fishing Sponsors: Lowrance, MotorGuide, Lucky Craft, Berkley Trilene, Abu Garcia, Fish Hedz, Wiley X

External links[link]

• Extensive stats
• Skeet Reese Official Website
• [1]

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Gina Gershon
Gershon in June 2011
Born	Gina L. Gershon (1962-06-10) June 10, 1962 (age 50) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, author
Years active	1985–present
Website
http://www.ginagershon.com/

Gina L. Gershon (born June 10, 1962) is an American film, television and stage actress, singer and author, known for her roles in the films Cocktail (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), Category 7: The End of the World (2005), P.S. I Love You (2007) and Five Minarets in New York (2010). She is currently a supporting cast member of the HBO series How To Make It In America.

Early life[link]

Gershon was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Mickey, an interior decorator, and Stan Gershon, who worked in the import/export business and sales.^[1] Gershon is Jewish,^[2] and has a brother, Dan, and a sister, Tracy. She attended Beverly Hills High School with Lenny Kravitz.^[3] After high school, Gershon moved to Boston, where she attended Emerson College.

Career[link]

Gershon attended New York University, where she studied drama and child psychology. She also attended the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School in New York, working with David Mamet and Harold Guskin. She is one of the founding members of the New York-based theater group Naked Angels.^[4]

She has appeared on Broadway three times, as Sally Bowles in the revival of Cabaret, in the revival of the sex farce Boeing-Boeing, and is currently playing Rosie Alvarez in the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie at the Roundabout Theatre Company.^[5]

Her first acting venues were stage appearances in Camille and The Substance of Fire. She had a cameo role in The Cars 1984 video Hello Again alongside Andy Warhol. Her break came with a bit part in 1986's Pretty in Pink which led to more substantial roles in Sweet Revenge with Nancy Allen and Cocktail, with Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue. Gershon also worked in TV, with a recurring role on Melrose Place playing a Heidi Fleiss-esque Hollywood madame. She won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Nancy Sinatra in the made-for-TV biopic Sinatra. In 1996, she played Corky, an ex-con who gets mixed up in an affair with Violet (played by Jennifer Tilly), in the mobster flick Bound. The following year, she costarred with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in Face/Off.^[4]

Gershon is regarded as a gay icon^[6] because of her roles in movies such as Bound (in which she played a butch lesbian), Prey for Rock & Roll, and Showgirls (in which she played a bisexual, and which is regarded as a camp classic). She was ranked #23 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2004.^[7]

Gershon played Jew's harp on "I Can't Decide", a song on the Scissor Sisters 2006 release Ta-Dah. She also played Jew's harp on the song "I Do It For Your Love", Paul Simon's collaboration with Herbie Hancock on his album Possibilities, and on "Maria" from her album In Search Of Cleo. On television, she has recurring roles on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (as a Hasidic dry cleaner), Rescue Me, and the U.S. dramedy series Ugly Betty (as Italian cosmetics mogul Fabia, the rival of Wilhelmina Slater). She also has served as the voiceover for Major League Baseball's "I Live For This" promotional campaign.

Gershon also appears in Lenny Kravitz's music video entitled "Again". She and her brother Dan are the authors of the children's book Camp Creepy Time. On September 10, 2008, Gershon appeared in a video on funnyordie.com, parodying former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, titled "Gina Gershon Strips Down Sarah Palin"^[8] which she followed with "Gina Gershon Does Sarah Palin 2".^[9]

In 2011 she appeared as a recurring character in the HBO series How to Make It in America.

Personal life[link]

A 2008 Vanity Fair article linked her romantically with former President Bill Clinton.^[10] Speaking on the U.S. television show Live with Regis and Kelly on June 9, she said, "It is such a crazy, outrageous lie… I met him three times at events. [These rumors] disturbed me on so many levels."

