![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: July 28, 1972 in Farmington Hills, MI Biography:A student of dance since she was four, rising Hollywood star "Elizabeth Berkely" has been in show business since the age of nine. She got her start in television appearing in over a dozen series, the best-known of which is "Saved By the Bell", in which she played proto-feminist high school student Jesse Spano from 1989 to 1991. Berkely made her feature film debut billed as Macrame Girl in the "Patrick Swayze"/"Keanu Reeves" vehicle "Point Break" (1991). In 1995, Berkely gained national notoriety and proved that she had come a long way since Jesse Spano when she played the trashy, determined, and frequently naked lead in the Joe Esterhaz-penned, "Paul Verhoeven"-directed "Showgirls" (1995), a glitzy exploitation film that, while one of the year's biggest stinkers, gained popularity on the midnight movie circuit, especially among drag queens. While such negative publicity as was received by "Showgirls"... Full Biography
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