Daryl Hannah Biography

Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American film actress. She is best known for her performances in the films Blade Runner, Splash, Roxanne, Wall Street, Steel Magnolias, and Kill Bill.

Early life

Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Susan Jeanne (née Metzger), a producer and former schoolteacher, and Donald Christian Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner. Her parents divorced and her mother subsequently married Jerrold Wexler, a businessman and brother of Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer. She grew up with siblings Don and Page Hannah and half-sister Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Illinois.

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. She says she was very shy and may have Asperger syndrome. Hannah attended the progressive Francis W. Parker School (where she played on the soccer team) before enrolling at the University of Southern California. In 2013, she revealed in an interview with People magazine that she was diagnosed with autism as a child, and has learned to deal with the disorder over the years.

Career

Hannah made her film debut in 1978 with a brief appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury. She turned down many roles early on in her career, including the role of Emmeline Lestrange for The Blue Lagoon (that ultimately went to Brooke Shields). Her first notable role came as the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts. That same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers. She then was cast as a 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 1986's film version of the best seller The Clan of the Cave Bear and also in 1986 Legal Eagles and the Academy Award-winning Wall Street (for which she received her Razzie Award). 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 described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert, and ended the decade with Crimes and Misdemeanors (alongside Woody Allen) and Steel Magnolias (both 1989).

She also appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village with co-stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts and played the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men comedies. In 1995, Hannah was chosen by Empire magazine as #96 of the "100 Stars in Film History." That year she appeared as homicidal sociopath Leann Netherwood in The Tie That Binds. She also starred in the 1998 direct-to-video film Addams Family Reunion playing Morticia Addams.

Of her recent roles, the most memorable may be that of the one-eyed assassin, Elle Driver, in Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino. Her performance in this film and her appearances in Speedway Junky, 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. Hannah currently has several projects in post-production, including Shannon's Rainbow and A Closed Book.

In 2002, Hannah appeared in Robbie Williams' video for the song "Feel" portraying Williams' love interest.

Hannah also is an accomplished theatre actress, reprising Marilyn Monroe's starring role in The Seven Year Itch in 2000 at London's West End. Reviews of the play commended Hannah's performance, with Lizzie Loveridge of Curtain Up! saying that the play was the "perfect vehicle" for Hannah to "show her talents as a comedienne." She was also in films Cord and First Target in the same year.

Hannah feels she may have been blacklisted in Hollywood early in her career as a result of her Asperger syndrome leading her to not do film promotion.

Personal life

Hannah has had long-term relationships with singer Jackson Browne and John F. Kennedy, Jr.. Music producer Lou Adler is married to Hannah's sister, Page.

Hannah is a strict vegan.

Political activism

Hannah, an active environmentalist, 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 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. On December 4, 2008, Hannah joined Sea Shepherd's crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin, as part of Operation Musashi.

On June 13, 2006, Hannah was arrested, along with actor Taran Noah Smith, 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 against the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner, Ralph Horowitz. 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, Horowitz, 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.

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

In 2010 and in 2011, Hannah supported environmental activist Tom Weis' project Ride for Renewables to promote renewable energy.

On May 14, 2011, Hannah and actress Sheryl Lee attended the iMatter March in Denver, Colorado to raise awareness about climate change.

She was arrested on August 30, 2011 in front of The White House as part of a sit-in to protest against the proposed Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. In a Huffington Post piece co-authored with Phil Radford, Hannah explained that the purpose of her action was to "shine the light" on the President's decision on the pipeline for "millions of voters" to see. In October 2011, Hannah and other pipeline opponents rode horses and bicycles and walked from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to the Rosebud Reservation to protest the project.

In September 2012, Hannah signed environmental activist Tom Weis' open letter calling on President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to withdraw their support for the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, that would transport tar sands from Montana to Texas. Other signatories included climate scientist James Hansen and actors Sheryl Lee, Mariel Hemingway, and Ed Begley, Jr..

On October 4, 2012, Hannah was arrested and jailed in Wood County, Texas, for criminal trespassing. She and a local landowner, 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild, were arrested while protesting against the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline by attempting to block heavy construction equipment. Although they were charged with trespassing, they were in fact protesting on Fairchild's land.

