Friday, June 29, 2007

Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone, born October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California is an American actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith and later starred in Hollywood films such as Clueless and Batman & Robin.

Silverstone won a leading part in the 1993 film The Crush, playing a girl who sets out to ruin an older man after her teenage crush is spurned; she wontwo awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role for Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Villian. After seeing her in The Crush, Marty Callner decided she'dbe perfect for a role in a music video he was direction for the band Aerosmith, called "Cryin", and then the following two videos "Crazy" and "Amazing".These were hugely successful both for the band and Silverstone gaining her the nickname, "the Aerosmith chick".



Silverstone married longtime boyfriend, rock musician Christopher Jarecki, in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe on June 11, 2005. The couple had dated for eight years prior to being married, after meeting outside a movie theater in 1997. They live in an eco-friendly Los Angeles house complete with solar panels and an organic vegetable garden. She bought the house, shared with a "menagerie of rescued dogs.

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