Elizabeth Perkins

Born: 18th November 1960
Where: Queens, New York, USA

The actress first attracted attention as the girlfriend of man-boy Tom Hanks in the comedy Big.

Other notable roles have included Wilma Flintstone in the big screen version of the prehistoric cartoon and the remake of Miracle on 34th Street.

A graduate of Chicago's Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, she moved to New York in the early 1980s and landed a role in the touring company of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs.

After appearing in the 1985 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Measure for Measure, she returned to Chicago for her feature debut About Last Night.

She played Demi Moore's wisecracking friend in the adaptation of David Mamet's 1972 play about the singles scene Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

Perkins then played gal pals to Judd Nelson in From the Hip and Jeff Daniels in Sweet Hearts Dance before breaking out as a business executive transformed by child-man Hanks in the hit 1988 comedy Big.

Subsequent appearances included Barry Levinson's Avalon and Randa Haines' drama The Doctor opposite William Hurt.

In 1994, she appeared in both The Flintstones and the remake of Miracle on 34th Street opposite Richard Attenborough.

After a prolonged spell of TV work she returned to features with a convincing portrayal as a committed AIDS activist in I'm Losing You.

She also had a role in the Antonio Banderas directed, Crazy In Alabama, which starred Melanie Griffith.

In 2000, she starred alongside Sandra Bullokc in 28 Days and went on to provide the voice for Coral in the animated adventure Finding Nemo in 2003.

Recent work includes the American remake of the Japanese horror-thriller Ring Two with Naomi Watts.