伊丽莎白出生于匈牙利，60年代末全家移居美国。年轻时，伊丽莎白学习表演，并在实现成为电影女演员的梦想之前是邦妮凯经纪公司代理的模特。她在几部 A 级电影（如伍迪·艾伦的《泽利格》和亚瑟·希勒的《孤独的家伙》）中扮演了小角色，然后毕业成为 B 级电影的主角。她的第一个顶级角色是偶然的，当时她路过一个选角经纪人的办公室，被发现，然后被聘为《超越无限的奴隶女孩》（1987）中的主角。在 80 年代到 90 年代初，她出演了多部恐怖电影（她是《平安夜，致命之夜》第二部分和《十三号星期五，第七部分：新血》中杰森的受害者）为她赢得了尖叫女王的声誉，尽管她的喜剧天赋也在许多电影中得到了很好的利用， 包括在视频中扮演一个活泼但不太聪明的女孩，以及有线电视最喜欢的杀手宾博斯突击 （1988）。

Born in Hungary, Elizabeth's family relocated to the U.S. in the late 60s. As a young adult, Elizabeth studied acting and was a model represented by the Bonnie Kay Agency prior to making her dream of becoming a film actress a reality. She landed small roles in a few A pictures (like Woody Allen's Zelig and Arthur Hiller's The Lonely Guy) before graduating to leads in B films. Her first top-billed role came by chance when she was passing a casting agent's office, was spotted and then hired to play the lead role in Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987). Appearances in numerous horror films in the 80s into the early 90s (she was victim to both the Santa Claus killer in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II and Jason in Friday the 13th, Part VII: The New Blood) earned her the reputation as being a Scream Queen, though her comedic talents were also put to good use in numerous films, including playing a bubbly but none-too-bright go-go girl in the video and cable favorite Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988).