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Daryl Christine Hannah was born
December 3, 1960, in Chicago, Illinois. As a child, she was diagnosed as
borderline autistic because she was so shy. According to her sister,
actress Page Hannah, Daryl was a "very private, rather dreamy person with
a "Please Knock" sign on the door and parakeets and hamsters running loose
inside." Daryl has suffered from insomnia since a very early age, which
encouraged her to escape into the world of movies as a young girl.
Her parents divorced when she was in the first grade, but eventually they
remarried. Daryl is one of eight children (including half-siblings and
step-siblings), seven girls and one boy, Don. Her uncle, Haskell Wexler,
was a filmmaker who won two Oscars for his work as a cinematographer.
In high school, Daryl played soccer on the boys' team because there was no
soccer team for girls. Before deciding to pursue acting, she practiced
ballet with Maria Tallchief. She then switched to drama, studying at
Chicago's Goodman Theater.
Hannah made her screen debut in the 1978 Brian De Palma thriller The Fury,
when she was just 17. It was only a small part, but it gave her the
incentive to further her dramatic training. She studied with Stella Adler
and graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Following her graduation, she played Kim Basinger's younger sister in
1981's Hard Country. In 1982, she co-starred in Summer Lovers, but it was
another film from the same year that made audiences sit up and take notice
of the young actress. She was then cast as Pris, the seductive,
pleasure-model "replicant" in Ridley Scott's futuristic detective story
Blade Runner.
Also in 1982, Daryl began a ten-year, on-again, off-again relationship
with singer/songwriter Jackson Browne. During this period, she
occasionally played keyboards and sang backup with his band in the studio
and on stage.
If people took notice of her for her supporting role as Pris, then it's
fair to say that her next role made her a star. Appearing opposite Tom
Hanks in Ron Howard's 1984 romantic comedy Splash, Hannah demonstrated her
versatility and comedic flair as Madison the mermaid.
Appearances in some more films that year solidified her status as a rising
new talent: She played a student who gets involved with a motorcycle
riding loner in Reckless, and Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in The Pope of
Greenwich Village. Further pointing to her potential as a rising actress,
Hannah was selected as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John
Willis' Screen World.
Despite her sudden popularity and acclaim, Hannah's next few film
appearances didn't ignite audiences or critics alike. In 1986's The Clan
of the Cave Bear, she portrayed a Cro-Magnon cavegirl, but few people
actually saw the film. She followed this up by playing a performance
artist in the comedy Legal Eagles, co-starring Robert Redford, and then as
an interior designer in Oliver Stone's 1987's critically-acclaimed Wall
Street.
Many critics felt that her best performance since Splash came when she
portrayed the title role in the 1987 romantic comedy Roxanne, starring
Steve Martin in a contemporary retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. The
following year she was featured alongside acting legend Peter O'Toole in
High Spirits, where she played a lonely ghost.
Hannah was teamed with some big-name actresses in 1989's Steel Magnolias
and was highly praised for her portrayal of a Southern hairdresser. She
also worked with Woody Allen that same year, appearing in Crimes and
Misdemeanors.
1989 was also the year Daryl Hannah made headlines regarding her new love
interest. She began a serious relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr., whom
she dated on and off until 1994. The couple never wed, allegedly due to
Jacqueline Kennedy disapproval of her son marrying an actress.
Hannah next portrayed a fragile mental patient in the 1990 black comedy
Crazy People. In 1991's At Play in the Fields of the Lord, she played a
missionary's wife. She then returned to comedy, as Chevy Chase's mixed-up
love interest in 1992's Memoirs of an Invisible Man.
Daryl Hannah's next project was a giant achievement for the actress; she
co-produced and starred in the title role of the made-for-TV film Attack
of the 50 Ft. Woman in 1993. She also played Jack Lemmon's daughter in
Grumpy Old Men that same year.
The following year, she was honored at the Berlin International Film
Festival. Hannah wrote, produced and directed The Last Supper, and
received the Jury Award for Best Short. She revised her role as Jack
Lemmon's daughter in the sequel Grumpier Old Men and co-starred in the
drama The Ties That Bind, both in 1995.
Daryl Hannah played an adult film actress trying to break into legitimate
films in 1997's The Last Days of Frankie the Fly, co-starring Dennis
Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland. In Robert Altman's The Gingerbread Man, she
was given the opportunity to really act again, portraying a mentally
off-center housewife.
Hannah learned the art of the striptease for her role in 2000's Dancing at
the Blue Iguana. She demonstrated her pole-dancing skills on The Tonight
Show, but has not yet joined the growing list of Hollywood ladies who've
installed a stripping pole in their homes.
In the fall of 2000, Hannah conquered her lifelong fear of the live stage
when she starred in the London production of The Seven Year Itch. She
reprised Marilyn Monroe's part from the 1955 film of the same name,
receiving mixed reviews from critics.
