Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, producer, author, and activist. Silverstone made her film debut in The Crush, earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and gained further prominence as a teen idol when she appeared in three music videos for the band Aerosmith. She starred in the 1995 hit Clueless and in the bigbudget 1997 film Batman amp Robin, in which she played Batgirl. She has continued to act in film and television and on stage. For her role in the shortlived drama comedy Miss Match, Silverstone received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress Television Series Musical or Comedy. A vegan, Silverstone endorsed PETA activities and published a book titled The Kind Diet.

Silverstone was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Deirdre Didi , a Scottish former Pan Am flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, an English real estate agent. She grew up in Hillsborough, California. Her father was born to a Jewish family and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage Silverstone had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. Silverstone began modeling when she was six years old, and was subsequently cast in television commercials, the first being for Dominos Pizza. She attended Crocker Middle School and then San Mateo High School.

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