Joan Cusack
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| Birth name | Joan Mary Cusack | |||||
| Born | October 11 1962 New York City, New York, United States | |||||
| Spouse(s) | Richard Burke (1993-) | |||||
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Joan Mary Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family.[1][2] Her mother, Nancy, is a former mathematics teacher and political activist. Her father, Dick Cusack (1925-2003), as well as her siblings Ann, Bill, Susie and John Cusack, have also been actors; her father was also a documentary filmmaker,[3] owned a film production company[4] and was a friend of activist Philip Berrigan.[5]
She is married to attorney Dick Burke, with whom she has two sons.
[edit] Career
Cusack was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Working Girl and In & Out. She starred with her brother John in the movies Sixteen Candles, The Martian Child, Class, High Fidelity, Grosse Pointe Blank, Cradle Will Rock and Say Anything....
Her recurring characters on Saturday Night Live include Salena, a socially inept girl who tries to ask out her boyfriend, Biff (played by Jon Lovitz), who is also socially inept.
[edit] Celebrity impersonations
[edit] Filmography
- Cutting Loose (1980)
- My Bodyguard (1980)
- Class (1983)
- Sixteen Candles (1984)
- Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
- The Allnighter (1987)
- Broadcast News (1987)
- Stars and Bars (1988)
- Married to the Mob (1988)
- Working Girl (1988)
- Say Anything... (1989)
- Men Don't Leave (1990)
- My Blue Heaven (1990)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
- Hero (1992)
- Toys (1992)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Corrina, Corrina (1994)
- Nine Months (1995)
- Two Much (1995)
- Mr. Wrong (1996)
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- A Smile Like Yours (1997)
- In & Out (1997)
- Arlington Road (1999)
- Cradle Will Rock (1999)
- Runaway Bride (1999)
- Toy Story 2 (1999) (voice)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Where the Heart Is (2000)
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
- School of Rock (2003)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
- Raising Helen (2004)
- The Last Shot (2004)
- Ice Princess (2005)
- Chicken Little (2005) (voice)
- Friends with Money (2006)
- Martian Child (2007)
- War, Inc. (2008)
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Joan Cusack at the Internet Movie Database
- Sac Ticket: Joan Cusackde:Joan Cusack
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Categories: 1962 births | Actors from Chicago | American film actors | American Roman Catholics | American television actors | Irish-Americans | Living people | New York actors | People from Chicago | People from Evanston, Illinois | People from New York City | University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni
