ALICIA SILVERSTONE

                                                           ALICIA SILVERSTONE

                               

 

                     Born on October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California, Alicia Silverstone is the daughter of Monty Silverstone, a real-estate developer and Didi Radford, a former flight attendant.  Monty Silverstone was born in England and Didi Radford was born in Scotland. Monty Silverstone is Jewish and Didi converted to Judaism upon their marriage. Alicia Silverstone is the youngest of three children and also has a half-brother and half-sister from her father’s previous marriage.

                  

       Alicia Silverstone’s career began with her father sending out her picture to modeling agencies when she was six years old. Her first commercial was for Domino’s Pizza.  She did some modeling and other advertising work and eventually won the role the “dream girl” on The Wonder Years. Silverstone attended Hollywood High School, but dropped out before graduation; she later earned her GED. In 1993, Silverstone starred in “The Crush,” a movie that went on to become a cult favorite. Her biggest break came when Silverstone was cast as a sexy, rebellious teenager in a series of videos by the rock band Aerosmith. Those videos caught the attention of director Amy Heckerling, who was looking for a lead for her movie, “Clueless.” Released in 1995, “Clueless” shot Silverstone to fame and resulted in her receiving a three-year first-look deal for her production company, First Kiss Productions. In 1996, Silverstone was named “Best Female Performer” and “Most Desirable Female” by the MTV Movie Awards.

              

                Silverstone’s career success has varied since the juggernaut that was “Clueless.”
In the intervening years she married rock musician Christopher Jarecki on June 11, 2005. Silverstone’s engagement ring belonged to Jarecki’s grandmother and the couple lives in a eco-friendly house in Los Angeles. Silverstone has appeared in movies such as “Batman and Robin” (1997), “Blast From the Past” (1999), “Love’s Labour Lost” (2000)“Beauty Shop” (2005), and on television series such as “Miss Match,” (2003), and “Pink Collar” (2006-2007). In addition to this short-lived television series work, Silverstone starred in the television movie “Candles on Bay Street.”

 

Silverstone married her longtime boyfriend, rock musician (for the band S.T.U.N.) and basketball coach Christopher Arrack in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe, on June 11, 2005. After meeting outside a movie theater in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage. They got engaged about a year before their marriage and Jarecki presented Silverstone with an engagement ring that had belonged to his grandmother.

        Silverstone and Jarecki live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles Los Angles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden She bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs," in 1996. 

                     Silverstone is noted for being an animal rights and environmental activist. She became a vegan in 1998 after attending an animal rights meeting. "I realized that I was the problem," she told in style  Home, in Spring 2007. "I was an animal lover who was eating animals." She has revealed she struggled with childhood vegetarianism stating "There were times when I would get selfish and eat meat—at eight years old it's hard to stick to your guns—and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian." In 2004, Silverstone was voted, "Sexiest Female Vegetarian," by Peta. In 2007, Silverstone appeared nude in a print advertisement and 30-second commercial for PETA championing vegetarianism; the TV spot was subsequently pulled from the Houston,Texas, market by Comcast Cable Silverstone has set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angles

Federal campaign contribution records also reveal that Silverstone contributed USD500 to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign She also supported Barack Obamas presidential candidacy. 

               Silverstone is noted for being an animal rights and environmental activist. She became a vegan in 1998 after attending an animal rights meeting. "I realized that I was the problem," she told in style  Home, in Spring 2007. "I was an animal lover who was eating animals." She has revealed she struggled with childhood vegetarianism stating "There were times when I would get selfish and eat meat—at eight years old it's hard to stick to your guns—and so through the years I was always starting and stopping trying to be a vegetarian." In 2004, Silverstone was voted, "Sexiest Female Vegetarian," by Peta. In 2007, Silverstone appeared nude in a print advertisement and 30-second commercial for PETA championing vegetarianism; the TV spot was subsequently pulled from the Houston,Texas, market by Comcast Cable Silverstone has set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angles

Federal campaign contribution records also reveal that Silverstone contributed USD500 to Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign She also supported Barack Obamas presidential candidacy.

                             On May 23, 2007, Silverstone was a guest on abs's the view. Moments before she entered, hosts Rosie ODonnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck had a heated argument regarding the iraq war.. The video segment shows Silverstone entering and walking past Hasselbeck to greet the other hosts. Though the interview continued normally and featured easy conversation between Silverstone and Hasselbeck, access Hollywiood seemed the act a deliberate snub. Hasselbeck later revealed, on an episode of The View which aired September 19, 2007, that Silverstone called and apologized for the incident. Hasselbeck said that Silverstone never meant to be rude, but was simply nervous when she walked on the stage and believed that incident was wrongly perceived by the media.

                             In 2009, she appeared in "The Gaythering Storm," a Funny or Die spoof internet video parodying anti-same-sex marriage commercial "The Gathering Storm." She also appeared in "My Mother's Red Hat" with  Alanis Morissette parodying indie movies.