Filmography[link]

Films[link]

Gershon in May 2010

• Pretty in Pink (1986) – gym student/friend at prom
• Sweet Revenge (1987) – K.C.
• Red Heat (1988) – Cat Manzetti
• Cocktail (1988) – Coral
• Voodoo Dawn (1990) – Tina
• Out for Justice (1991) – Patti Madano
• The Player (1992) – Whitney Gersh
• Ann Rule's Eveything She Ever Wanted (1993) – Pat Allanson
• Flinch (1994) – Daphne James
• Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995) – Margo Preston
• Showgirls (1995) – Cristal Connors
• Bound (1996) – Corky
• Touch (1997) – Debra Lusanne
• Face/Off (1997) – Sasha Hassler
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) – Carol Lakewood Wharton
• Palmetto (1998) – Nina
• Prague Duet (1998) – Dr. Lauren Graham
• One Tough Cop (1998) – Joey O'Hara
• Black & White (1998) – Nora "Hugs" Hugosian
• Lulu on the Bridge (1998) – Hannah
• Guinevere (1999) – Billie
• The Insider (1999) – Helen Caperelli
• Slackers (2002)-Uncredited
• Driven (2001) – Cathy Heguy
• Picture Claire (2001) – Lily Warden
• Borderline (2002) – Lila Coletti
• Demonlover (2002) – Elaine Si Gibril
• Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) – Jacki
• Three Way (2004) – Florence
• Out of Season (2004) – Eileen Phillips
• Category 7: The End of the World (2005) – Judith Carr
• Dreamland (2006) – Mary
• One Last Thing... (2006) – Arlene
• Kettle of Fish (2006) – Ginger
• What Love Is (2006) – Rachel
• Delirious (2007) – Dana
• P.S. I Love You (2007) – Sharon
• Beer for My Horses (2008) – Cammie
• Just Business (2008) – Marty
• Love Ranch (2009) – Irene
• Five Minarets in New York (Turkish: New York’ta Beş Minare) (2010) – Maria
• Killer Joe (2011) – Sharla

Television[link]

• The New Twilight Zone (1987) – Laura/Prince (Season 2, Episode 18 "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
• The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989) – Randy
• Monsters (1989)-Ann(Season 2, Episode 7 "jar")
• Sinatra (1992) – Nancy Barbato Sinatra
• Melrose Place (1993) – Ellen
• Love Matters (1993)-Heat
• Legalese (1998) – Angela
• Snoops (1999) – Glenn Hall
• The Job (2001?) – Herself
• Just Shoot Me! (2002–03) – Rhonda Ferrara (two episodes)
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003) – Shikata (voice)
• Crossing Jordan(2004) – Charlie Davis (Season 4, Episode 19)
• Tripping the Rift (2004) – Six (voice, replaced by Carmen Electra in Season 2)
• The Practice (2004) – Glenn Hall
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (2004 & 2007) – Anna
• The Batman (2004–08) – Catwoman (voice)
• Ugly Betty (2006–2007) – Fabia (Season 1, Episode 1, 14, 23)
• Psych (2007) – Emilina Saffron (episode "American Duos")
• Rescue Me (2007) – Valerie (episodes "Solo", "Animal", "High", "Cycle", "Keefe", and "Yaz")
• Numb3rs^[11]
• Eastbound & Down (2009) – (Season 1, Episode 5 "Chapter 5")
• Everything She Ever Wanted (2009) – Lifetime Movie Network miniseries
• Life on Mars (2009)
• How to Make It in America (2011)

Broadway[link]

• Cabaret (1998 revival) – Sally Bowles
• Boeing Boeing (2008 revival) – Gabriella
• Bye Bye Birdie (2009 revival) – Rose Alvarez

Music[link]

• In Search of Cleo (2007)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gina Gershon

• Official website (features detailed filmography, biography, news)
• Gina Gershon at the Internet Movie Database
• Gina Gershon at the Notable Names Database
• Q&A from Entertainment Weekly (June 19, 2007)

Seth Franklin Berkley, M.D. (born in 1956 in New York, NY) is a medical epidemiologist by training. He is the CEO of the GAVI Alliance and a global advocate on the power of vaccines. He is also the founder and former President and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).^[1]. Graduated McBurney School, New York, 1974, he received a Bachelor of Science and medical degrees from Brown University, and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.^[2] Berkley has been featured on the cover of Newsweek ^[3] and recognized by Wired Magazine as among "The Wired 25" ^[4] - a salute to dreamers, inventors, mavericks and leaders - as well as by TIME magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2009.^[5] In 2010, Fortune magazine named Berkley as one of its "Global Forum Visionaries." ^[6] Speaking at the TED 2010 conference, Dr. Berkley explains how innovative vaccine design and production technologies are bringing us closer to controlling global health threats like flu and HIV.^[7]

