Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress, philanthropist, and producer. Her most notable roles were as Jessie Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell, and as Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls. She’s also known for portraying the title role in the English dub of the anime film Armitage III: Poly-Matrix.
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Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress, philanthropist, and producer. Her most notable roles were as Jessie Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell, and as Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls. She’s also known for portraying the title role in the English dub of the anime film Armitage III: Poly-Matrix and her supporting roles in the films The First Wives Club and Roger Dodger. In theater, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the play Hurlyburly. Berkley appeared on stage opposite Eddie Izzard for her role as Honey in the London stage version of Lenny in 1999. She went on her Broadway debut in the comedy Sly Fox, opposite Richard Dreyfuss, in February 2004, after her marriage to artist Greg Lauren. In 2006, she appeared at the sixth annual 24 Hour Plays festival alongside Jennifer Aniston, Anili Perez, and Bobby Cannavale. She was born with heterochromia, the condition of differently colored irises; her right eye is half green and half brown, and her left eye is all green. She also has a mole on her forehead, which she covers with camouflage makeup, saying it led to name-calling while growing up. She is the daughter of Jere, a gift-basket business owner, and Fred Berkley, a lawyer.
She has an older brother, Jason. She was raised in a Conservative Judaism household, and had a bat mitzvah. She graduated in 1990 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills after previously having attended the Cranbrook Kingswood School, a private school in Bloomfield Hills. She auditioned for the lead role in Annie, but was turned down. She began to take part in several ballets, including Swan Lake, and in 1983,. She appeared in some musicals. In 1989, at the age of 17, she auditioned. for the role of Kelly Kapowski in Saved By The Bell, but the producers of the show could not decide whether to cast Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or her. In the end, they created for Berkley the character Jessie spano, a role she played from 1989 to 1993. She then played a Madonna body double named Tina in the independent film The Real Blonde. In 2004, she replaced Keener as Bonnie in the Off Broadway production of David Rabe’s HurlyBurly, alongside Ethan Hawke, Ethan Parker and Bobby Posey. She had a small role as a call girl hired by Al Pacino’s character in Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, as well as a key supporting role in Woody Allen’s The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
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