Trivia

Graduated from Harvard University 8 June 2000 with a degree in Government. Shue was one semester short of earning her degree when she dropped out to pursue her career 15 years earlier. She had returned to Harvard in the spring of 2000.

Elisabeth replaced Claudia Wells as Jennifer Parker, Michael J. Fox' girlfriend, in the two sequels to Back to the Future (1985). Claudia's mother was dying from cancer, requiring the re-casting.

Named her son after her late older brother, William Shue, who died on August 24, 1988 at the age of 26 from a freak swing accident while on family vacation. A rope broke on a tire swing and he was thrown into a tree branch, impaling him. He was enrolled at Rutgers University's Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine at the time of his death. Her brother Andrew Shue witnessed the accident.

The 2007 film Gracie (2007) is based upon events that occurred in her and her brother Andrew Shue's lives.

Was an accomplished high school gymnast, with aspirations to the state finals, at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Her brother, Andrew Shue, and Zach Braff also attended Columbia High School.

She was amongst the final candidates for the female lead in Say Anything (1989). According to director Cameron Crowe, "Elisabeth Shue did an amazing version of the graduation speech". Jennifer Connelly was runner-up to Ione Skye, who got the role in the end.

Majored in Government at Wellesley College; transferred to Harvard University in 1985; planned to become an attorney.

Got started in commercials as "The Burger King Girl".

Growing up in Maplewood, New Jersey, Zach Braff lived around the corner from the Shues.

Was cast as the female lead in the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23 (2007) but had to drop out just weeks before shooting because of her pregnancy. Shue was replaced by Virginia Madsen.

Elisabeth and Davis became the parents of their third child, a daughter named Agnes Charles Guggenheim, on July 2, 2006.

Daughter-in-law of Charles Guggenheim and Marion Guggenheim.

She and her brother, Andrew Shue, were inducted into Columbia High School's Hall of Fame in 1994.

She is of mostly German and English ancestry, with more distant Swiss-German, Scottish, and French Huguenot roots. She has considerable Colonial American ancestry from her maternal grandmother, with deep roots in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Mother, with husband Davis Guggenheim, of one son, Miles William Guggenheim, and two daughters, Stella Street Guggenheim and Agnes Charles Guggenheim.

Older sister of Andrew Shue.

Co-starring with Peter Sarsgaard in the Off-Broadway Revival of "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson. (December 2002)

Auditioned for the Sherilyn Fenn role in Of Mice and Men (1992).

She was considered to play Kim Boggs in Edward Scissorhands (1990), before the part went to Winona Ryder.

Sister-in-law of Amy Robach.

Daughter, Stella Street, was born weighing 6 lbs. 7 oz. (March 19, 2001)

Sister-in-law of Jonathan Guggenheim and Grace Guggenheim.