Her luck changed, however, when director Mike Figgis, whose previous projects included the stylish downer Stormy Monday 1988 , was looking to cast his new project, the gritty Leaving Las Vegas.
She is of Italian father and English-Irish mother ancestry.
Owing to the occupational demands of her parents, Shue and her siblings found plenty of time to get into trouble in their suburban neighborhood, but Elisabeth soon enrolled in Wellesley College, an all-female institution which kept her out of trouble.