Elisabeth Shue | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 91% Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

Lowest Rated: 0% Behaving Badly (2014)

Birthday: Oct 6, 1963

Birthplace: Wilmington, Delaware, USA

All her life, Elisabeth Shue consistently proved she was able to do the impossible, playing on all boys' soccer teams while growing up, and enrolling at Harvard University. The actress made her mark playing lovable goody-goodies in films such as the iconic underdog favorite, "The Karate Kid" (1984), "Adventures in Babysitting" (1987) and "Back to the Future 2" (1989) - all of which pigeon-holed her in girl-next-door roles for years. Perhaps Shue's most impressive feat was bouncing back after most critics and audiences had written her off as a 1980s relic, when she took on a role that was unlike anything else she had played before - a prostitute who falls in love with a depressed alcoholic - in "Leaving Las Vegas" (1995). Giving the performance of her life, Shue proved she was more than a clean-cut beauty who had grown up on camera. She was a true onscreen chameleon who would never go out of style, as long as she was given roles with substance and grit.

Highest rated movies

91% Leaving Las Vegas 90% The Karate Kid 86% Mysterious Skin 84% Battle of the Sexes 81% Back to the Future Part III 78% Greyhound 75% Hope Springs 75% Twenty Bucks

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
50% 96% The Good Half Unknown (Character) - 2023
78% 76% Greyhound Evelyn (Character) - 2020
18% 70% Death Wish Lucy Kersey (Character) $34.0M 2018
84% 71% Battle of the Sexes Priscilla Riggs (Character) $12.6M 2017
0% 29% Behaving Badly Pamela Bender/Saint Poppy (Character) - 2014
33% 70% Chasing Mavericks Christy Moriarty (Character) $6.0M 2012
12% 41% House at the End of the Street Sarah (Character) $31.6M 2012
75% 55% Hope Springs Karen (Character) $63.5M 2012
56% 52% Janie Jones Mary Ann Jones (Character) - 2010
No Score Yet 43% Waking Madison Dr. Elizabeth Barnes (Character) - 2010
74% 45% Piranha Julie Forester (Character) $25.0M 2010
38% 23% Don McKay Sonny (Character) - 2009
62% 56% Hamlet 2 Self $4.9M 2008
62% 58% Gracie Lindsay Bowen (Character),
Producer
$3.0M 2007
No Score Yet 19% First Born Laura (Character) - 2007
64% 78% Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Lily (Character) $32.7M 2005
12% 50% Hide and Seek Elizabeth Young (Character) $51.1M 2005
86% 89% Mysterious Skin Mrs. McCormick (Character) $697.2K 2004
43% 64% Leo Mary Bloom (Character) - 2002
60% 70% Tuck Everlasting Narrator $19.2M 2002
No Score Yet 45% Amy and Isabelle Isabelle Goodrow (Character) - 2001
26% 28% Hollow Man Linda McKay (Character) $73.2M 2000
14% 52% Molly Molly McKay (Character) $17.4K 1999
41% 45% Cousin Bette Jenny Cadine (Character) $1.2M 1998
39% 31% Palmetto Mrs. Donnelly/Rhea Malroux (Character) $5.8M 1998
30% 63% The Saint Emma Russell (Character) $61.4M 1997
73% 82% Deconstructing Harry Fay (Character) $10.7M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Saint Unknown (Character) - 1997
73% 44% The Trigger Effect Annie Kay (Character) $3.6M 1996
91% 85% Leaving Las Vegas Sera (Character) $29.9M 1995
62% 39% The Underneath Susan Crenshaw (Character) $386.9K 1995
No Score Yet 38% Radio Inside Natalie (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 39% Blind Justice Caroline (Character) - 1994
58% 76% Heart and Souls Anne (Character) $16.4M 1993
75% 61% Twenty Bucks Emily Adams (Character) $30.7K 1993
74% 63% Soapdish Lori Craven/Angelique (Character) $33.9M 1991
10% 45% The Marrying Man Adele Horner (Character) $12.4M 1991
81% 78% Back to the Future Part III Jennifer Parker (Character) - 1990
63% 85% Back to the Future Part II Jennifer Parker/McFly (Character) $116.4M 1989
9% 58% Cocktail Jordan Mooney (Character) $77.3M 1988
72% 70% Adventures in Babysitting Chris Parker (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Switching Places Kathy Shelton (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 69% Double Switch Kathy Shelton (Character) - 1987
44% 32% Link Jane Chase (Character) $1.3M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call to Glory: J.F.K. Jackie Sarnac (Character) - 1985
90% 83% The Karate Kid Ali Mills (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Call to Glory Jackie Sarnac (Character) - 1984

TV

Credit
68% 69% Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber Bonnie Kalanick (Character) 2022
97% 72% The Boys Presents: Diabolical Madelyn Stillwell (Character) 2022
60% 80% On the Verge Anne (Character),
Executive Producer
2021
93% 76% The Boys Madelyn Stillwell (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chew Guest 2017
No Score Yet 80% CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Julie Finlay (Character) 2012-2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2012-2013
No Score Yet 91% American Dad! Female Detective (Guest Voice) 2012
92% 91% Curb Your Enthusiasm Virginia (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Constance Unknown (Character)
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