American actress Elisabeth Shue was first seen on a national basis as Jackie Sarnac, teenaged daughter of Air Force colonel Raynor Sarnac, on the 1984 TV series Call to Glory. She spent the next few years concentrating on "best girl" film roles: girlfriend to Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984), to Tom Cruise in Cocktail (1988), and to Michael J. Fox in the second and third Back to the Future flicks. She gave a marvelous interpretation of resourceful teenager Chris Parker in 1987's Adventures in Babysitting and was Sally Field's daughter-I-never-knew in Soapdish (1991). In 1996 Elisabeth Shue was nominated for an Academy Award for her starring role opposite Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas. Shue shone again playing Woody Allen's much-younger girl friend in Deconstructing Harry (1997). Shue is the sister of TV actor Andrew Shue, who plays Billy on the popular FOX series Melrose Place.