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Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah

Overview
Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film
Film
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....

 actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s notably Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick...

, Splash
Splash (film)
Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge...

, Wall Street
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone and features Michael Douglas as a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider and Charlie Sheen as a young stockbroker desperate to succeed....

and Roxanne
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin....

and in 2003-4 received acclaim for her role in the Kill Bill
Kill Bill
Kill Bill is a two part film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate 'volumes' due to its running time of approximately four hours...

series.

Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Wexler, a producer, and Don Hannah, a tugboat
Tugboat
A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that should not move themselves alone, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, or those that cannot move themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

 and barge
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...

 company owner.
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Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film
Film
Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....

 actress. After making her screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of Hollywood films throughout the 1980s notably Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick...

, Splash
Splash (film)
Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge...

, Wall Street
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone and features Michael Douglas as a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider and Charlie Sheen as a young stockbroker desperate to succeed....

and Roxanne
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin....

and in 2003-4 received acclaim for her role in the Kill Bill
Kill Bill
Kill Bill is a two part film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate 'volumes' due to its running time of approximately four hours...

series.

Early life


Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Wexler, a producer, and Don Hannah, a tugboat
Tugboat
A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that should not move themselves alone, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, or those that cannot move themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

 and barge
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...

 company owner. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother subsequently married Jerrold Wexler
Jerrold Wexler
Jerrold Wexler was a noted American businessman. He was the brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler and the stepfather of actress Daryl Hannah. Wexler was born in Chicago and attended Northwestern University....

, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler
Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, and a film producer and director...

, a cinematographer. She grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah, as well as half-sister Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Illinois.

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia
Insomnia
Insomnia is a symptom of any of several sleep disorders, characterized by persistent difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep despite the opportunity. Insomnia is a symptom, not a stand-alone diagnosis or a disease. By definition, insomnia is "difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep, or both"...

. She was very shy and diagnosed as "borderline autistic." Hannah attended the private Francis W. Parker School
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago)
Francis W. Parker School is an independent day school serving students from junior kindergarten through grade twelve of high school. Located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, the school is based on the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey and Colonel Francis Wayland Parker,...

 (where she played on the boys soccer team) and the Latin School of Chicago before enrolling at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA...

.

Career


Hannah made her film debut in 1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

 with a brief appearance in Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is an American film director. In a career spanning over forty years, he is probably best known for his suspense and thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.Throughout the 1970s...

's horror film The Fury
The Fury (film)
The Fury is a 1978 supernatural thriller film directed by Brian de Palma. The film was written by John Farris based on his novel of the same name. It starred Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving, Charles Durning and Andrew Stevens...

. She turned down many roles early on in her career, including the role of Emmeline Lestrange for The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 English language romance and adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, produced and directed by Randal Kleiser. The screenplay by Douglas Day Stewart was based on the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole...

(that ultimately went to Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Camille Shields is an American actress, author and model. Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That 70's Show, and Lipstick Jungle.-Early life:Shields was born in New York City into a well-known American...

). Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent replicant
Replicant
A replicant is a bioengineered or biorobotic being created in the film Blade Runner . The Nexus series—genetically designed by the Tyrell Corporation—are virtually identical to an adult human, but have superior strength, agility, and variable intelligence depending on the model...

 Pris in Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. His films include Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster and Body of Lies...

's 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick...

, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts. That same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers
Summer Lovers
Summer Lovers is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece...

. She then was cast as a beautiful blonde mermaid
Mermaid
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a human head and torso and the tail of an aquatic animal such as a fish.-Overview and etymology:...

 in Ron Howard's 1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 fantasy Splash
Splash (film)
Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge...

, which starred Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James...

 and was a major financial success, establishing Hannah as a high-profile film actress.

Hannah's successes in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 comedy-drama film about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The movie is based on a 1987 off-Broadway play by Robert Harling and on the author's experience with the death of his sister.- Synopsis :...

and the Academy Award
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is...

-winning Wall Street
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone and features Michael Douglas as a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider and Charlie Sheen as a young stockbroker desperate to succeed....

(the part for which she received her Razzie Award) to the 1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

 film version of the best-seller The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Clan of the Cave Bear (film)
The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1986 film based on the book of the same name by Jean M. Auel.Directed by Michael Chapman, the film stars Daryl Hannah as Ayla, a young Cro-Magnon woman who was separated from her family during an earthquake and found by a group of Neanderthals.Dialogue is conducted...

