Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Judson Shueis an American actress, known for her roles in the films The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Soapdish, Leaving Las Vegas, The Saint, and Hollow Man. She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay in the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from 2012 to 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth6 October 1963
CountryUnited States of America
She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is working, she comes, and she runs and hugs everybody in the morning, and her beautiful smile just sort of forces everybody, pushes them, to open up to the day.
We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing every day, pretending I was on a horse. It's still my dream to have a horse one day.
I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
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.
Every experience makes you grow.
What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.
Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.