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Daryl Hannah's childhood interest in movies grew out of a lifelong battle with insomnia. As a teen, she played soccer on the boys' team and studied ballet with Maria Tallchief.
When this Chicago, Illinois native first landed in Los Angeles to attend UCLA and take up drama studies with the legendary Stella Adler, she noticed that film producers were noticing her. A striking, tall blond, she says about the attention her looks brought her: "One thing they do well in L.A. is smell out fresh meat." After she attend the University of Southern California (USC) she made her film debut in the Brian De Palma film The Fury. As well known for her romantic dalliances as her leading roles -- she once dated musician Jackson Browne and John F. Kennedy Jr. -- Hannah?s breakthough role was as the painted semi-mute android in Ridley Scott?s Blade Runner. But the film that really put her over the top came two years later and featured her playing a fish out of water alongside Tom Hanks in Splash. More recently, she has come to see the top-grossing film as a bit of a curse. Says Hannah, "Whatever role the public becomes aware of you in, that's you, period. I'll always be seen as a non-verbal mermaid. My manager is constantly being told, "She's good for those ethereal kinds of parts.' As if that's all I'm capable of." "If you're in a movie like Splash that makes over $150 million, you can have five or six bombs before you have to kiss butt again. I've been at the butt-kissing stage for a while now." In 1994 she won the Jury Award from the Berlin International Film Festival for Best Short for a film titled The Last Supper, which she directed, wrote, and produced. |