. She starred in the title role of Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi AO is an award-winning Australian film director and screenwriter. His credits include: Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, and Six Degrees of Separation....

's 1987 film Roxanne
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin....

, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand
Edmond Rostand
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...

's play Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, but the play bears very scant resemblance to the life of the actual person....

, a performance which was described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel...

.

She also appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 American film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her one-scene role in the film. It was adapted by screenwriter Vincent...

with co-stars Mickey Rourke
Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke, Jr. is an American actor and screenwriter who has appeared primarily as a leading man in action, drama, and thriller films....

 and Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts
Eric Anthony Roberts is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies , earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case...

 and played the daughter of Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger, The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen...

's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men (film)
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ossie Davis, and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the sequel,...

comedies. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History." That same year she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds.

Of her most recent roles, the most memorable may be that of the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill Volume 1
Kill Bill
Kill Bill is a two part film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate 'volumes' due to its running time of approximately four hours...

and Kill Bill Volume 2
Kill Bill
Kill Bill is a two part film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate 'volumes' due to its running time of approximately four hours...

, directed by Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence...

. Her performance in these films, as well as her appearances in Northfork
Northfork
Northfork is a 2003 film directed by Michael Polish and written by Michael and Mark Polish. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2003 and later received a limited release in the United States on July 11, 2003. The film stars James Woods, Nick Nolte, Daryl Hannah, and Peter...

, Michael Radford's Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an American drama film, released in 2000, directed by Michael Radford about the lives of strippers in an adult club...

, John Sayles' Casa de los Babys
Casa de los Babys
Casa de los Babys is a 2003 drama film written, directed, and edited by filmmaker John Sayles. It features an ensemble cast, including Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Daryl Hannah, among others.-Plot:...

and Silver City, have been described by some as a comeback.

Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film, "The Last Supper", which won an award at the Berlin Film Festival. She directed, produced and was cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes. It aired on Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television...

 in the UK and on HBO and was about the research Hannah did for her role as a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Hannah currently has several projects in post-production, including Shannon's Rainbow
Shannon's Rainbow
Shannon's Rainbow is a 2009 drama and family film both produced and directed by Frank E. Johnson. It stars Julianne Michelle and Claire Forlani, with a musical score by emmy winner Charles David Denler....

and A Closed Book
A Closed Book
A Closed Book is a short novel by Gilbert Adair, published in 2000.The book starts with a slightly awkward meeting between a crotchety blind author and a sighted interviewee he seeks to employ as his assistant....

.

Recently she appeared in Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams, better known as Robbie Williams is a BRIT Award-winning English British singer-songwriter. His career started in 1989, at the age of 15, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. He left the band in 1995 to launch his solo career...

' video for the song "Feel", portraying Williams' love interest.

Awards

  • Best Short - The Berlin Film Festival "The Last Supper", 1994
  • Best Fight - MTV Movie Awards Kill Bill Vol.2
    Kill Bill
    Kill Bill is a two part film by writer-director Quentin Tarantino, starring Uma Thurman as The Bride. Originally conceived as one film, it was released in two separate 'volumes' due to its running time of approximately four hours...

    , 2005
  • Best Supporting Actress - Saturn Award Kill Bill Vol. 2, 2004
  • Best Actress - Saturn Award Splash
    Splash (film)
    Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge...

    , 1984
  • Influencer Of The Year Award - National Biodiesel Board, 2004
  • Ongoing Commitment Award - Environmental Media Award, 2004
  • Environmental Activism - Water Quality Awards, 2006
  • Environmental Preservation - Artivist Awards, 2006

Personal life


Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner
Hilary Shepard Turner
Hilary Shepard Turner , alternately billed as Hilary Shepard or Hilary Shapiro, is an American actress.Shepard was born in New York City, New York. In the late 1980s, Shepard was a member of the short-lived all-girl group American Girls, where she was the lead singer and percussionist.When that...

 created two board games, "Love It Or Hate It" and "LIEbrary", with Hannah previewing the latter on Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth season.She has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a...

' talk show in 2005.
Hannah, a keen environmentalist
Environmentalist
An environmentalist supports any goal of the environmental movement, an information-based perspective on appropriate use of technology to prevent adverse effects on the environment...

, has her own weekly video blog called DHLoveLife on sustainable solutions. She is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog. Her home runs on solar power
Solar power
Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the Sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available...

 and is built with green materials. She drives a car that runs on biodiesel
Biodiesel
Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl esters. Biodiesel is typically made by chemically reacting lipids with an alcohol....

