Alicia Silverstone Biography
Alicia Silverstone is an American actress. She made her first film performance in The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
This gained her further fame as a teen idol when she appeared at the age of 16 in the music video for Aerosmith’s “Cryin'”.
She starred in the comedy hit Clueless (1995), which earned her a multimillion-dollar deal with Columbia Pictures, and in the big-budget film Batman & Robin (1997), playing Barbara/Batgirl.
In her role in the short-lived NBC series Miss Match (2003), Silverstone received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has resumed acting in film and television and on stage.
A vegan, Silverstone has endorsed PETA activities and has published a vegan cookbook, The Kind Diet.
How old Is Alicia Silverstone?
Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976, in San Francisco, California, U.S. She is currently 46 years old.
Parents
Silverstone is the daughter of British parents Deirdre “Didi”, a Scottish former Pan Am flight attendant, and Monty Silverstone, an English real estate agent.
Is Silverstone married
Silverstone met her husband Christopher Jarecki, who is a rock musician outside a movie theater in 1997. The couple dated for eight years before their marriage.
They got engaged about a year before their marriage where Jarecki presented her with a ring that had belonged to his grandmother.
On June 11, 2005, they married in a beachfront ceremony at Lake Tahoe.
Divorce|Christopher Jarecki
In February 2018, the couple separated, in May the same year Silverstone filed for divorce. The divorce was finalized in November 2018.On May 5, 2011, Silverstone gave birth to a boy
Alicia Silverstone Son
Silverstone has a son named Bear Blu Jarecki.
Alicia Silverstone Career
1990s, her first credited acting role was on The Wonder Years, starring Fred Savage, on January 8, 1992 episode “Road Test,” as Savage’s character’s high school “dream girl.”
Silverstone made her film debut when she had the leading role in the erotic thriller The Crush, playing a teenage girl who sets out to ruin an older man after he spurns her affections; she became legally emancipated at the age of 15 to work the hours required for the shooting schedule of the film.
She won two awards at the 1994 MTV Movie Awards for the role—Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Villain. Silverstone made some television series in her early career, including the Torch Song, Cool and the Crazy, and Scattered Dreams.
Aerosmith
After her appearance in The Crush, Marty Callner decided Silverstone would be perfect for a role in a music video he was directing for the band Aerosmith, called “Cryin'”; she was subsequently cast in two more videos, “Amazing” and “Crazy.”
These were highly successful for both the band and Silverstone, making her a household name (and also gaining her the nickname, “the Aerosmith chick”).
After seeing Silverstone in the three videos, filmmaker Amy Heckerling decided to cast her in the coming-of-age comedy Clueless, in the role of Cherilyn “Cher” Horowitz, a sweet but spoiled girl living in Beverly Hills.
Clueless became a hit and critical darling during the summer of 1995, and as a result, she signed a deal with Columbia-TriStar valued between $8 and $10 million.
Silverstone had other three films releases in 1995—Le Nouveau Monde, Hideaway and The Babysitter. The French drama about Americans Le Nouveau Monde saw her play the love interest of a French boy.
In the film adaptation of the novel by Dean Koontz, Hideaway, she took on the role of the daughter of a man who dies in a car accident and is revived two hours later, and the film The Babysitter was a B erotic thriller directed by Guy Ferland based on the eponymous short story by Robert Coover in his 1969 collection Pricksongs and Descants.
1996 – 1999
In 1996, she starred in the direct-to-video thriller True Crime as a Catholic school student searching for a murderer of teenage girls. Her next role was Barbara/Batgirl in Batman & Robin in 1997.
Budgeted at over US$125 million but the film grossed a modest $238,207,122 worldwide, and her turn as Batgirl received polarizing reviews from critics, who also considered the film to be one of the worst films of all time.
Silverstone later won a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress but received a Blimp Award at the Kid’s Choice Awards for the role.In 1997, the first movie by Silverstone’s production company, Excess Baggage, was released.
In the crime-comedy, she played the role of a neglected young woman who stages her own kidnapping to get her father’s attention, only to be actually kidnapped by a car thief.
The film only grossed US$14.5 million in North America, and received mediocre reviews from critics; Roger Ebert mentioned that she was “no better than OK” as he felt that she was miscast.
Silverstone starred as the female lead in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past (1999), directed by Hugh Wilson and co-starring with Brendan Fraser, Christopher Walken, and Sissy Spacek.
Critics towards the film were mixed, while it made a modest US$40 million worldwide.
2000 – 2006
Silverstone executive produced and provided the voice of Sharon Spitz, the lead part, in the Canadian animated television Braceface, from 2001 to 2003.
During this period, she played the bassist of a rock band in the independent comedy Global Heresy (2002), opposite Peter O’Toole and Joan Plowright, and made her Broadway debut with Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs in a stage version of The Graduate, which ran between 2002 and 2003 at the Plymouth Theatre.
She also starred as one of the disgruntled bank employees trying to rob the same bank in the small-scale comedy Scorched (2003), co-starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Woody Harrelson, and John Cleese.
