Classic Film Club

DARYL HANNAH

Daryl Hannah

Daryl Hannah (1982)
  • © The Blade Runner Partnership
  • (Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner, 1982)

Biography

BIO

Daryl Hannah was born Daryl Christine Hannah in Chicago, in 1960.   Her father was a tug boat and barge operator and her mother a school teacher.   Her mother remarried real estate magnate Jerrold Wexler when Hannah was 10 years old.   She was extremely shy as a child and suffered from insomnia.   Her younger sister is the actress Page Hannah (1964- ) and her half-sister is the film director Tanya Wexler (1970- ).

Hannah studied acting and ballet at the University of Southern California and made her feature film debut, at the age of 18, under the direction Brian De Palma in 1978.   She has appeared in more than 60 feature films.

Hannah has also produced several feature films and documentaries and is a staunch environmental activist focused on renewable energy and limiting man-made carbon emissions.

She married the musician Neil Young (1945- ) in 2018.


Other Pictures

Daryl Hannah (1987)
  • © 1987 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
  • (Daryl Hannah in Wall Street, 1987)

Films

NOTED FILMS

Blade Runner

Blade Runner
  • Blade Runner
  • 1982
  • Director Ridley Scott's apocalyptic vision of a futuristic Los Angeles where a detective seeks to destroy a group of escaped cyborgs.

Roxanne

Roxanne
  • Roxanne
  • 1987
  • A fire chief with an abnormally long nose secretly loves a beautiful astronomer, but she falls for one of his hunky, tongue-tied employees in this modern take on Cyrano de Bergerac.

Wall Street

Wall Street
  • Wall Street
  • 1987
  • A young stockbroker manages to strike a deal with one of his wall street investor idols and soon finds his world has changing significantly.

    Oliver Stone directs Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • 2003
  • Beat-up bride exacts murderous revenge on her assailants.   Quentin Tarantino directs.

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  • 2004
  • Our heroine has several more revenge killings to take care of.
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