. In late 2006, she volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's "Convenient Truths" contest. On December 4, 2008, Hannah joined Sea Shepherd
Sea Shepherd
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit environmental organization based in Friday Harbor, Washington in the United States and in Melbourne, Australia for its Southern Hemisphere operations. Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine...

's crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin
MV Steve Irwin
MV Steve Irwin is a 59-meter ship owned by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The vessel was built in 1975 and formerly served as a Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency conservation enforcement patrol boat, the FPV Westra, for 28 years.Sea Shepherd had previously christened the vessel the MV...

, as part of Operation Musashi.

Hannah has never married. She had a long-term relationship with singer Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician. His political interest and personal angst have been central to his career, resulting in popular songs such as "Somebody's Baby", "These Days", "The Pretender" and "Running On Empty"...

 who had his roadies bring her backstage after a concert during her senior year at Parker -- (she is the female voice on Browne's 1985 hit song with Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons , affectionately known as The Big Man, is an American musician and actor. Since 1972 he has been a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the saxophone. He has also released several solo albums and in 1985 had a hit single with "You're a Friend of Mine", a...

, "You're a Friend of Mine
You're a Friend Of Mine
"You're a Friend of Mine" was a 1985 hit song, written by Narada Michael Walden and Jeffrey Cohen, with lead vocals by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne in a duet. At the time of the song's release, Clemons was already well known nationally as the saxaphonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band...

"). She was with Browne from 1982 through 1992. After Browne, she had a relationship with John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. , often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was an American journalist, lawyer, magazine publisher, and pilot. The son of U.S. President John F...

 and was romantically linked with actor Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer
Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun and a lead role...

. She is the sister-in-law of music producer Lou Adler
Lou Adler
Lou Adler is an American record producer, manager, and director.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in East Los Angeles, Adler grew up in a mixed Jewish/Mexican family. In 1964, Adler founded and co-owned Dunhill Records. He was President of the label as well as the chief record producer from...

, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page (who met Adler while Daryl was seeing Browne).

On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested, along with Taran Noah Smith
Taran Noah Smith
Taran Noah Smith is an American actor. He is most notably known for his portrayal of Marcus "Mark" Jason Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement.-Biography:...

, for her involvement with over 350 farmers, their families and supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the nation's largest urban farm in South Central Los Angeles. She chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm
South Central Farm
The South Central Farm, also known as the South Central Community Garden, was an urban farm and community garden located at East 41st and South Alameda Streets in an industrial area of South Los Angeles, California which was in operation between 1994 and 2006...

 for three weeks to protest the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner. The farm had been established in the wake of the 1992 LA riots to allow people in the city to grow food for themselves. However, the land's new owner, who had paid $5 million for it, sought to evict the farmers to build a warehouse. He had asked for $16 million to sell it but turned down the offer when the activists raised that amount. Hannah was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with 44 other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing". She spent some time in jail.

Hannah has also worked to help end sexual slavery and has been traveling around the world to make a documentary.

Daryl Hannah was among 31 people arrested on June 23, 2009 in a protest against mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, part of a wider campaign to stop the practice in the region. The protesters, who also included NASA climate scientist James Hansen, were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat in the middle of State Route 3 outside Massey Energy's Goals Coal preparation plant on Tuesday, the The Charleston Gazette reported. In a Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is a syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion aired by more than 700 radio and television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America...

 phone interview on June 24, 2009, Ms. Hannah spoke briefly on why she went to West Virginia and risked arrest.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

 
The Fury
The Fury (film)
The Fury is a 1978 supernatural thriller film directed by Brian de Palma. The film was written by John Farris based on his novel of the same name. It starred Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving, Charles Durning and Andrew Stevens...

Pam
1981
1981 in film
-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....

 
Hard Country
Hard Country (1981 film)
Hard Country is a 1981 dramatic movie starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kim Basinger, and co-starring country music star Tanya Tucker. It was directed by David Greene and is rated PG in the USA.-Main cast:*Jan-Michael Vincent ... Kyle...

Loretta
1982
1982 in film
-Events:*June 10 = Steven Spielberg's science fiction PG-rating film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, becomes one of the highest-grossing box-office success until Jurassic Park,...

 
Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick...

Pris Stratton
Summer Lovers
Summer Lovers
Summer Lovers is a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece...

Cathy Featherstone
1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:...

