Elizabeth is also a theater and film actress and she has some very notable roles in Saved by the bell, a televisionseries where she has a role of brainy Jessie Spano. She also starred in Showgirls in the year 1995 where she tales the role of Nomi Malone, an exotic dancer.

Early life

Berkley was born in Farmington Hills where she was also raised. This is a community that is situatedin the northern suburbsofDetroit in the county of Oakland Michigan. She is daughter to Jere who is a business owner dealing with gift baskets and a lawyerFred Berkley. She is from a Jewish family ad was raised in a very conservative Judaism tradition. At 13, she became bat mitzvahed.

She was bornwith a condition called heterochomia which is a condition where a person gas different iris colors. Her right eye is half brown ad half green while the left one is all green. She went to north Farmington high school where she graduated in the year 1990. Earlier, she had attended Cranbrook Kingswood school which is a private school situated in Bloomfield hills.

At a young age, she danced and also practicedwithin a room which her parents had arranged at the basement. In the year 1982 t only 10 years of age, she auditioned for a role in Annie but she wasn’t accepted. Her love for dancing developed and she wanted to pursue this as a profession. She travelled to New York so as to join other dancers for training and meet different choreographers. She took part in different ballets and this included the swan lake. In the year 1983 she made appearance in different musicals.

Her career

As a teenager, she modeled for elite and later ventured at pursuing a career in acting. Hertelevision film debut was in the year 1987 where she had a role in Frog, a television film. After this, she was able to make other guest appearances in differentshows on TV. At seventeen, she auditioned for Saved by the Bell for Kelly Kapowskui but producers couldn’t decide who should have the role. They decided to create her a character as Jessie soprano and she played the role till 1993.

She left saved the bell so as to try her hand in film. She got the Nomi Malone character in showgirls. This was a controversial film that had sex and nudity. This film was panned by critics widely. Today, Showgirls has a cult like status and ranks in the top 36. It is a film that has a very high grossing for MGM.

She had a role in first wives clubbefore the role she had in Armitahe III: Poly Matric where Kiefer Sutherland also starred. She is an animal rights activist and she actively participates in campaigns to support vegetarianism.