Early career[link]

From 1984 to 1986, Berkley worked as a medical epidemiologist for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. While working for the CDC, Berkley was involved in, among other things, managing the national Toxic Shock Syndrome surveillance system. He also conducted an investigation of an outbreak of Brazilian Purpuric Fever, a disease that was killing children in Brazil, and helped to discover the etiologic agent. In 1986, on assignment from the CDC, Berkley served as an epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, working on routine surveillance and outbreak investigations.

A year later, while working for the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Berkley was assigned as an epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health in Uganda. In this role, he worked to establish and manage the Ugandan surveillance system for AIDS, validate the AIDS clinical case definition for Africa and assist with the conduct and analysis of the national HIV sero-survey. Berkley played a role in helping to develop Uganda’s National AIDS Control programs, and served as an attending internal medicine physician at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.

Subsequently, Berkley worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, initially as Program Scientist and finally as Associate Director of the Health Sciences Division. During his eight years with the Rockefeller Foundation, Berkley managed programs in epidemiology, public health, medical and nursing education, vaccination, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases and reproductive health in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Some of his initiatives included developing a public health training program, Public Health School without Walls, which began in Zimbabwe, Ghana, Uganda, and then spread to Vietnam, as well as an international program to support non-governmental organizations working on AIDS, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.

GAVI Alliance[link]

Berkley joined the GAVI Alliance as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in August 2011.^[8] The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership whose mission is to save children’s lives and protect people’s health by increasing access to immunisation in developing countries.^[9]

Since its launch in 2000, GAVI has prevented more than five million future deaths and helped protect 288 million children with new and underused vaccines.^[10] Under Berkley’s leadership, the Alliance plans to deliver vaccines to another quarter of a billion children and prevent four million more deaths by 2015.^[11]

The GAVI Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialised and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society organizations, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists.^[12]

The IAVI Years[link]

In 1994, the Rockefeller Foundation, where Berkley was serving as Associate Director of Health Sciences, convened a series of international consensus meetings on the need for a new effort to address existing barriers to the development of an AIDS vaccine and jump-start AIDS vaccine research. These meetings, culminating in a conference in Bellagio, Italy, became the impetus for the establishment of IAVI in 1996 as an international NGO tasked with aggressively pursuing previously neglected approaches to AIDS vaccine development. Berkley was appointed interim President and later became CEO.^[13]

Under Berkley’s leadership, the organization evolved into a worldwide public-private product development partnership with a staff of more than 200 employees that has worked with partners in 25 countries and, with partners, conducted 24 HIV vaccine trials.^[14]

Professional Affiliations[link]

Berkley sits on a number of international steering committees and corporate and not-for-profit boards, including those of Gilead Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Acumen Fund, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.^[15] Berkley is a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel assisting the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention.^[2]

• Fellow, American College of Physicians^[16]
• Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations^[17]
• Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America^[16]
• Fellow, Massachusetts Medical Society^[16]
• Founding Member, The Network of AIDS Researchers of Eastern and Southern Africa^[16]

Berkley formerly served on the boards of Oxfam America, the Guttmacher Institute, Village Reach, VaxInnate, Powderject and Napo pharmaceuticals.^[18]

Academic Appointments[link]

• Adjunct Professor, Brown University School of Medicine^[19]
• Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health^[20]
• Adjunct Professor, New York University School of Medicine^[21]

Publications[link]

Books[link]

• Jamison DT, Bobadilla JL, Hecht R, Hill K, Musgrove P, Saxenian H, Tan JP, Berkley S, Murray C. Investing in Health: The 1993 World Development Report, Oxford University Press 1993.

• Armstrong D, Cohen J, Berkley S, Carbon CJ, Clumeck N, Durack DT, Finch RG, Kiehn TE, Louria DB, McAdam K, Norrby SR, Opal SM, Polsky BW, Quie PG, Ronald AR, Solberg CO, Verhoef J, eds. Infectious Diseases. Mosby, London, 1999.