 
The Final Terror
The Final Terror
The Final Terror is a 1983 slasher film directed by Andrew Davis. The film ranks as one of the stronger "second tier" slashers from the halcyon heyday of 1980s slasher films. The film was shot in 1981 in the Red Wood forests of the California wilderness...

Windy
1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

 
Reckless
Reckless (1984 film)
Reckless is a 1984 love story shot in the Appalachian Mountains and Rust Belt of Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia and Mingo Junction, Ohio. Starring Daryl Hannah and Aidan Quinn. Directed by James Foley and written by Chris Columbus. Soundtrack by INXS, Romeo Void, Bob Seger and Thomas...

Tracey Prescott
Splash
Splash (film)
Splash is a 1984 fantasy film and romantic comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The original music score was composed by Lee Holdridge...

Madison Saturn Award for Best Actress
Saturn Award for Best Actress (Film)
The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Actress :...

The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Pope of Greenwich Village is a 1984 American film starring Mickey Rourke, Eric Roberts, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan and Burt Young. Page earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her one-scene role in the film. It was adapted by screenwriter Vincent...

Diane
1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

 
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Clan of the Cave Bear (film)
The Clan of the Cave Bear is a 1986 film based on the book of the same name by Jean M. Auel.Directed by Michael Chapman, the film stars Daryl Hannah as Ayla, a young Cro-Magnon woman who was separated from her family during an earthquake and found by a group of Neanderthals.Dialogue is conducted...

Ayla
Legal Eagles
Legal Eagles
Legal Eagles is a 1986 crime comedy-drama written and directed by Ivan Reitman, and starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah.-Plot details:...

Chelsea Deardon
1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.*May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers....

 
Roxanne
Roxanne (film)
Roxanne is a comedy film released in 1987, starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. It is a modern retelling of the verse play Cyrano de Bergerac, written in 1897 by French author Edmond Rostand. The screenplay was written by Martin....

Roxanne Kowalski
Wall Street
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film directed by Oliver Stone and features Michael Douglas as a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider and Charlie Sheen as a young stockbroker desperate to succeed....

Darien Taylor Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress
The Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress is an award presented at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards to the worst supporting actress of the previous year...

1988
1988 in film
-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...

 
High Spirits
High Spirits (film)
High Spirits is an 1988 comedy film directed by Neil Jordan.Set in a remote Irish castle, High Spirits is a topsy-turvy comedy with thematic leanings towards Ireland's rich folklore regarding ghosts and spirits, where the castle starts to come to life with the help of such denizens.-Plot:Peter...

Mary Plunkett Brogan
1989
1989 in film
-Events:* "Batman" is released on June 23, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crimes and Misdemeanors is a black comedy written, directed by and co-starring Woody Allen, alongside Martin Landau, Mia Farrow, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Orbach, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston and Joanna Gleason...

Lisa Crosley uncredited
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 comedy-drama film about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The movie is based on a 1987 off-Broadway play by Robert Harling and on the author's experience with the death of his sister.- Synopsis :...

Annelle Dupuy Desoto
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

 
Crazy People
Crazy People
Crazy People is a 1990 movie starring Dudley Moore as a burnt out advertising executive.-Plot:Dudley Moore stars as an advertising executive who has a mental breakdown and goes into a rampage of making truthful advertisements...

Kathy
1991
1991 in film
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York*Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for sci-fi action films.-Top grossing films :...

 
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
At Play in the Fields of the Lord is a drama film directed by Hector Babenco adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Jean-Claude Carrière...

Andy Huben
1992
1992 in film
The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films :source: - Awards :Academy Awards:*Article 99B...

 
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1992 film directed by John Carpenter and released by Warner Bros., with many scenes taking place in and around San Francisco. The film is based on a 1987 novel of the same name by H.F. Saint...

Alice Monroe
1993
1993 in film
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films. -Events:...

 
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men (film)
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ossie Davis, and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the sequel,...

Melanie
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Nancy Archer TV film
1994
1994 in film
The year 1994 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :*This was the Highest Grossing film of 1994 Worldwidesource: - Awards :Academy Awards:* Andre...

 
The Little Rascals Miss June Crabtree
1995
1995 in film
The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....

 
The Tie That Binds
The Tie That Binds (1995 film)
The Tie That Binds is a 1995 thriller film starring Vincent Spano, Moira Kelly, Keith Carradine, Daryl Hannah, and Julia Devin, and directed by Wesley Strick, who is better known as a screenwriter who wrote or helped write movies such as The Glass House , The Saint , Final Analysis , Cape Fear ,...

