Anecdotes

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 Retour vers le futur (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.

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

She was amongst the final candidates for the female lead in Un monde pour nous (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.

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 Le Nombre 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.

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

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

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. (décembre 2002)

Auditioned for the Sherilyn Fenn role in Des souris et des hommes (1992).

She was considered to play Kim Boggs in Edward aux mains d'argent (1990), before the part went to Winona Ryder.

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

Sister-in-law of Amy Robach.

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