Hannah recently portrayed asasin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's Kill
Bill and Kill Bill 2. |
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Love and Virtue (2008) ....
Fiordelisa
Dark Honeymoon (2007) .... Jan
Vice (2007) .... Salt
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
The Poet (2007) .... Marlene Konig
Olè (2006) .... Maggie Granger
Keeping Up with the Steins (2006) .... Sacred Feather/Sandy
Final Days of Planet Earth (2006) (TV) .... Liz Quinlan
Love Is the Drug (2006) .... Sandra Brand
Careful What You Wish For (2004) .... Store Patron
Silver City (2004) .... Maddy Pilager
Yo puta (2004) .... Adriana
... aka Whore (Philippines: English title) (Spain: promotional
title) (USA: cable TV title)
... aka I, Whore (literal English title)
... aka The Life (USA: DVD title)
... aka The Life: What's Your Pleasure? (USA)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) .... Elle Driver/California Mountain Snake
... aka Kill Bill (USA: closing credits title)
... aka Kill Bill 2 (USA: informal title)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) .... Elle Driver
... aka Kill Bill (USA: informal short title)
... aka Kill Bill 1 (USA: informal title)
... aka Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume One (USA: promotional
title)
Casa de los babys (2003) .... Skipper
The Job (2003/I) .... CJ March
The Big Empty (2003) .... Stella
Northfork (2003) .... Flower Hercules
"Frasier" (1 episode, 2002)
- Frasier Has Spokane (2002) TV Episode (voice)
Run for the Money (2002) .... Virginia
... aka Hard Cash (USA: video title)
A Walk to Remember (2002) .... Cynthia Carter
Bank (2002) .... American girlfriend
... aka Banka (Turkey: Turkish title)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001) (TV) .... Thespee,
Member Great Council of Mac Slec
Jackpot (2001) .... Bobbi
Cowboy Up (2001) .... Celia Jones
... aka Ring of Fire
First Target (2000) (TV) .... Alex McGregor
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) .... Angel
Cord (2000) .... Anne White
... aka Hide and Seek (UK: video title) (USA: video title)
... aka Jeu mortel (Canada: French title)
Diplomatic Siege (1999) .... Erica Long
Wildflowers (1999) .... Sabine
My Favorite Martian (1999) .... Lizzie
... aka My Favourite Martian (Australia)
Speedway Junky (1999) .... Veronica
Hi-Life (1998) .... Maggie
Rear Window (1998) (TV) .... Claudia Henderson
Addams Family Reunion (1998) (V) .... Morticia Addams
Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families (1998) (TV) .... Maria
Althoff (segment "We Are Circus")
The Gingerbread Man (1998) .... Lois Harlan
The Real Blonde (1997) .... Kelly
"The Last Don" (1997) (mini) TV Series .... Athena Aquitane
... aka Mario Puzo's The Last Don
"Gun" .... Jill Johnson (1 episode, 1997)
... aka Robert Altman's Gun
- All the President's Women (1997) TV Episode .... Jill Johnson
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1997) .... Margaret
... aka Frankie the Fly (UK: video title)
Grumpier Old Men (1995) .... Melanie Gustafson
... aka Grumpy Old Men 2
Two Much (1995) .... Liz Kerner
... aka Loco de amor (Spain)
... aka Two Much (Spain)
The Tie That Binds (1995) .... Leann Netherwood
Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, Les (1995) .... Une actrice
muette à Hollywood
... aka A Hundred and One Nights
... aka A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema
... aka Cent et une nuits, Les (France: short title)
The Little Rascals (1994) .... Miss Crabtree
Grumpy Old Men (1993) .... Melanie
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1993) (TV) .... Nancy Archer
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) .... Alice Monroe
... aka Aventures d'un homme invisible, Les (France)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) .... Andy Huben
Crazy People (1990) .... Kathy Burgess
Steel Magnolias (1989) .... Annelle Dupuy Desoto
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) (uncredited) .... Lisa Crosley
High Spirits (1988) .... Mary Plunkett Brogan
Wall Street (1987) .... Darien Taylor
Roxanne (1987) .... Roxanne Kowalski
Legal Eagles (1986) .... Chelsea Deardon
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) .... Ayla
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) .... Diane
... aka Village Dreams (Europe: English title)
Splash (1984) .... Madison
Reckless (1984) .... Tracey Prescott
The Final Terror (1983) .... Windy
... aka Bump in the Night
... aka Campsite Massacre
... aka Carnivore (USA: TV title)
... aka The Forest Primeval
Summer Lovers (1982) .... Cathy Featherstone
Blade Runner (1982) .... Pris
Paper Dolls (1982) (TV) .... Taryn Blake
Hard Country (1981) .... Loretta
The Fury (1978) .... Pam |
