Daryl Hannah Biography:

Daryl Hannah stepped to the front of the line with movie-goers in her pleasing performance as a mermaid in Ron Howard's comedy hit, "Splash" with Tom Hanks (1984). Hannah's attractive features have been the foundation of her career - she was flawlessly cast in a supporting role as a stunning android in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" starring Harrison Ford (1982), a cyberpunk vision of the future, where a man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed life spans, and the cop who is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth   

Daryl Hannah also appeared in "Steel Magnolias" starring Julia Roberts (1989), a story revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, and a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. Next was "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" (1991) about small-town fundamentalist missionaries who are sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians.

 "The Clan of the Cave Bear" (1986), however, was one movie that failed all around. Next was ("Crazy People" 1990, about a bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, and finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients. Then she appeared in the John Carpenter comedy-drama "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" 1992) about an invisible yuppie, who after a freak accident, runs for his life from a treacherous CIA officials while trying to cope with his new invisible life..

Hannah branched out in 1994 when she directed, produced, and wrote a 12-minute short film, entitled "The Last Supper," featuring Cameron Diaz which won the Jury Award from the Berlin International Film Festival for Best Short. It was about a group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals who succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.

She also was hired and cast, starring in the drama "The Ties That Bind" with Keith Carradine in 1995 and then the comedy "Too Much" with Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas in 1996. Throughout the first half of the 1990's, Hannah was mainly in the spotlight for being John F. Kennedy's longtime girlfriend and romantic interest (they dated from 1989 to 1994). She emerged from his shadow as a classic sort of actress but was still mainly associated with her her "Splash" role.

Hannah took a variety of low-profile roles for the rest of the decade and appeared on stage in 2000 in the London production of "The Seven Year Itch." She received mixed reviews but continued to work in movie and film for the next several years. Hannah remained an mysterious actress, at times showing comic intellect and serious dramatic ability while still managing to get cast in dead-end roles, such as playing Mandy Moore's mother in the young teen film "A Walk to Remember" (2002), the story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan (Moore), who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is required to do community service. 

As she matured, Hannah showed an increasing comfort level with her still-perfect body, revealing much of it as a troubled exotic dancer Angel in "Dancing at the Blue Iguana" (2002), a film with gritty and serious overtones that still never quite shines beyond its high nudity, naked, and breasts factor. 

Nevertheless, she delivered a strong role in the Polish brother's entrancing "Northfork" (2003) as the majestic, empathetic hermaphrodite Flower Hercules, one of four angels who visit the dreams of the son of a religious zealot who stays behind in a 1950's era Montana town about to be obliterated by a new dam; she was also compelling in writer-director John Sayles' "Casa de Los Babys" (2003) as the sporty, ever-running Skipper, one of several American woman living briefly in Mexico while waiting to adopt babies, who is haunted by her three miscarriages.

She then stunned the world with a highly anticipated nude spread in Playboy magazine at age 43. While appearing naked in brief movie scenes, Hannah was not known for nude roles. She quickly became the internet darling, with millions of people searching for the Playboy nude pictures and a glimpse of the actress in full naked pin-ups. The search for her nude pictures became the internets top searched terms for weeks.

Hannah was cast in her most high profile role in ages, playing the iconic killer Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003), starring Uma Thurman and  Lucy Liu, about a bride who wakes up after a long coma and the baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. Then se graced "Silver City" (2004) with Richard Dreyfuss and Chris Cooper, about the discovery of a corpse that threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

Hannah ended 2004 with the short comedy "Careful What You Wish For", a classic tale of what goes around comes around, and then started 2006 off with a bang "Love Is The Drug" (2006), about a love triangle among recent high school graduates that proves deadly.  She then returned to television with the movie "Final Days Of Planet Earth", about an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race.

She was then seen in Scott Marshall's comedy "Keeping Up With The Steins", the story of a 13 year old boy who uses his upcoming bar mitzvah to reconcile the strained relationship between his father and grandfather. She then worked in "The Poet" (2007), where a Rabbi's daughter and a disenchanted German soldier fall in love and are separated by the war. They struggle on a perilous journey to find one another. Her last film of 2007 was "All The Good Ones Are Married" with Joanna Douglas.

In 2008 it was back to the gritty cop style movie with "Vice" (2008), and then the David O'Malley thriller-drama "Dark Honeymoon", where a man marries a seductive woman after a brief but intense relationship, but during their honeymoon on the Oregon coast he uncovers the terrible truth about his new wife. Hannah's last project in 2008 was the made-for-television film "Shark Swarm", about a fisherman and his family who fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.

• Also Credited As:
  Daryl Christine Hannah
• Born:
  on 12/03/1960 in Chicago, Illinois
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Family

• Brother: Don Hannah.
• Father: Don Hannah. Hannah's parents divorced when she was in first grade
• Half-sister: Tanya Wexler.
• Mother: Susan Wexler. co-producer with Oprah Winfrey of the off-Broadway play, "From the Mississippi Delta" (1991)
• Sister: Page Hannah. younger; married record producer Lou Adler (born c. 1933) on March 22, 1992
• Step-father: Jerry Wexler. Chicago real-estate magnate; chairman of Jupiter Industries; died in 1992
• Step-uncle: Haskell Wexler. made films including the landmark "Medium Cool" (1968), though perhaps best known for his Oscar-winning cinematography for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) and "Bound for Glory" (1976)

Significant Others

• Companion: David Blaine. dating as of July 2002
• Companion: Jackson Browne. had ten-year, on-again, off-again relationship from c. 1982 to 1992; Hannah accused him of breaking her finger and giving her a black eye
• Companion: John F Kennedy. dated on and off from 1989 to 1994; born in 1960; died in a plane crash on July 15. 1999
• Companion: Val Kilmer. began dating in 2001

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