Elisabeth Shue Overview

Elisabeth Shue's career was going nowhere fast as she played the charming, comely, easy-on-the-eyes girlfriend role in a number of films, each more or less forgettable than the other. Then the mailman (or woman) intervened. "I've tried never to look at my career and say, 'Okay, what do I need to do to change my image?'," Shue says. "But I did feel a desperate need to play somebody more complex, and at a time when I was really unhappy and unsure of my career, the Leaving Las Vegas script just... See All