Catherine Keener
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Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is an American actress.
Keener, who is considered one of the best independent film actors, is known for her portrayals of disgruntled and melancholic yet sympathetic women in independent films, as well as supporting roles in studio films.
Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovich (1999) and Harper Lee in Capote (2005), she has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Keener appeared in the films The 40-Year Virgin (2006), Into the Wild (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), and Get Out (2017), which were all well-reced by critics.
Keener is Nicole Holofcener's muse, having appeared in each of Holofcener's first five films.
She appeared in all of director Tom DiCillo's first four films as well as three Spike Jonze films.
Early life and education
Keener was born in Miami, Florida, on March 26, 1959, the third of Evelyn (née Jamiel) and Jim Keener, a store manager of a mattress store in Hialeah, Florida, was the third of five children. She is of Irish descent on her father's side as well as Lebanese descent on her mother's side. Keener was born as a Catholic in Hialeah and attended Catholic schools. She attended Monsignor Edward Pace High School.
Elizabeth Keener, Keener's sister, is also an actor and a real estate agent for Sotheby's in Los Angeles.
Keener was a student at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She majored in American Studies while also enrolling in a theater class. During her junior year at Wheaton, Wendy Wasserstein's play Uncommon Women and Others was her first dramatic performance. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in 1983.
Personal life
In 1990, Keener married actor Dermot Mulroney. They have a son, Clyde, who was born in 1999 and is a singer. Mulroney applied for divorce in June 2007, citing irreconcilable inconsistencies as the cause. The divorce was final on December 19, 2007.
Career
Keener had a supporting role as Lt. Cricket Sideris in the television series Ohara. The series ran from January 1987 to May 1988.
Her first film appearance was one line in About Last Night... (1986). Although she struggled professionally over the next few years, one project had an unexpected dividend: Keener met her future husband, actor Dermot Mulroney, in 1987 while working on Survival Quest (1989), after Mulroney became stuck while attempting to scale a cliff.
She also guest-starred as an artist on an episode of Seinfeld called "The Letter". She played Jerry's girlfriend, an artist who painted a famous portrait of Kramer. Keener then earned her first starring role, in Johnny Suede, with the then-unknown Brad Pitt. Her performance gained critical acclaim and earned her first Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead. She went on to work with director Tom Dicillo again, in Living in Oblivion (1995). Two years later, she was once again nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Walking and Talking, an independent cult-comedy film directed by Nicole Holofcener.
In 2000, Keener earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze. In 2001, she worked with director Nicole Holofcener in Lovely and Amazing, garnering her a third Independent Spirit Award nomination. In 2002, she co-starred with Edward Norton in the off-Broadway revival of Burn This and the film Death to Smoochy. She also took part in the film Full Frontal, and Simone alongside Al Pacino.
In 2005, she starred in the political thriller The Interpreter (as a Secret Service agent partnered with Sean Penn's character) and The Ballad of Jack and Rose with Daniel Day-Lewis, and played the love interest of Steve Carell in Judd Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Keener's performance as writer Harper Lee in Capote (also 2005) earned her several awards and nominations, including her second Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 2006, she starred in the film Friends with Money, directed by Nicole Holofcener.
In 2007, Keener played Jan Burres in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's best-selling book of the same name. In 2008, her film An American Crime, the true story of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged mother who tortured and murdered Sylvia Likens in her Indiana home, was aired on Showtime. Keener played Baniszewski and her portrayal earned her an Emmy nomination in the Best Actress in a TV Mini-Series or Movie category. In 2008, Keener portrayed Philip Seymour Hoffman's wife Adele in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. She and Hoffman again played husband and wife in the 2012 film A Late Quartet. Keener played the title character's mother in the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, based on the series of books by Rick Riordan.
Keener starred in the six-episode HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin. It aired in August 2015. In 2016, Keener starred in the independent film Unless.
In 2017, Keener starred as Missy Armitage in the racially themed horror film Get Out, which was a critical and commercial success.
Keener starred in the 2021 Netflix horror drama miniseries Brand New Cherry Flavor.
In September 2022, it was announced that Keener had been cast in Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to the 2019 film Joker, slated for a October 4, 2024 release date.