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Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3,
1960) is an American film actress. After making her
screen debut in 1978, Hannah starred in a number of
Hollywood films throughout the 1980s. She has recently
had several notable roles, including that of Elle Driver
in Kill Bill, after a hiatus from major roles during the
1990s.
Early life: Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois,
to Donald and Susan Hannah. 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 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.
Career: Hannah made her film debut in 1978,
making a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror
film The Fury. She subsequently appeared in several
early 1980s films, the most notable role of which is
probably as the replicant, Pris, in Ridley Scott's 1982
film, Blade Runner. Hannah was cast as a mermaid in Ron
Howard's 1984 fantasy, Splash, which was a major
financial success, grossing over $62 million and
establishing Hannah as a notable film actress.
Hannah's roles in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from
successful major roles in Steel Magnolias and the
Academy Award-winning Wall Street, to the 1986 film
version of The Clan of the Cave Bear, Hannah also played
the title role in Fred Schepisi's 1987 film Roxanne, a
modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de
Bergerac, a performance which was described as
"sweet" and "gentle" by film critic
Roger Ebert. She was also in the classic "The Pope
of Greenwich Village" with co-stars Micky Rourke
and Eric Roberts.
In the 1990s, Hannah's roles included starring as a
giantess in the television movie Attack of the 50 Foot
Woman (1993), which she also co-produced. 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 best-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, Casa de los Babys and Silver City, have been
described by some critics as a cinematic comeback for
Hannah, who had not appeared in many mainstream films in
the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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 Micheal Radford film "Dancing At The
Blue Iguana"
To promote her appearance in the film "Kill
Bill", Hannah posed nude in the November 2003
edition of Playboy Magazine. She later threatened to sue
the magazine because she objected to one particular
photo in the layout, claiming she had final say on all
shots to be used in the pictorial.
Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard co-created a boardgame
called "Liebrary". Hannah previewed the game
on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in December 2005.
Personal life: Hannah, a keen environmentalist,
has her own weekly video blog, 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, 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". In
addition to 'Liebrary' she also created the boardgame
'Love It or Hate It'.
Daryl Hannah has worked to help end the problem of
sexual slavery and is traveling around the world to make
a documentary about the problem. According to America's
Most Wanted, Hannah also works in Cambodia to free
children used as sex slaves. Hannah is currently
pregnant with her first child at the age of 46. |
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