Silverstone portrayed the close friend of a teenager turned secret agent in the action-spy film Stormbreaker (2006), directed by Geoffrey Sax and co-starred by Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, and Mickey Rourke.
Despite having a US$40 million budget, the film made US$23 million globally and was largely dismissed by critics.
USA Today described Silverstone as “simply ghastly” in her role, while View London remarked that there was “strong support” from the actress.
She obtained the role of a single mother returning to her hometown after a lengthy absence in the made-for-Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Candles on Bay Street, based on the book by Cathie Pelletier.
2007
Silverstone went on with her theatre work, and next appeared in David Mamet’s Boston Marriage (2007), a play exploring the relationship between two upper-class women, where the actress played what was described by Los Angeles Times as the “clueless and hyper-emotional Scottish maid” of one of them.
The production was presented at the Geffen Playhouse theater in Los Angeles, with various writing that Silverstone “steals the show [in her role].
Her Scottish accent is good, her comic delivery is fresh, and she gets the maximum laugh value from each wobbly curtsey. Her part is the one thing in the show that Mamet gets absolutely right, although she has used a bit repetitively.”
In the same year, she starred as a secretary in the theater production Speed-the-Plow, a satire on Hollywood executives and their monetary decisions.
The production, presented at Geffen Playhouse, which was directed by Randall Arney and starred by David Mamet.
The Hollywood Reporter concluded that the play was “fueled” by “a spectacular tour de force” from Silverstone.
2008 – 2009
In 2008, Silverstone filmed another unaired ABC pilot alongside Megan Mullally called Bad Mother’s Handbook and made a cameo appearance in the action-comedy Tropic Thunder.
In 2009, she starred in the music video for Rob Thomas’s single “Her Diamonds”, and acted in Donald Margulies’ production of Time Stands Still, set in Brooklyn and revolving around the relationships of two couples.
Like Silverstone’s previous few stage projects, it ran at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
In the late 2000s, she ventured into writing, releasing her book The Kind Diet, a guide to vegan nutrition, in 2009; she simultaneously launched its associated website The Kind Life. The Kind Diet topped the Hardcover Advice & Misc. category of the New York Times bestseller list.
2010
Silverstone continued to focus on theater and independent productions throughout the 2010s, but she acted considerably more than in 1990s and 2000s.
In 2010, she reprised her role in the Broadway production of Time Stands Still, alongside Laura Linney. It was directed by Daniel Sullivan, and described Silverstone as “a breath of fresh air” which had a general positive reception among critics.
The New York Times felt that Silverstone “brings warmth, actorly [sic] intelligence, and delicate humor.” She filmed a small segment in the independent comedy sequel Elektra Luxx (2010), but her part was not included in the final cut of the film.
2011 – 2012
She obtained the role of the teacher of a Manhattan private-school senior in the teen romance drama The Art of Getting By (2011), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2011, The ensemble comedy Butter saw her play the adoptive mother of a 12-year-old African American girl who enters a local butter sculpturing competition in a small Iowa town.
The film screened on the film festival circuit and was distributed for a limited release in certain parts of the United States only.
She then reunited with Clueless director Amy Heckerling in the independent film Vamps (2012), playing one of two vampires who fall in love and face a choice that could put an end to their immortality.
She was offered the role after Heckerling came to see her in Time Stands Still. Despite a very limited release, many found the film to be “a refreshing change of pace […] with an irresistible cast”.
She guest-starred in Childrens Hospital (2011) and obtained a four-episode role in season one of Suburgatory (2012), reuniting with her Clueless castmate Jeremy Sisto.
In 2012, She returned to Broadway in the production of The Performers, a comedic performance set at the Adult Film Award in Las Vegas.
The play premiered in November at the Longacre Theatre but was cancelled after 23 previews and seven regular performances due to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
2013 – 2014
In 2013, she filmed the television pilot HR, which was not picked up, and appeared in the Sundance comedy Ass Backwards, released for VOD and selected theaters.
In 2014, Silverstone took on the role of a self-absorbed mother in the rural environment in the coming-of-age drama Angels in Stardust, and her Kind Life follow-up book, The Kind Mama, was published.
2015 – 2017
Silverstone starred in the New York production of Of Good Stock, a play revolving around a group of siblings who gather at their family home for a summer weekend in 2015.
Entertainment Weekly remarked that she was “magnetic even as an engaged narcissist, ditzy” sister, however, The New York Times felt that her role was “the most cartoonish of the characters and a thankless part for [Silverstone], who tips into comic shrillness here”.
She appeared in the romantic comedy Who Gets the Dog? in 2016, opposite Ryan Kwanten portraying a divorcing couple fighting over custody of their beloved dog. The production went straight-to-DVD.
Her next film appearance was in the independent biographical drama King Cobra (2016), as the mother of gay film actor Brent Corrigan.
Silverstone played the love interest of an outsider artist having a bitter lifetime rivalry with a wealthy housewife in 2016’s Catfight.
