<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> NBR Award for Best Cast 1996 The First Wives Club </Td> </Tr> <P> Elizabeth Berkley Lauren (born July 28, 1972) is an American actress and reality show personality . Berkley's most notable roles were as Jessie Spano in the television series Saved by the Bell, and as Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls . </P> <P> Berkley was born and raised in Farmington Hills, a community located among Detroit's northern suburbs in the affluent Oakland County, Michigan . She is the daughter of Jere, a gift basket business owner, and Fred Berkley, a lawyer . She has a older brother, Jason . Berkley's family is Jewish . She was raised in the Conservative tradition of Judaism, and at age 12 became Bat Mitzvahed . Berkley was born with heterochromia, the condition of differently colored irises; her right eye is half green and half brown, and her left eye is all green . She also has a mole on her forehead which she covers with camouflage makeup, citing it was a bother to her growing up, after name calling . She graduated in 1990 from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills after previously having attended the Cranbrook Kingswood School, a private school in Bloomfield Hills . </P>

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