Shiri Appleby is an American actress, best known for playing the following main roles: Liz Parker in the youth science-fiction television project City of Aliens and Rachel Goldberg in the comedy-drama series Unreal. The actress also starred in the video for the most popular song of the rock band Bon Jovi - It's My Life.
early life
The actress was born on December 7, 1978 in the city of Los Angeles, California. The name Shiri in Hebrew translates as "my song." She is the daughter of a school teacher, Dina Appleby, who is Jewish from Moroccan Sephardi, and telecommunications director Jerry Appleby, of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Shiri has a younger brother, software engineer Evan Appleby.
The actress received secondary education at Kalabasas High School, in which she was the editor of the yearbook and cheerleader, she graduated from an educational institution in 1997. Then she entered the University of South Carolina, simultaneously paying attention to English literature and theatrical art. And in 2010 she entered the University of Phoenix, where the main subject was psychology.
Actress career
For the first time on television screens, Shiri Appleby appeared at the age of four, acting in commercials in order to overcome her excessive shyness. Her first ad was for Bran's raisins, but she never aired.
The debut series, in which the actress starred in 1984, was the soap opera Santa Barbara about the fascinating and hectic life of members of the wealthy Camwell family. Then, in 1987, work followed in the television projects Thirty with Something, The Bronx Zoo, and in 1989, the game in the series Doges Houser, starring young Neil Patrick Harris.
As a full-length movie actress, Shiri Appleby made her debut in the 1989 low-budget horror movie Curse 2: Bite, then starred in Laurence Casdan's black comedy I Love You to Death with stars like Kevin Kline and Keanu Reeves. Over the next four years, the actress clutched at any work and appeared in a variety of television projects. Time passed, and Appleby began to receive serious roles.
After graduation, a young girl starred in the family film "Seventh Heaven" with the young Jessica Beale, after the youth comedy "City Boys."
In 1999, with the start of filming in the series Roswell (Alien City), success finally came. Shiri became popular, recognizable, appeared in glossy magazines.
Very worthy films followed with Shiri Appleby:
- fantastic thriller "Thirteenth Floor",
- romantic comedy film "Another Sister",
- the dramatic painting "Time to Dance", where the years spent in ballet lessons came in handy,
- thriller directed by John Paulson “Fan”,
- German crime drama "Crazy",
- romantic comedy "What is love",
- horror with elements of the black comedy Deathly Hallows.
The actress now loves to go to auditions and auditions, and, being under pressure, get out of difficult situations and work impromptu.
Personal life
In 2010, she began dating chef John Shook, and in 2012, he proposed to her. March 23, 2013 the couple had a daughter, who was named Natalie Bouader Shuk. After birth, the young women got married. Shiri gave birth to a son named Owen Lee Shook, the second child, on December 16, 2015, at the age of 37.