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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Good Half
2024
as Lily Wheeland
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
2020
as Evelyn
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
2018
as Lucy Kersey
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

Battle of the Sexes
2017
as Priscilla Riggs
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
2014
as Pamela Bender
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
2012
as Christy Moriarity
Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

House at the End of the Street
2012
as Dr. Sarah Cassidy
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
2012
as Karen, The Bartender
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

Waking Madison
2011
as Dr. Elizabeth Barnes
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.

Janie Jones
2010
as Mary Ann Jones
A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Piranha 3D
2010
as Julie Forester
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
2009
as Sonny
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.

Hamlet 2
2008
as Elisabeth Shue
Failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher Dana Marschz rallies his Tucson students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical ...

Gracie
2007
as Lindsay Bowen
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Gracie
2007
Producer
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

First Born
2007
as Laura
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
2005
as Lily
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
2005
as Mrs. McCormick
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Hide and Seek
2005
as Elizabeth
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
2002
as Narrator (voice)
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
2002
as Mary Bloom
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
2001
as Narrator
This fascinating documentary chronicles the emotional turmoil of five Los Angeles schoolteachers charged with educating inner-city youth, making it cl...

Amy & Isabelle
2001
as Isabelle Goodrow
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
2000
as Linda McKay
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pu...

Molly
1999
as Molly McKay
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
1998
as Jenny Cadine
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
1998
as Pregnant Woman
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
1998
as Rhea Malroux
After spending two years in prison, framed for accepting a bribe, former newspaper reporter Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. Feelin...

Deconstructing Harry
1997
as Fay Sexton
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
1997
as Emma Russell
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
1996
as Annie
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
1995
as Sera
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
1995
as Susan Crenshaw
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
1994
as Caroline
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
1994
as Natalie
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
1993
as Emily Adams
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
1993
as Anne
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
1991
as Lori Craven
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
1991
as Adele Horner
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
1990
as Jennifer
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
1989
as Jennifer
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
1988
as Jordan Mooney
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
1987
as Chris Parker
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
1987
as Kathy
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
1986
as Jane Chase
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
1984
as Jackie Sarnac
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
1984
as Ali Mills
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
1983
as Margie
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
1982
as Lynn Osborne (as Lisa Shue)
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
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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...