• Cohen J, Powderly WG, Berkley S, Calandra T, Clumeck N, Finch RG, Hammer SM, Holland SM, Kiehn TE, Maki DG, McAdam K, Norrby SR, Opal SM, Ronald AR, Solberg CO, Verhoef J, eds. Infectious Diseases, Second Edition. Mosby, London, 2004.

Scientific Articles[link]

• Berkley SF, Hightower AH, Broome CV, Reingold AL. The relationship of tampon characteristics to menstrual toxic shock syndrome. JAMA 1987; 258:917-920.

• The Brazilian Purpuric Fever Study Group (report written by Fleming DW and Berkley SF). Brazilian Purpuric Fever: Epidemic purpura fulminans associated with antecedent purulent conjunctivitis. Lancet 1987; 8562:757-761.

• The Brazilian Purpuric Fever Study Group (report written by Berkley SF and Harrison L). Haemophilus aegyptius bacteremia in Brazilian Purpuric Fever. Lancet 1987;8562:761-763.

• Berkley SF, Widy-Wirski R, Okware SI, Downing R, Linnan MJ, White KE, Sempala S. Risk factors associated with HIV infection in Uganda. J Infec Dis 1989; 160:22-30.

• Berkley SF, Naamara W, Okware SI, Downing R, Konde-lule J, Wawer M, Musagaara M, Musgrave S. AIDS and HIV Infection in women in Uganda—are women more infected than males. AIDS 1990; 4:1237-1242.

• Heeler C, Berkley SF. Initial lessons from emerging public-private partnerships in drug and vaccine development. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001, 79:728-734.

• Klausner RD, Fauci AS, Corey L, Nabel GJ, Gayle H, Berkley S, et al. The Need for a Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise. Science, Jun 27 2003: 2036-2039.

• Berkley SF. Thorny issues in the ethics of AIDS vaccine trials. The Lancet, 2003; 362: 992.

• Berkley SF. Ending an Epidemic: The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative pioneers a public-private partnership. Innovations, 2006; 1:52-66.

• Berkley SF, Koff WC. Scientific and policy challenges to development of an AIDS vaccine. The Lancet, 2007; 370: 94-101.

See also[link]

• GAVI Alliance
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• HIV vaccine

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• “Where Is The HIV Vaccine?”, New York Times, July 2010
• “The Renaissance in HIV Vaccine Development – Future Directions”, New England Journal of Medicine, July 2010
• “HIV and flu - the vaccine strategy.” Q&A with Seth Berkley on TED.com
• “Have Faith in an AIDS Vaccine”, New York Times, October 2009
• Seth Berkley on Huffington Post
• “A Shot at Stopping AIDS”, Washington Post, December 2007
• “Seth Berkley: A Warrior in the AIDS Battle”, BusinessWeek, November 2004
• “15 Minutes with Seth Berkley”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2004

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Seth Berkley

• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Seth Berkley: HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy - TED 2010
• Seth Berkley on Twitter
• Charlie Rose Interview – July 24, 2007
• Charlie Rose Interview – August 7, 2006
• The Hunt for an AIDS Vaccine, 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival
• Video: Toward a World Without AIDS

Elizabeth Berkley
with husband Greg Lauren (2008)
Born	(1972-07-28) July 28, 1972 (age 39)[1] Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986–present
Spouse	Greg Lauren (m. 2003–present)
Awards	NBR Award for Best Cast 1996 The First Wives Club

Elizabeth Berkley (born July 28, 1972)^[1] is an American television, film, and theatre actress. Berkley's most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls, as exotic stripper Nomi Malone.

Early life[link]

Berkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills, a community located among Detroit's northern suburbs in Oakland County, Michigan. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift basket business owner, and Fred Berkley, a lawyer.^[2] She was raised in a Jewish family.^[3] Berkley was born with heterochromia, the condition of differently coloured irises, so that her right eye is half green and half brown, and her left eye is all green. She graduated in 1990 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills after previously having attended the Cranbrook Kingswood School, a private school in Bloomfield Hills.