The black comedy was released for VOD and selected theaters, to largely positive reviews. Silverstone starred in three films in 2017 — Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and The Tribes of Palos Verdes — and filmed the television series American Woman in July of the same year.
On her busy workload, she remarked: “[T]hey were all happening at the same time. Everybody worked together.
Yorgos [the Sacred Dee director]
Yorgos [the Sacred Dee director] helped us to push my date and Diary of a Wimpy Kid held the movie for a week or two for me”.
The comedy The Long Houl, the fourth film in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, saw her portray the clueless and loving mother of the titular character.
The film was panned by critics for the recasting of the main characters and its story development, and while The Long Haul made a modest US$40.1 million globally, it emerged as Silverstone’s most widely-seen film since Beauty Shop (2005).
In the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and co-starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, Silverstone took on the role of a widow and the mother of a mysterious boy who befriends his late father’s cardiac surgeon.
The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival and was an arthouse success. Casting director Francine Maisler choose Silverstone after seeing her star in a previous play; her two-scene appearance was filmed in one day, and she remarked of the filming: “[I]t was just so wonderful.
Living in Palos Verdes
When you admire something so much, it’s a little bit hard to imagine how you fit into it”. In the independent coming-of-age drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes, she reunited with her Butter co-star Jennifer Garner, playing a real-estate agent living in Palos Verdes, an affluent, coastal suburb of Los Angeles.
In 2018, she played a supporting role in the film Book Club. She also starred in American Woman, a series for Paramount Network, that premiered on June 8, 2018.
To promote the series, she appeared on an episode of Lip Sync Battle with co-star Mena Suvari. She will next appear in The Lodge, Judy Small and The Pleasure Of Your Presence, for which she was also an executive producer.
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Alicia Silverstone Book
In The Kind Diet, Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion.
Movies
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Year
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Title
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Role
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1993
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The Crush
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Darian/Adrian Forrester
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1995
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Le Nouveau monde
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Trudy Wadd
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1995
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Hideaway
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Regina Harrison
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1995
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Clueless
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Cher Horowitz
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1995
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The Babysitter
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Jennifer
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1996
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True Crime
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Mary Giordano
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1997
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Batman & Robin
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Barbara/Batgirl
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1997
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Excess Baggage
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Emily Hope
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1999
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Blast from the Past
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Eve Rustikoff
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2000
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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The Princess of France
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2002
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Global Heresy
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Natalie “Nat” Bevin
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2003
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Scorched
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Sheila Rio
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2004
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
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Heather Jasper Howe
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2005
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Beauty Shop
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Lynn
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2005
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Silence Becomes You
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Violet
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2006
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Stormbreaker
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Jack Starbright
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2008
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Tropic Thunder
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Herself
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2011
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The Art of Getting By
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Ms. Herman
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2011
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Butter
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Jill Emmet
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2012
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Vamps
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Goody
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2013
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Ass Backwards
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Laurel
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2013
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Gods Behaving Badly
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Kate
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2014
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Angels in Stardust
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Tammy
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2014
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Jungle Shuffle
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Sacha
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2015
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The Nutcracker Sweet
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Marie
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2016
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King Cobra
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Janette
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2016
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Space Dogs Adventure to the Moon
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Belka
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2016
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Catfight
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Lisa
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2016
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Who Gets the Dog?
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Olive Greene
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2017
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
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Susan Heffley
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2017
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
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Mrs. Lang
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2017
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The Tribes of Palos Verdes
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Ava
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2018
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Book Club
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Jill
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2019
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The Lodge
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2020
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Bad Therapy
Valley Girl
Sister of The Groom
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Susan Howard
Older Jullie Richman
Audrey
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2021
| Masters of the universe |
Queen Marlena(voice)
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Alicia Silverstone Tv Shows
| Year | Title | Role | |
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| 1992 | The Wonder Years | Jessica Thomas | |
| 1993 | Torch Song | Delphine | |
| 1993 | Scattered Dreams | Phyllis Messenger | |
| 1994 | Cool and the Crazy | Roslyn | |
| 1994 | Rebel Highway | Roslyn | |
| 1998 | Wildlife Vet[116] | Herself | |
| 2001–03 | Braceface | Sharon Spitz (Voice) | |
| 2003 | Miss Match | Kate Fox | |
| 2005 | Queen B | Beatrice “Bea” | |
| 2006 | Candles on Bay Street | Dee Dee Michaud | |
| 2006 | Pink Collar | Hayden Flynn | |
| 2007 | The Singles Table | Georgia | |
| 2008 | The Bad Mother’s Handbook | Karen | |
| 2011 | Childrens Hospital | Kelly | |
| 2012 | Suburgatory | Eden | |
| 2013 | HR | Ellen | |
| 2015 | Making a Scene with James Franco | Charlotte / Marcy D’Arcy / Janet | |
| 2017 | Jeff & Some Aliens | Alison (voice) | |
| 2018 | American Woman | Bonnie Nolan | |
| 2018 | Lip Sync Battle | Herself |