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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 notably
Blade Runner,
Splash,
Wall Street and
Roxanne. Hannah has recently had a number of notable roles including the
Kill Bill series.
Biography
Early life
Hannah was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Wexler, a producer, 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 has been a
vegetarian since age eleven. She grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah, as well as half-sister Tanya Wexler.
Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to
insomnia. She was very shy and diagnosed as "borderline
autistic". Hannah attended the private
Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the boys'
soccer team) and the Chicago Latin school before enrolling at the
University of Southern California.
Career
Hannah made her film debut in
1978 with a brief appearance in
Brian De Palma's horror film
The Fury. Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent
replicant, Pris, in
Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic
Blade Runner, in which she performed her own gymnastic stunts. She then was cast as a beautiful blonde
mermaid in
Ron Howard's
1984 fantasy,
Splash, which starred
Tom Hanks 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 and the
Academy Award-winning
Wall Street to the
1986 film version of the best-seller
The Clan of the Cave Bear. She starred in the title role of
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 also appeared in
The Pope of Greenwich Village with co-stars
Mickey Rourke and
Eric Roberts and played the daughter of
Jack Lemmon in both of the
Grumpy Old Men 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 and
Kill Bill Volume 2, directed by
Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in these films, as well as her appearances in
Northfork, Michael Radford's
Dancing at the Blue Iguana, John Sayles'
Casa de los Babys 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 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.
Awards
- 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
Personal life
Hannah and actress
Hilary Shepard Turner created two board games, "Love It Or Hate It" and "LIEbrary", with Hannah previewing the latter on
Ellen Degeneres' talk show in 2005.
Hannah, a keen
environmentalist, has her own weekly video blog called DH Love Life (
(External Link
)) on sustainable solutions. She is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog. Her home runs on
solar power and is built with green materials. She drives a car that runs on
biodiesel. In late 2006, she volunteered to act as a judge for Treehugger.com's "Convenient Truths" contest.
Hannah has never married. She had a long-term relationship with singer
Jackson Browne 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, "
You're a Friend of Mine"). She was with Browne from 1978 through 1992. The relationship ended with rumors being spread in the press of domestic violence that were later proven false
(External Link). After Browne, she'd a brief relationship with
John F. Kennedy, Jr. and was romantically linked with actor
Val Kilmer. She is the sister-in-law of music producer
Lou Adler, 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
Joan Baez and
Julia Butterfly Hill – 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 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.
Filmography
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