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Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976, in San Francisco, California as the youngest of three children to parents Monty Silverstone, a real-estate investor, and Didi Silverstone, a former flight attendant. Alicia's career began at the tender age of six when her dad, Monty, took some photos of his young daughter.

The photos allowed her to get some modeling gigs which then led to television commercials. After a guest spot on andquot;The Wonder Yearsandquot; (1988) as a literal andquot;dream girlandquot; she moved on to movies. 

She landed a role in The Crush (1993), a sort of Fatal Attraction for teenagers in which she portrayed a disturbed young lady obsessed with an older man. The nasty little role didn't impress the critical establishment but it wowed its target audience of teenagers.

In fact, the role won her the 1994 MTV Movie Award for andquot;Best Villainandquot; and andquot;Breakthrough Performanceandquot;. It is interesting to note that during the filming of andquot;The Crushandquot; (1993), Alicia became an emancipated minor in order to get around child labor laws which would have interfered with her working hours. 

She was a dedicated actress from early on. The Crush (1993) also caught the attention of Aerosmith, who hired her to appear in a string of their music videos. The first of them, andquot;Cryin'andquot; was voted the number one video of all time on MTV.

Silverstone was definitely a hit with the MTV crowd, but larger commercial success had still eluded her. That all changed when she landed the role of andquot;Cherandquot; in Amy Heckerling's Clueless (1995). 

The andquot;Cherandquot; character was the antithesis of her role in The Crush (1993). This time around, Silverstone was a naive yet endearing girl from Beverly Hills in search of love in the nineties.

The film was a huge sleeper hit at the box office and wowed both audiences and critics alike. It also demonstrated Alicia's strength and bankable. She was hailed as the woman of the hour, and branded the spokeswoman for an emerging young generation.

She signed a deal with Columbia Tristar worth $10 million and got the coveted role of Batgirl in the Batman franchise. 

Also, as part of the package, she got a three-year first-look deal for her own production company, and 'First Kiss Productionsand'. The first film released by and 'First Kissand' was Excess Baggage (1997).