| BIOGRAPHY
A student of dance since she was four, rising Hollywood star
Elizabeth Berkely has been in show business since the age of nine.
She got her start in television appearing in over a dozen series,
the best-known of which is Saved By the Bell, in which she played
proto-feminist high school student Jesse Spano from 1989 to 1991.
Berkely made her feature film debut billed as Macrame Girl in
the Patrick Swayze/Keanu Reeves vehicle Point Break (1991).
In 1995, Berkely gained national notoriety and proved that she
had come a long way since Jesse Spano when she played the trashy,
determined, and frequently naked lead in the Joe Esterhaz-penned,
Paul Verhoeven-directed Showgirls (1995), a glitzy exploitation
film that, while one of the year's biggest stinkers, gained popularity
on the midnight movie circuit, especially among drag queens.
While such negative publicity as was received by Showgirls can
be instant death to a budding career, Berkely has continued to
appear in films such as The First Wives Club (1996) as a supporting
actress. |
FILMOGRAPHY
• Control Factor (2003)
• Detonator (2003)
• Roger Dodger (2002)
• The Shipment (2002)
• The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
• Any Given Sunday (1999)
• Random Encounter (1999)
• Tail Lights Fade (1999)
• The Real Blonde (1998)
• Taxman (1998)
• A Time to Revenge (1997)
• The First Wives Club (1996)
• Showgirls (1995)
• White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1995) |
