1. Daryl Hannah made her film debut in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film The Fury.
44 Facts About Daryl Hannah
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Daryl Hannah has starred in various films across the years, including as Pris Stratton in Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller Blade Runner and as Cathy Featherstone in Randal Kleiser's romantic comedy Summer Lovers, as the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy-romantic comedy Splash, Roxanne Kowalski in the romantic comedy Roxanne, Darien Taylor in Oliver Stone's drama Wall Street, and Annelle Dupuy Desoto in the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias.
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In 2005, Hannah won a Saturn Award for her role as one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's martial arts action film Kill Bill: Vol.
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Daryl Hannah was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Susan Jeanne Metzger, a producer and former schoolteacher, and Donald Christian Daryl Hannah, a tugboat and barge company owner.
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Daryl Hannah's parents divorced, and her mother subsequently married businessman Jerrold Wexler, brother of cinematographer Haskell Wexler.
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Daryl Hannah grew up with siblings Don and Page Daryl Hannah and her maternal half-sister, Tanya Wexler, in Long Grove, Illinois.
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Daryl Hannah became interested in movies at a young age, partly due to insomnia.
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Daryl Hannah has said that she was very shy growing up.
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Daryl Hannah was diagnosed with autism, and medical professionals urged her parents to have her institutionalized and medicated.
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Daryl Hannah made her film debut at age 17 in 1978 with an appearance in Brian De Palma's horror film The Fury.
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Daryl Hannah had an early role along with Rachel Ward in the 1983 horror film The Final Terror.
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Daryl Hannah played the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley Scott's science fiction classic Blade Runner, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts.
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In 1985, Daryl Hannah appeared in and provided backing vocals in the music video "You're a Friend of Mine", performed by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne.
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Daryl Hannah appeared in the music video for Browne's "Tender Is the Night".
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Daryl Hannah appeared in the Academy Award winning Wall Street, for which she received a Razzie Award.
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Daryl Hannah starred in the title role of Fred Schepisi's film Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Daryl Hannah's performance was described as "sweet" and "gentle" by film critic Roger Ebert.
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Daryl Hannah starred in High Spirits opposite Peter O'Toole and ended the decade with Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Steel Magnolias featuring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts.
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Daryl Hannah played the daughter of Jack Lemmon's character in both of the Grumpy Old Men comedies.
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Daryl Hannah played Elle Driver, a one-eyed assassin, in Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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Daryl Hannah appeared in Shannon's Rainbow and The Cycle in 2009.
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Robert Koehler of Variety wrote of A Closed Book that it allows curious fans to see what Daryl Hannah has been up to lately.
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Also in 2018, Daryl Hannah released Paradox, for which she served as writer and producer; the film featured musician Neil Young.
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In 2020, Daryl Hannah starred in The Now, a comedy series for The Roku Channel opposite Dave Franco.
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In 2025, Daryl Hannah directed the 2025 documentary film Coastal, a behind the scenes look at Neil Young's Coastal concert tour.
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Daryl Hannah is an accomplished theater actress, reprising Marilyn Monroe's starring role in The Seven Year Itch in 2000 in London's West End.
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Daryl Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film titled The Last Supper.
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Daryl Hannah directed, produced, and was cinematographer for the documentary Strip Notes, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK and on HBO and documented the research Hannah did for her role as a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
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In 2002, Daryl Hannah appeared in Robbie Williams' video for the song "Feel" portraying Williams' love interest.
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Daryl Hannah is often the sound recordist, camera person and on-screen host for the blog.
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Daryl Hannah has been vegetarian since age 11, and later became vegan.
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On June 13,2006, Daryl Hannah was arrested, along with actor Taran Noah Smith, for her involvement with over 350 farmers, their families and supporters, confronting authorities trying to bulldoze the largest urban farm in the US, located in South Central Los Angeles.
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Daryl Hannah chained herself to a walnut tree at the South Central Farm for three weeks to protest against the farmers' eviction by the property's new owner, Ralph Horowitz.
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Daryl Hannah was interviewed via cell phone shortly before she was arrested, along with 44 other protesters, and said that she and the others are doing the "morally right thing".
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Daryl Hannah was among 31 people arrested on June 23,2009, in a protest against mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, part of a wider campaign to stop the practice in the region.
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Daryl Hannah was arrested on August 30,2011, in front of the White House as part of a sit-in to protest against the proposed Keystone oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast.
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Daryl Hannah was the executive producer of Greedy Lying Bastards, a 2012 documentary against climate change denial.
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In September 2012, Daryl Hannah signed environmental activist Tom Weis' open letter calling on President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney to withdraw their support for the construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, that would transport oil sands from Montana to Texas.
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On October 4,2012, Daryl Hannah was arrested and jailed in Wood County, Texas, for criminal trespassing.
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On February 13,2013, Hannah was arrested at the White House along with Robert F Kennedy Jr.
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Daryl Hannah endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president in the 2016 US presidential election.
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Daryl Hannah is a member of the World Future Council.
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Daryl Hannah began a relationship with musician Neil Young in 2014, and they married in 2018.
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Daryl Hannah later expressed belief that Weinstein sabotaged her career in retaliation for refusing his advances, as she struggled to find work after appearing in Kill Bill.