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Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress and producer, most famous for her roles in the films The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Back to the Future Parts II and III and Leaving Las Vegas, for which she won five acting awards and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her mother, Anne Harms (née Wells), was vice president of the private banking division of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Her father, James Shue, a lawyer and real estate developer, was the president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Congress in New Jersey in 1970, as a liberal Republican. Shue's mother was a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster, while her father's family emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in the early 19th century. Shue's younger brother, Andrew, is also an actor.
Shue grew up in Bergen and Essex counties in New Jersey. Her parents divorced while she was in the fourth grade.[dead link] Shue graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College and Harvard University, from which she withdrew to pursue her acting career. She returned to Harvard to finish her degree in Government in 2000. Shue was awarded entrance into Columbia High School's Wall of Fame in 1994, along with her brother Andrew.
Actors: Elisabeth Shue (actress), Marshall Bell (actor), Irwin M. Rappaport (miscellaneous crew), Steve Coogan (actor), David Arquette (actor), Laura Sevier (miscellaneous crew), Alex Gianopoulos (miscellaneous crew), Amy Poehler (actress), Catherine Keener (actress), Arlin Alcala (actress), Marco Rodríguez (actor), Mamie Mitchell (miscellaneous crew), J.D. Garfield (actor), Jason A. McCauley (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Wiggins (actor),
Plot: Dana Marschz is a failed actor and recovering alcoholic who's moved to Tucson to teach high school drama, where he's plagued by bad reviews, student indifference, budget woes (he and his wife, who is trying to get pregnant, take in a boarder), and his own teaching limitations. Because the other electives are closed, he finds himself with a large class of seeming gang-bangers, and the principal informs him that drama will be cut next trimester. On the advice of a student reviewer, Dana decides to stage his own play, a sequel to "Hamlet" in which the prince and Jesus, with the use of a time machine, try to save Gertrude and Ophelia. Can Dana for once pull something off?
Keywords: abusive-relationship, acid-the-drug, aclu, acting, actor, actress, alcoholic, alcoholics-anonymous, amateur-actor, amateur-actressIf you're feeling lonely and if you're feeling blue and
things are at their worst/If you know your history then
just what I do: Sing a song about Elizabeth the First/
Some say she was a tyrant. She was mean to all her
vassals/But then hey, I wasn't there. Maybe her vassals
all were assholes/And her daddy left four step moms with
the women that he wedded/And he got a little paranoid and
had her mom beheaded/And her cousin tried to kill her so
she locked her in a garrison/It makes your folks divorce
seem pretty minor by comparison/Oh, Elizabeth, get some
sleep/Take that crazy crown on off your head/The Spanish
armada has been battled back to Spain/And now you run the
middle ages from the middle of your bed/She had a lot of
suitors. Lots of princes made a pass at her/I bet that
once or twice she would make out with an ambassador/But
the couriers and courtiers were uppity and boring/She had
crushes on explorers but they always went exploring/So
she never kept a king. She held her independence higher
and/Her sexual frustration, she just took it out on
Ireland/Oh, Elizabeth, get some sleep/Wipe that crazy
frown on off your head/The Catholic insurgents are all
lying in a ditch/And now you run the middle ages from the
middle of your bed/And they named a colony after her/And
they called it Virginia cuz she's the Virgin Queen/Which
seems to me awfully personal/Oh, Elizabeth, get some
sleep/Wipe those crazy tears on off your head/Your poets
and your pirates they all like you as a friend/And you