Catherine Keener
| Catherine Keener | |
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.jpg) Keener at Berlin Film Festival 2010 |
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| Born | Catherine Ann Keener March 23, 1959 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Spouse | Dermot Mulroney (1990–2007) |
Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959)[1] is an American actress. She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005). She also appeared in the critically acclaimed Into the Wild.
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[edit] Early life
Keener was born in Miami, Florida, the third of five children of Evelyn and Jim Keener, a manager of an automotive store.[2] She is of Irish descent on her father's side and of Lebanese descent on her mother's.[2][3] Keener was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools.[4][5] Her sister Elizabeth Keener is also an actress.
Keener attended Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts, where she lived with an aunt in order to save on room and board, feeling out of place among her more privileged peers.[citation needed] Keener majored in English and history, enrolling in a theater course only when she was unable to get into a photography class.[citation needed] Her first theatrical production was the Wendy Wasserstein play, Uncommon Women and Others, during her Junior year at Wheaton.[citation needed]
[edit] Career
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Keener had a supporting role as Lt. Cricket Sideris in the television series, "Ohara," about an Asian detective. The series ran from January, 1987 to May, 1988.
Keener's first film appearance was one line in About Last Night... (1986). Although she struggled professionally over the next few years one low-quality project had an unexpected dividend. Keener met her future husband, actor Dermot Mulroney in 1987 while working on Survival Quest (1989), after Mulroney became stuck while attempting to scale a cliff.
She also guest-starred as an artist on an episode of Seinfeld called "The Letter". She played Jerry's girlfriend, an artist who painted the infamous portrait of Kramer. Keener then earned her first starring role in Johnny Suede with the then unknown Brad Pitt. Her performance gained critical acclaim and earned her her first Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She went on to work with director Tom Dicillo, again, in Living in Oblivion (1995). Two years later she was once again nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Walking and Talking, an independent cult-comedy film directed by Nicole Holofcener.
In 2000, Keener earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze.[6] In 2001, she worked with director Nicole Holofcener in Lovely and Amazing garnering her a third Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2002, she co-starred with Edward Norton in the off-Broadway revival of Burn This and the film Death to Smoochy. She also took part in the film Full Frontal, and S1m0ne alongside Al Pacino.
In 2005, she made a comeback starring in the political thriller The Interpreter, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, and was cast as the love interest of Steve Carell in Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Keener's performance as writer Harper Lee in Capote (also 2005) earned her several awards and nominations, including her second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.[6] In 2006, she starred in the film Friends with Money, directed by Nicole Holofcener.
In 2007, Keener played Jan Burres in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's best-selling book of the same name. In 2008, her film An American Crime, the true story of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged mother who tortured and killed Sylvia Likens in her Indiana home, was aired on Showtime. Keener plays Baniszewski and her portrayal earned her an Emmy nomination in the Best Actress in a TV Mini-Series or Movie category. In 2008, Keener portrayed Philip Seymour Hoffman's wife Adele in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. Keener played the title character's mother in the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, based on the series of books by Rick Riordan.
[edit] Personal life
Keener married actor Dermot Mulroney in 1990. She has a son.[6] In June 2007, Mulroney filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[7] The divorce became final on December 19, 2007.[citation needed]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] References
- ^ Birth Database
- ^ a b Being Catherine Keener 14 April 2006, Entertainment Weekly
- ^ Whitty, Stephen (2010-05-09). "Two-time Oscar nominee Catherine Keener has earned a reputation for mastering complex roles". The Star-Ledger. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/movies/index.ssf/2010/05/two-time_oscar_nominee_catherine_keener_has_earned_a_reputation_for_mastering_complex_roles.html. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "'Catherine Keener'". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800012212/bio. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ "'Catherine Keener: America’s muse captures British director of Genova'". The Times. 2008-10-04. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/london_film_festival/article4866736.ece. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
- ^ a b c "Being Catherine Keener" August 27, 2006, New York Times
- ^ "Dermot Mulroney Files for Divorce from Catherine Keener". People.com. June 11, 2007. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20042149,00.html.
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