Leann Netherwood
Grumpier Old Men
Grumpier Old Men
Grumpier Old Men is a 1995 romantic comedy film, and a sequel to the 1993 film Grumpy Old Men. The film stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, and Sophia Loren, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ann Morgan Guilbert...

Melanie Gustafson
1996
1996 in film
The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.-Events:...

 
Two Much
Two Much
Two Much is a 1995 romantic comedy film directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah and Danny Aiello. It was produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures released it in the USA...

Liz Kerner
The Last Days of Frankie the Fly Margaret
1997
1997 in film
The year 1997 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Star Wars original trilogy's 20th Anniversary Special Editions are released.*Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace....

 
The Last Don
The Last Don
The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather.The story alternates between the movie industry and the Las Vegas casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to them both.-Plot:...

Athena Aquitane TV Mini-Series
1998
1998 in film
The year 1998 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

 
The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man (film)
The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, and Robert Duvall.-Plot:...

Lois Harlan
The Real Blonde
The Real Blonde
The Real Blonde is a 1997 movie directed and written by Tom DiCillo. It stars Matthew Modine, Catherine Keener, and Maxwell Caulfield. The film is a satire on New York's fashion and entertainment industries.-Plot:...

Kelly
Addams Family Reunion
Addams Family Reunion
Addams Family Reunion is the third movie of The Addams Family series, released straight-to-video in 1998. It was also distributed to television by Fox Family. There are no plans for a fourth film. So far, the film is only available on VHS and hasn't had a DVD release. It was shot in Los Angeles,...

Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams
Morticia A. Addams is the fictional matriarch of "The Addams Family", created by cartoonist Charles Addams.Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday and Pugsley. The character originated in the Charles Addams cartoons for The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s. In the cartoons,...

 
direct-to-video
Rear Window
Rear Window (1998 film)
Rear Window is a 1998 American television movie directed by Jeff Bleckner. The teleplay by Larry Gross and Eric Overmyer is an updated adaptation of the classic 1954 feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, which was based on a short story by Cornell Woolrich...

Claudia Henderson TV film
Hi-Life Maggie
1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...

 
My Favorite Martian
My Favorite Martian (film)
My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comedy feature starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by John L...

Lizzie
Speedway Junky
Speedway Junky
Speedway Junky is a 1999 film written and directed by Nickolas Perry. It stars Jesse Bradford, Jordan Brower, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Daryl Hannah. The movie received an R rating from the MPAA for violence, pervasive language, sexual content and drug use.-Cast:-Plot:The movie stars Jesse...

Veronica
Diplomatic Siege Erica Long
2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.-Top-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2000...

 
Cord
Cord (film)
Cord is a 2000 Thriller film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Bruce Greenwood, and Vincent Gallo.-Plot:...

Anne White direct-to-video
Wildflowers
Wildflowers (film)
Wildflowers is a 1999 drama film directed by Melissa Painter. It stars Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana and Eric Roberts. It features former American Poet Laureate Robert Hass reading some of his own poetry.-Plot:...

Sabine
First Target Alex McGregor TV film
2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. -Top-grossing films:...

 
Jackpot Bobbi
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
Dancing at the Blue Iguana is an American drama film, released in 2000, directed by Michael Radford about the lives of strippers in an adult club...

Angel
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story is a 2001 American television miniseries. It was directed by Brian Henson and was a co-production of CBS and Jim Henson Television. It is an alternative version of the classic English fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk. The story was considerably reworked...

Thespee TV film
Cowboy Up Celia Jones aka Ring of Fire
2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost...

 
A Walk to Remember Cynthia Carter
Searching for Debra Winger
Searching for Debra Winger
Searching for Debra Winger is a 2002 American documentary film conceived and directed by Rosanna Arquette. It presents a series of interviews with leading actresses who discuss the various pressures they face as women working in the film industry while trying to juggle their professional...

Herself
Hard Cash
Hard Cash
Hard Cash is an action and adventure film released in 2002.- Cast :* Christian Slater - as Thomas Taylor* Val Kilmer - as FBI Agent Mark C...

Virginia
2003
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

 
Northfork
Northfork
Northfork is a 2003 film directed by Michael Polish and written by Michael and Mark Polish. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2003 and later received a limited release in the United States on July 11, 2003. The film stars James Woods, Nick Nolte, Daryl Hannah, and Peter...

