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Elisabeth Shue is an American actress. She has starred in films such as 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), Piranha 3D (2010), Battle of the Sexes (2017), Death Wish (2018), and Greyhound (2020). For her performance in Leaving Las Vegas, she was nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress.
On television, Shue played Julie Finlay in the CBS procedural forensics crime drama thriller CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2012–2015) and Madelyn Stillwell in the Amazon Prime Video satirical superhero series The Boys (2019–2020), a role she reprised in the animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical (2022) and the spin-off series Gen V (2023). She also leads the Netflix dramedy series On the Verge (2021).
Although often cast as a girl-next-door type, in a career-defining role, Shue starred as a prostitute in the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage. The role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Shue was also nominated for a BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for Best Actress, and won Best Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, and National Society of Film Critics Awards.
Shue’s career flourished after her Oscar nomination, landing her diverse roles. She starred in The Trigger Effect in 1996. Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry (1996) showcased her comedic abilities among heavyweight co-stars Billy Crystal, Demi Moore, Robin Williams, and Stanley Tucci. Shue also displayed some action-movie skills in the 1997 spy remake The Saint opposite Val Kilmer. The thriller Palmetto (1998) afforded her the chance to play a film noir-ish femme fatale opposite Woody Harrelson; Shue co-starred in Cousin Bette (1998) with Jessica Lange, and Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man (2000) with Kevin Bacon proved another summer blockbuster.
Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O’Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. He loads a supply of alcohol into his BMW and gets drunk as he drives from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Once there, he develops a romantic relationship with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue) and the film shifts to include her narrative perspective. O’Brien died by suicide after signing away the film rights to the novel.
Leaving Las Vegas was filmed in super 16 mm instead of 35 mm film; while 16 mm was common for art house films at the time, 35 mm is most commonly used for mainstream film. After limited release in the United States on October 27th, 1995, Leaving Las Vegas was released nationwide on February 9th, 1996, receiving strong praise from critics and audiences with many praising the performances from Cage and Shue, the tone, the themes and Figgis’s direction and screenplay. Cage received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actor, while Shue was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also received nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director.
The featured “Leaving Las Vegas” 11 x 14 Photo has been signed by actress Elisabeth Shue who portrayed a prostitute named Sera who developed a relationship with the main character Ben Sanderson. (Nicholas Cage) The Photo includes an official Beckett Authentication Services serially-numbered hologram and matching COA for authenticity purposes. The signing of this item was witnessed by Beckett.
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