Elizabeth Berkley Biography

Fast Facts

• Founded a self-help group for women in 2006 called Ask Elizabeth and later published a book under the same title in 2011
• Married Ralph Lauren's nephew, Greg Lauren, in 2003
• Enrolled in dance classes at the age of five, she would begin training vigorously in a special dance studio her parents created for her in their basement
• Quote: "Not only am I grateful for my family, but there's a real love I have for growing up Jewish, and where I grew up, because there's a foundation that it's given me in these crazy kind of worlds that I might come across․"
• After landing a modeling contract with Elite Model Management in the 1980s, her television debut would come shortly after in 1987
• Anxious to make her feature film debut after the conclusion of "Saved By the Bell" in 1993, she would turn heads after accepting the lead role in Paul Verhoeven's scandalous "Showgirls", one of the widest released films to be given a NC-17 rating
• Producers of "Saved By the Bell" created her character after struggling to choose between her and Tiffani Thiessen for the role of Kelly