Flower Hercules
The Job CJ March
Casa de los babys
Casa de los Babys
Casa de los Babys is a 2003 drama film written, directed, and edited by filmmaker John Sayles. It features an ensemble cast, including Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Daryl Hannah, among others.-Plot:...

Skipper
The Big Empty
The Big Empty
The Big Empty is a 2003 science-fiction film directed and written by Steve Anderson. It stars Jon Favreau as a struggling actor with a bizarre request from his neighbor to deliver a suitcase that he can't open...

Stella
Kill Bill, Volume 1 Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake
California Mountain Snake
California Mountain Snake may refer to:*A shortened name for the California Mountain King Snake.*California Mountain Snake is also the codename of Daryl Hannah's character Elle Driver in the Kill Bill movies, directed by Quentin Tarantino....

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2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

 
Kill Bill, Volume 2 Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake
California Mountain Snake
California Mountain Snake may refer to:*A shortened name for the California Mountain King Snake.*California Mountain Snake is also the codename of Daryl Hannah's character Elle Driver in the Kill Bill movies, directed by Quentin Tarantino....

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Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress (Film)
The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Supporting Actress :...

 
Nominated - Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
- 1990s :Best Supporting Actress – Drama*1996: Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt**Joan Allen - The Crucible**Stockard Channing - Moll Flanders**Miranda Richardson - The Evening Star**Kate Winslet - Hamlet...

Silver City Maddy Pilager
Whore
Whore (2004 film)
Whore a.k.a. The Life is a 2004 film directed by María Lidón. It is based on the book Yo Puta by Isabel Pisano.-Main cast:*Daryl Hannah – Adriana*Denise Richards – Rebecca...

Adriana
Careful What You Wish For Store Patron short film
2006
2006 in film
The year 2006 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...

 
Love Is the Drug Sandra Brand
Final Days of Planet Earth
Final Days of Planet Earth
Final Days of Planet Earth is a 2006 Science Fiction miniseries directed by Robert Lieberman and written by Roger Soffer. Starring Campbell Scott, Gil Bellows, and Daryl Hannah, the movie was produced by RHI Entertainment for Hallmark Channel....

Liz Quinlan TV film
Keeping Up with the Steins
Keeping Up with the Steins
Keeping Up with the Steins is a 2006 comedy film directed by Scott Marshall, and starring Garry Marshall, Jeremy Piven, Jami Gertz and Daryl Hannah...

Sacred Feather/Sandy
Olè
OLE
OLE, Ole or Olé may refer to:* Object Linking and Embedding, a distributed object system and protocol developed by Microsoft * Object Locative Environment Coordinate System...

Maggie Granger
2007
2007 in film
The year 2007 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...

 
The Poet
The Poet (film)
The Poet is a Canadian drama film starring Colm Feore, Roy Scheider, Kim Coates and Daryl Hannah. It was written by Jack Crystal and directed by Damian Lee, with an estimated budget of CAD 11 million....

Marlene Konig
All the Good Ones are Married Alex TV film
2008
2008 in film
The year 2008 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...

 
Vice
Vice (film)
- Plot :40 kilos of heroin goes missing after a botched undercover transaction and the cops in the involved crime unit are getting killed off one at a time...

Salt
Storm Seekers Leah Kaplan TV film
Kung Fu Killer Jane TV film
The Garden
The Garden (2008 film)
The Garden is a 2008 documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy. It tells the story of the now demolished South Central Farm; a community garden and urban farm located in Los Angeles, California. The Garden details the plight of the farmers who organized and worked on the farm only to see...

Herself
Shark Swarm
Shark Swarm
Shark Swarm is a film created by RHI Entertainment as part of the Maneater film series. It premiered on the Sci Fi Channel on May 25, 2008. Directed by James A...

Brooke Wilder TV film
The Cycle Carrie aka The Devil's Ground
Dark Honeymoon
Dark Honeymoon
Dark Honeymoon is a 2008 thriller film, starring Lindy Booth, Nick Cornish, Tia Carrere, Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider and Eric Roberts. It was directed by David O'Malley and released direct-to-video on 22 July 2008.-Plot:...

Jan
2009
2009 in film
The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...

 
Shannon's Rainbow
Shannon's Rainbow
Shannon's Rainbow is a 2009 drama and family film both produced and directed by Frank E. Johnson. It stars Julianne Michelle and Claire Forlani, with a musical score by emmy winner Charles David Denler....

Dr. Rita Baker
A Closed Book Jane Ryder

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