July 28, 1972, Elizabeth Berkley was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan 🌸. By the late 1980s, she was a household name thanks to her role as Jessie Spano in Saved by the Bell, where she embodied the ambitious, straight‑A student who famously broke down in the “I’m so excited… I’m so scared!” caffeine‑pill episode — a rare moment when teen television tackled addiction and pressure. But her career took a sharp turn in 1995 with Showgirls. The film was marketed as bold, but critics tore it apart,