Alicia Silverstone

Cast in "Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker" based on Stormbreaker, the first novel in the Alex Rider series

Appeared in the comedy "Beauty Shop" opposite Queen Latifah

Starred in the Darren Star series "Miss Match"; received a golden globe nomination for best actress in a musical or comedy (2003)

Appeared in crime comedy "Scorched" with Woody Harrelson; screened at Cannes

Made Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the stage adaptation of "The Graduate"

Executive produced and voiced the character of Sharon Spitz in the Fox Family Channel animated series "Braceface"

Undertook first Shakespearean screen role, the Princess of France, in "Love's Labour's Lost", Kenneth Branagh's musical reworking of the Bard's comedy

Co-starred opposite Brendan Fraser in "Blast From the Past"

First offering from French Kiss Productions, "Excess Baggage", fizzled at box office

Played Batgirl in Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin"

Attended Shakespeare & Company, a month-long classics "boot camp" at Edith Wharton's home, the Mount, in the Massachusetts' Berkshires

Signed a deal worth between $7 and 10 million to produce and star in two movies for Columbia Pictures; also snared a three-year non-exclusive "first-look" pact with the studio for her production company, First Kiss Productions

Starred as Cher in "Clueless", Amy Heckerling's updated version of Jane Austin's "Emma"

Started her production company, First Kiss Productions

Appeared in three videos of the rock band Aerosmith ("Cryin'", "Amazing" and "Crazy")

Feature acting debut, "The Crush"

Legally emancipated from her parents at age 15 (date approximate)

TV-movie debut, "Judith Krantz's Torch Song" (ABC)

TV acting debut, guest shot on ABC's "The Wonder Years"

Attended her first acting workshop at 13 (date approximate)

Bat mitzvahed at age 13 (date approximate)

Began modeling at the age of 8 (date approximate)

Saw her first plays in London at age three with her father and older brother (date approximate)

Her father found her a print agent

Played a suicidal lesbian coke addict in L.A. stage production of "Carol's Eve'"

Raised in Hillsborough, California, an affluent suburb of San Francisco; spent summers in England

Studied ballet as a child

TV commercial debut, an ad for Domino's Pizza

Won fourth-place prize at a county fair for performing a routine to the theme song from "Flashdance"