On February 13, 2013, Hannah was arrested at the White House along with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Conor Kennedy during a climate change protest against the proposed Keystone Pipeline.

She is a member of the World Future Council.

Entrepreneur

Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner created two board games, Love It Or Hate It and LIEbrary, with Hannah previewing the latter on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2005.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	The Fury	Pam
1981	Hard Country	Loretta
1982	Blade Runner	Pris Stratton
	Summer Lovers	Cathy Featherstone
1983	The Final Terror	Windy
1984	Reckless	Tracey Prescott
	Splash	Madison	Saturn Award for Best Actress
	The Pope of Greenwich Village	Diane
1986	The Clan of the Cave Bear	Ayla
	Legal Eagles	Chelsea Deardon
1987	Roxanne	Roxanne Kowalski
	Wall Street	Darien Taylor	Earned a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress
1988	High Spirits	Mary Plunkett Brogan
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Lisa Crosley	uncredited
	Steel Magnolias	Annelle Dupuy Desoto
1990	Crazy People	Kathy
1991	At Play in the Fields of the Lord	Andy Huben
1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	Alice Monroe
1993	Grumpy Old Men	Melanie Gustafson
	Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman	Nancy Archer	TV film
1994	The Little Rascals	Miss June Crabtree
1995	The Tie That Binds	Leann Netherwood
	Grumpier Old Men	Melanie Gustafson
1996	Two Much	Liz Kerner
	The Last Days of Frankie the Fly	Margaret
1997	The Last Don	Athena Aquitane	TV Mini-Series
	Muppets Tonight	Herself	Guest star with her sister Page Hannah
1998	The Gingerbread Man	Lois Harlan
	The Real Blonde	Kelly
	Addams Family Reunion	Morticia Addams	direct-to-video
	Rear Window	Claudia Henderson	TV film
	The Last Don II	Athena Aquitane	TV Mini-Series
	Hi-Life	Maggie
	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Families	Maria Althoff	TV film
1999	My Favorite Martian	Lizzie
	Speedway Junky	Veronica
	Diplomatic Siege	Erica Long
2000	Cord	Anne White	direct-to-video
	Wildflowers	Sabine
	First Target	Alex McGregor	TV film
2001	Jackpot	Bobbi
	Dancing at the Blue Iguana	Angel
	Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story	Thespee	TV film
	Cowboy Up	Celia Jones	aka Ring of Fire
2002	A Walk to Remember	Cynthia Carter
	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself
	Hard Cash	Virginia
2003	Northfork	Flower Hercules
	The Job	CJ March
	Casa de los babys	Skipper
	The Big Empty	Stella
	Kill Bill, Volume 1	Elle Driver
2004	Kill Bill, Volume 2		MTV Movie Award for Best Fight (with Uma Thurman) Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress Nominated"?Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
	Silver City	Maddy Pilager
	Whore	Adriana
	Careful What You Wish For	Store Patron	short film
2006	Love Is the Drug	Sandra Brand
	Final Days of Planet Earth	Liz Quinlan	TV film
	Keeping Up with the Steins	Sacred Feather/Sandy
	Olè	Maggie Granger
2007	The Poet	Marlene Konig
	All the Good Ones are Married	Alex	TV film
2008	Vice	Salt
	Storm Seekers	Leah Kaplan	TV film
	Kung Fu Killer	Jane	TV film
	The Garden	Herself
	Shark Swarm	Brooke Wilder	TV film
	The Cycle	Carrie	aka The Devil's Ground
	Dark Honeymoon	Jan
2009	Shannon's Rainbow	Dr. Rita Baker
2010	A Closed Book	Jane Ryder	Bahamas Film Award for Best Actress
2011	Every Generation Needs a Revolution	Herself	short documentary
	A Fonder Heart	Margaret Boone
2012	Eldorado	The Stranger	3-D Film
2013	Garbage	Herself
	The Hot Flashes	Ginger Peabody

As Director

Year	Title	Notes
1994	The Last Supper	Also writer and co-producer Berlin International Film Festival For Best Short Film
2001	Strip Notes	Video Documentary

In the theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Seven Year Itch	The Girl	Made famous by Marilyn Monroe Helped Daryl Hannah overcome stage fright.

Awards

• Best Short"?The Berlin Film Festival "The Last Supper", 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