Elizabeth Berkley

Elizabeth Berkley: Biography in Details

Who is Elizabeth Berkely?

Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress, dancer as well as an author.

She is famous for her work in the friendly family American television show “Save By The Bell” on which she made an appearance as a feminist Jessie Spano. She also appeared as an exotic dancer Nomi Malone in Paul Verhoeven’s film ‘Showgirls.’

Elizabeth Berkley: Age, Parents, Ethnicity

Elizabeth Berkley was born on 28 July 1972 in a Jewish family in Michigan, USA. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is Ashkenazi Jewish.

By profession, her father Fred is a lawyer, and her mother Jere owns a gift basket business. She has an older brother Jason.

They grew up in the tradition of Judaism where at the age of 13 sons/daughters have to go through the tradition of Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Being fond of dancing her father admitted her to Detroit Dancing Company.

While she was studying in school at the age of 13, she was offered a contract as a model.

Education

Elizabeth Berkley received her formal education from Cranbrook Kingswood school which is a private school in Bloomfield Hills and later on, she graduated from North Farmington High School in 1990.

She got a degree in English Literature from UCLA and entered the United Talent Agency.

Elizabeth Berkely: Professional Life, Career

In 1987, Elizabeth made her first appearance in the television film ‘Frog’ playing the role of Kathy and in 1989 she auditioned for the role of Kelly Kapowski in ‘Saved By The Bells’ but landed the role of Jessie Spano.

She played the character, Jessie Spano, from 1998 to 1993, and by the time when she was done with it, she was already a well-known television personality.

After that, she auditioned for the Paul Verhoeven big-budget film ‘Showgirls’ and got a role as Nomi Malone. Her career started to blossom with the hard work and dedication of her acting.

Elizabeth had even hosted Bravo’s reality television dance show ‘Step it up and Dance’ which was a competition among 10 dancers and the one winner gets the cash prize of $100,000 along with the opportunity to work and perform with the country’s top choreographers.

She has done many movies and television series gaining her name, fame, and fan followers everywhere. She won National Board Review (NRB) award for best cast in the comedy movie based on a famous novel ‘The First Wives Club’ in 1996.

Elizabeth had found a group of young girls named Ask Elizabeth where they share discuss their problems and self-help each other in 2006.

Later in 2011, Elizabeth Berkley published a book entitled ‘Ask Elizabeth: A real answer to everything you secretly wanted to ask about love, friends, your body…. and general life’.

Elizabeth Berkely: Salary, Net Worth

Her net worth is $6 million according to the sources of 2022. She is living a luxurious life with her family.

Elizabeth Berkely: Trivia, Controversy

She is also an active animal rights activist. She is a strict vegetarian girl.

Elizabeth has set her life in a successful way having rumors neither about her career growth nor about her personal life.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

Moving towards her body measurements, she has a good height of 5 Feet 10 Inches with a bodyweight of 59kg.

She has a well-shaped body of 34-23-36. Her bra size is 34C. Her hair color is blonde.

She was born with heterochromia due to which her right eye is half green and half brown whereas her left eye is all green.

Social Media

Elizabeth Berkley is active on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. She has more than 337k followers on Instagram and more than 136.9k followers on Twitter. Further, she has around 10k followers on Facebook.

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