From a young age she danced, and she practiced in a room that her parents arranged for her in the basement of their house. In 1982 at age ten she auditioned for the lead role in the film Annie, but was turned down. As her love for dancing increased, she became more interested in pursuing it professionally, traveling to New York to train with other dancers and choreographers.^[4] She began to take part in several ballets, including Swan Lake and in 1983 she appeared in some musicals.^[5]

Career[link]

Berkley was a teen model for Elite before pursuing an acting career.^[6] She made her television film debut in 1987 with a role in the television film Frog and following this, made a number of guest appearances on several television shows. In 1989, at the age of seventeen, she auditioned for the role of Kelly Kapowski in Saved by the Bell, but the producers of the show could not decide whether to cast her or Tiffani Thiessen. In the end, they created for Berkley the character Jessie Spano, a role she played from 1989 to 1993, as well as in both of the show's television film installments.

After leaving Saved by the Bell to try to break into film, Berkley auditioned for (and won) the role of Nomi Malone, a character in the infamous 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls. The sex- and nudity-laden film was given a controversial NC-17 rating in the United States (the first big budget film that was deliberately intended to receive this rating), was a box office bomb,^[7][8][9] and was widely panned by critics.

Following the failure of Showgirls and being awarded two Razzie awards for her performance in the film, Berkley decided to audition for smaller roles in quality films, hoping to improve upon her acting skills before accepting another leading role.^{[citation needed]} As a result, she appeared in a small role in The First Wives Club, a comedy starring Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, and Bette Midler, before accepting the title role in the straight to video anime Armitage III: Poly Matrix which also starred Kiefer Sutherland. She then played a Madonna body double named Tina in the independent film The Real Blonde.

As time has put distance between Berkley and the infamous film (which has since achieved cult status among film fans and placed number 36 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 50 Cult Movies and is also one of top 20 highest grossing films of all time for MGM),^[10] she has performed in strong supporting roles in independent films such as The Taxman, Tail Lights Fade, Roger Dodger (which her manager advised her not to do), and Moving Malcolm. She also had a small role as a call girl hired by Al Pacino's character in Oliver Stone's sports drama Any Given Sunday, as well as a key supporting role in Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

Berkley appeared on stage opposite Eddie Izzard for her role as Honey in the London stage version of Lenny. She went on to make her Broadway debut in the comedy Sly Fox, opposite Richard Dreyfuss in February 2004, just three months after her marriage to artist Greg Lauren. She replaced Catherine Kellner as Bonnie in the 2005 Off Broadway production of David Rabe's Hurlyburly, appearing alongside Ethan Hawke, Parker Posey, and Bobby Cannavale.

Berkley received much praise for her role in Hurlyburly, with Charles Isherwood of The New York Times even going as far as apologizing to her for his past criticisms of her ability, stating that the fact she held "her own among this skilled company of scene-stealers is a testament to how much her talent has grown".^[11] Her most recent stage appearance was at the sixth annual 24 Hour Plays alongside Jennifer Aniston, Rosie Perez, and Lili Taylor, in which six writers, six directors, twenty-four actors, and production crews have twenty-four hours to write, direct, and perform six ten-minute plays.^[12]

Berkley has been seen in many dramatic television roles, guest starring on series such as CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Threshold, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. However, she stayed true to her comic roots with a recurring role in the successful and critically acclaimed sitcom Titus, in which she played the title character's sister, Shannon. She also starred in the Lifetime television film Student Seduction, in which she played Christie Dawson, a high school teacher wrongfully accused of sexual harassment by one of her students who becomes obsessed with her.^[13] This was followed by another made-for-television film in 2007, entitled Black Widow in which she played a woman suspected of killing her husbands for their money. The film Meet Market, which she starred in along with Julian McMahon, Krista Allen, and Aisha Tyler was released straight to DVD in 2008 after having been in limbo since it was completed in 2004.

