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| Birth Name(s) : Daryl Christine Hannah |
Date of Birth: December 3, 1960 |
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Android, Mermaid, Cave girl, Pretty Woman's friend, Giant... as a little girl, Daryl liked to fantasize-- little did she dream she would play all these roles in movies, and more!
Daryl Christine Hannah was born December 3rd, 1960. She graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre. Daryl practiced ballet with Maria Tallchief, and studied drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
In her twenties she played keyboard and sang backup for Jackson Browne. This tall (5'10") blond beauty, with the haunting blue-green eyes, was a natural for show biz.
She started with small roles, as in "The Fury," and in 1981 she landed the role of Kim Basinger's little sister in the movie "Hard Country." Daryl's breakout role was as the acrobatic, semi-mute android Pris in "Blade Runner" (1982); Pris was the vixen who wanted to live beyond her allotted years and risked the wrath of the title character. Showing her versatility, from there she portrayed a mermaid in the zany comedy "Splash" (1984), and a Cro-Magnon in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" (1986).
She was teamed with some big-name stars in the romantic comedy "Steel Magnolias" (with pre-"Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts). A giant achievement was starring in the 1993 remake of the 1958 classic "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" which Daryl also co-produced. And with almost a dozen projects for 1999-2000, Daryl's childhood dream of playing fantasy roles just keeps having a future that is brighter and brighter. |
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Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Susan, and Don Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother remarried Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a noted cinematographer. Hannah, a vegetarian since age eleven, grew up with siblings Don Hannah and Page Hannah, as well as half sister Tanya Wexler. She attended school at Francis Parker and the Chicago Latin School in Chicago until 6th grade when she moved to Parker.
Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, due to insomnia. She was very shy and was diagnosed as 'borderline autistic'. Hannah attended the private Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the boys' soccer team) and the University of Southern California.
She also appeared as the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men films. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history". That same year, Hannah anticipated (by a decade) her Kill Bill role when she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds.
Of Hannah's most recent roles, the better-known may be that of the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in these films, as well as her appearances in other recent films, including Northfork, Micheal Radfords' Dancing at the Blue Iguana, John Sayles' Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been described as a cinematic 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 the cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes. The documentary, which aired on Channel 4 London and HBO, was about the research she did for her role in the Michael Radford film Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
Awards include:
- Best Short - The Berlin Film Festival, 1994
- Best Fight - MTV Movie Awards "Kill Bill Vol.2", 2005
- Best Supporting Actress - Saturn Award "Kill Bill Vol.2" 2004
- Best Actress - Saturn Award "Splash". 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
Hannah, a keen environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog called DH Love Life, on sustainable solutions. She often is the sound, camera person and on-screen host for the blog. Her home runs on solar power and is built with green materials. She also drives a car that runs on biodiesel. In late 2006, she also volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's "Convenient Truths" contest.
Hannah has never married, but she had long-term relationships with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and singer Jackson Browne (she is the female voice on Browne's 1985 hit song with Clarence Clemons, "You're a Friend of Mine"), and was romantically linked with actor Val Kilmer. She is the sister-in-law of well-known music producer Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page.
On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested – along with Joan Baez and Julia Butterfly Hill – for her involvement with over 350 farmers and their families and their 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 in south-central Los Angeles for three weeks in order 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 forty four other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing". She spent some time in jail.
Hannah was featured in a CNET article listing the "top 10 geek girls" where it was mentioned she was extremely shy during her youth and was even diagnosed as being "borderline autistic".
Hannah has also worked to help end the problem of sexual slavery and is traveling around the world to make a documentary about the problem. |
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| Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in. |
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