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'', ''Roxanne''. Her most recent notable film role was Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's ''Kill Bill'' films.

Early life

Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia. She says she was very shy and may have had 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.

Career

Hannah's successes in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from ''Steel Magnolias'' and the Academy Award-winning ''Wall Street'' (for which she received her Razzie Award) to the 1986 film version of the best-seller ''The Clan of the Cave Bear''. Also in 1986 Hannah co-starred with Robert Redford and Debra Winger in ''Legal Eagles''. 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.

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''.

Of her most 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''.

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

Daryl Hannah also is an accomplished theatre actress, reprising Marilyn Monroe's starring role in Seven Year Itch in 2000 at London's West End. Reviews of the play commended Daryl 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 the plays ''Cord'' and ''First Target'' in the same year.

Personal life

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. Hannah has never married, although she had long-term relationships with singer, Jackson Browne, and John F. Kennedy, Jr. She is the sister-in-law of music producer, Lou Adler, who is married to Hannah's sister, Page.

Hannah is a strict vegan.

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 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.

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.

She was arrested on August 30, 2011 in front of The White House as part of a sit-in to protest the proposed Keystone oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Filmography

As Director

In the theatre

Awards

References

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Category:1960 births Category:Actors from Illinois Category:American environmentalists Category:American film actors Category:American vegans Category:Living people Category:People from Chicago, Illinois

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