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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.

Born in Farmington Hills, Michigan on July 28th, 1972, baby Elizabeth Berkley showed an early aptitude for dance. At age five, her parents enrolled her at the Detroit Dance Company. As her love for dance grew with the years, she began performing at high-profile shows such as Swan Lake, which attracted large audiences. As talent scouts started to frequent her shows, her parents were able to land her parts on TV shows such as Gimme a Break! and Silver Spoons, when she was seven years old.

After her film debut in 1987's made-for-TV movie Frog, she landed her most important part yet: the role of Jessie Spano in the Saturday morning TV sensation, Saved by the Bell. After four successful seasons, Elizabeth was finally of age to start an official movie career. The 1995 release of Showgirls, however, was not the kind of beginning she had envisioned. Drooled over by men and vilified by the media for her portrayal of a lap dancer, she took most of the rap for the film's failure.

Admirably, Elizabeth kept plugging away, determined to make a positive name for herself in the movie industry. She continued to do television, and made guest appearances on NYPD Blue and Jack and Jill. In 1996, Goldie Hawn recommended her for a small role in the movie The First Wives Club after publicly stating that Elizabeth deserved a chance to redeem herself after doing Showgirls.

During the two subsequent years after The First Wives Club, Elizabeth starred in three movies that never really left their mark, including The Real Blonde. Spurned on by the desire to have a big box-office hit, she accepted roles in five movies in 1999, including a minor part in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday alongside Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz.

Always turned on by comedy, Elizabeth decided to return to television in the FOX sitcom Titus in 2001 and currently still makes an occasional appearance. Of late, Elizabeth's most notable project is Woody Allen's The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, released in 2001.

Aside from the silver screen, Elizabeth, who is a vegetarian, has posed for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). She has even claimed to have called restaurants located in America's ten "fattest" cities to encourage them to put more greens on the menu.

After her Showgirls days, she dated actor Roger Wilson, who, in 1999, got her in some hot water after filing a $45 million lawsuit against Leonardo DiCaprio and his crew. Wilson claimed to have a broken larynx and other injuries after duking it out with Leo and his crew over a pass the Titanic star allegedly made at Elizabeth. At last check, the leggy blonde parted ways with Wilson and was dating another actor, Greg Lauren.