After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

In 1999 Shue starred with Aaron Eckhart in Molly as an autistic young woman who undergoes an operation that allows her to become more "normal. Her younger brother Andrew is also an actor best known for his role as Billy Campbell in the Fox series Melrose Place. Her parents divorced when Elisabeth Shue was nine.

Elisabeth Judson Shue (born October 6 1963) is an American actress known for her roles in the films The Karate Kid Adventures in Babysitting Cocktail Back to the Future Parts II III The Saint and Leaving Las Vegas for which Elisabeth Shue won five acting awards and was nominated for an Oscar a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.