ELISABETH SHUE

Elisabeth Shue (October 6, 1963 -), whose full name is Elisabeth Judson Shue, is an American actress. Shue entered Wellesley Collegefrom high school initially. Then, she transferred to Harvard University in 1985, dropped out from there and pursued an acting career, one semester short of earning her degree. More than ten years later, she came back to Harvard and received a Bachelor of Arts degree, Political Science Major in 2000.

Shue started her acting career in the TV advertising and became familiar face in Burger King’s advertising by people. In the 1995 work “The Underneath”, she played a helpless prostitute living in Las Vegas, winning her the Independent Spirit Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and the National Society of Film Critics Best Actress award, as well as Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, British Film Academy Awards and Oscar nominations for Best Actress.