Elisabeth Shue

Elisabeth Shue

1963-10-06 Wilmington, Delaware, USA 50 Credits

Biography

Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6, 1963) is an American actress, best known for her starring roles in the films The Karate Kid (1984), Adventures in Babysitting (1987), Cocktail (1988), Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Soapdish (1991), Leaving Las Vegas (1995), The Saint (1997), Hollow Man (2000), and Piranha 3D (2010). She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She starred as Julie Finlay ...

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The Good Half

The Good Half

2024

as Lily Wheeland

6.0
Acting

Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting h...

Greyhound

Greyhound

2020

as Evelyn

7.4
Acting

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines...

Death Wish

Death Wish

2018

as Lucy Kersey

6.2
Acting

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Battle of the Sexes

Battle of the Sexes

2017

as Priscilla Riggs

6.8
Acting

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Behaving Badly

Behaving Badly

2014

as Pamela Bender

5.3
Acting

Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a d...

Chasing Mavericks

Chasing Mavericks

2012

as Christy Moriarity

7.0
Acting

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

House at the End of the Street

House at the End of the Street

2012

as Dr. Sarah Cassidy

5.8
Acting

A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter be...

Hope Springs

Hope Springs

2012

as Karen, The Bartender

6.3
Acting

After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

Waking Madison

Waking Madison

2011

as Dr. Elizabeth Barnes

5.5
Acting

A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Janie Jones

Janie Jones

2010

as Mary Ann Jones

6.2
Acting

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Piranha 3D

Piranha 3D

2010

as Julie Forester

5.4
Acting

Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, a...

Don McKay

Don McKay

2009

as Sonny

4.9
Acting

Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2

2008

as Elisabeth Shue

5.9
Acting

Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical ...

Gracie

Gracie

2007

as Lindsay Bowen

6.2
Acting

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Gracie

Gracie

2007

Producer

6.2
Producing

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

First Born

First Born

2007

as Laura

5.0
Acting

Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dre...

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

2005

as Lily

7.0
Acting

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrifice...

Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin

2005

as Mrs. McCormick

7.7
Acting

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

2005

as Elizabeth

6.3
Acting

David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his ...

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting

2002

as Narrator (voice)

6.6
Acting

Teenager Winnie Foster is growing up in a small rural town in 1914 with her loving but overprotective parents, but Winnie longs for a life of greater ...

Leo

Leo

2002

as Mary Bloom

6.2
Acting

A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentenc...

The First Year

The First Year

2001

as Narrator

7.0
Acting

This fascinating documentary chronicles the emotional turmoil of five Los Angeles schoolteachers charged with educating inner-city youth, making it cl...

Amy & Isabelle

Amy & Isabelle

2001

as Isabelle Goodrow

5.2
Acting

In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has o...

Hollow Man

Hollow Man

2000

as Linda McKay

5.9
Acting

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pu...

Molly

Molly

1999

as Molly McKay

4.2
Acting

Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car acc...

Cousin Bette

Cousin Bette

1998

as Jenny Cadine

5.7
Acting

Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her ...

City of Angels

City of Angels

1998

as Pregnant Woman

6.8
Acting

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders tradi...

Palmetto

Palmetto

1998

as Rhea Malroux

5.9
Acting

After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feelin...

Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry

1997

as Fay Sexton

7.3
Acting

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated fr...

The Saint

The Saint

1997

as Emma Russell

6.1
Acting

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on t...

The Trigger Effect

The Trigger Effect

1996

as Annie

5.8
Acting

A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environmen...

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

1995

as Sera

7.3
Acting

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...

The Underneath

The Underneath

1995

as Susan Crenshaw

5.6
Acting

A recovering gambling addict attempts to reconcile with his family and friends but finds trouble and temptation when caught between feelings for his e...

Blind Justice

Blind Justice

1994

as Caroline

5.1
Acting

Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a tow...

Radio Inside

Radio Inside

1994

as Natalie

4.7
Acting

As two brothers fall in love with the same woman they must come to grips with the accidental death of their father in this sensitive drama set in Miam...

Twenty Bucks

Twenty Bucks

1993

as Emily Adams

5.8
Acting

A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Heart and Souls

Heart and Souls

1993

as Anne

6.9
Acting

A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the l...

Soapdish

Soapdish

1991

as Lori Craven

6.3
Acting

Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, ...

The Marrying Man

The Marrying Man

1991

as Adele Horner

5.6
Acting

Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas...

Back to the Future Part III

Back to the Future Part III

1990

as Jennifer

7.5
Acting

The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time mac...

Back to the Future Part II

Back to the Future Part II

1989

as Jennifer

7.8
Acting

Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff...

Cocktail

Cocktail

1988

as Jordan Mooney

6.1
Acting

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine ar...

Adventures in Babysitting

Adventures in Babysitting

1987

as Chris Parker

6.9
Acting

When plans with her boyfriend fall through, high school senior Chris Parker ends up babysitting the Anderson kids, Brad and Sara. What should be a qui...

Double Switch

Double Switch

1987

as Kathy

5.0
Acting

Teeny bopper rock star Bart Holton is pushed around by his manager for maximum profit and longs for a normal life. Through a look-alike contest he mee...

Link

Link

1986

as Jane Chase

6.2
Acting

Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanz...

Call to Glory

Call to Glory

1984

as Jackie Sarnac

7.0
Acting

Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the political tensions of the early 60's. Actual histori...

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid

1984

as Ali Mills

7.2
Acting

New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target ...

Somewhere, Tomorrow

Somewhere, Tomorrow

1983

as Margie

4.4
Acting

Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother moves on, Lori finds herself stuck, consumed by grief ...

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

1982

as Lynn Osborne (as Lisa Shue)

4.7
Acting

The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Cath...

Whalefall

N/A

Acting

A scuba diver in search of his deceased father's remains gets swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his o...