In 2008, Berkley signed on to star in a multi-episode arc of CSI: Miami, in which she plays Horatio Caine's (David Caruso) ex-lover, Julia Winston, who is also the mother of his recently discovered son.^[14] The episodes which Berkley appeared in were very highly rated and all of them featured in the top 10 Nielsen ratings chart.^[15] She has since appeared in the show's season six finale.^[16]

Berkley hosted Bravo's reality series, Step It Up and Dance, a competition featuring the exploits of ten wannabe dancers who compete against each other to win a cash prize of $100,000 as well as the opportunity to work with and perform for some of the country's top choreographers.^[17] The show premiered in April 2008 on Bravo and was cancelled after the first season. The show came out as the network's strongest ever in its time slot (10/11c) with 826,000 viewers.^[18] The show continued to perform well throughout its run, averaging 756,000 viewers each week – of whom 522,000 were aged 18 to 49 – and helped contribute to Bravo's highest-rated April ever.^[19] According to Berkley hosting the show is a very fulfilling job. She was recently quoted as saying that she gets "invested in the dancers" because she has befriended many of them offstage.^[20] Despite the show's success, it was not renewed for a second season and its show page has since been removed from the Bravo website.

During the press tour for Step It Up and Dance, Berkley appeared on various shows including various morning news programs, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Fuse TV's The Sauce, E!'s Chelsea Lately, CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, and ABC's The View. While on The View, she spoke of her admiration for co-host Whoopi Goldberg, calling her "an extraordinary being". Her appearance on the show was unique in that she brought the ladies of the show tap shoes and taught them a short dance routine.^{[citation needed]} Berkley starred alongside Thomas Jane in the David Arquette directed short film The Butler's in Love which premiered at Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles in June 2008.

In 2009, Berkley starred in a multi-episode arc of the Showtime series The L Word, during its sixth and final season. She played Kelly Wentworth, the straight girl that got away from Jennifer Beals' character Bette Porter in college. Berkley and Beals are best friends in real life, having previously worked on the 2002 independent film Roger Dodger.^[21] She continued with television work, reprising her role as Julia Winston in CSI: Miami, appearing in three more episodes, including the season seven finale. She was cast as Trudy, a former drug addict turned born again Christian who becomes infatuated with her pastor in the sequel to cult hit Donnie Darko, S. Darko. She will also appear as Tracy in the upcoming comedy Women in Trouble.

While making an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in June 2009, Berkley's Saved by the Bell co-star Mark-Paul Gosselaar – as Zack Morris^[22] – expressed his desire to take part in Fallon's "class reunion" of the show's original cast members and revealed that Berkley has also agreed to take part in the reformation.^[23] It is unclear whether the reunion will simply be an interview with the original cast on an episode of Fallon's show, or whether a new television film or series will be produced.

It was also confirmed that Berkley, in conjunction with MTV, is developing a reality series which focuses on her Ask-Elizabeth self-help program—and has the same name as its working title, Ask-Elizabeth—for teen girls. The show will follow the actress as she travels around the country and meets with girls of all ages to discuss various topics that are important to them. The show was expected to air in late 2009, but the show was pushed back indefinitely.^[24]

In 2011, Berkley played the lead female role in Hallmark Channel's original movie "Lucky Christmas", about a woman who wins the lottery only to have to recover the ticket from the glove compartment of her stolen car. The film premiered on Hallmark Movie Channel on November 12, 2011.^[25]

Personal life[link]

Berkley in an advertisement for PETA

Berkley is a committed animal rights activist and in 1997, donned a $600 form-fitting gown made entirely of collard greens for the "Lettuce Be Lean" campaign, sponsored by PETA to try to encourage people to embrace vegetarianism.^[26] In 2008 & 2009, she was among a number of celebrities included in an online poll by PETA to select the "Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year".^[27]

In 2000, Berkley was made the subject of a $45 million lawsuit when actor and screenwriter Roger Wilson took action against Leonardo DiCaprio, claiming that DiCaprio had encouraged his friends to assault Wilson in a street fight after he tried to defend Berkley, who had been the subject of DiCaprio and his friends' unwanted advances.^[28]

On November 1, 2003, Berkley married artist and occasional actor Greg Lauren at the Esperanza Hotel in Cabo San Lucas. Berkley formally changed her name to Elizabeth Berkley Lauren, however, she still uses her maiden name professionally.^[29] On March 5, 2012, Berkley announced she was expecting her first child in the summer.^[30]

In 2006, she created her own website to help teen girls. The website, which she facilitates herself is a self-esteem program called Ask-Elizabeth.^[31]

Filmography[link]

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