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Daryl Hannah
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
If this actress' range was as wide as her smile, she'd be one of today's top screen attractions; sadly, this is not the case, and the lithe, long-limbed Hannah continues to confound observers by delivering accomplished performances in some films and seeming like a rank amateur in others. Her first role was a bit part in Brian De Palma's The Fury (1978), filmed while she was still a high-school student. Theatrical studies at UCLA followed, as did eventual feature roles in The Final Terror (1981), Summer Lovers and Blade Runner (both 1982). As a statuesque "replicant" in the latter film, Hannah turned heads and had audiences scanning the end credits for her name. Her beauty, tempered by a palpable innocence, made her an ideal choice to play the mermaid who falls in love with Tom Hanks in Splash (1984), her first big hit and one of her most endearing portrayals. She was a coed pursued by a teenage rebel in Reckless Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in The Pope of Greenwich Village (both 1984), a prehistoric ingenue in The Clan of the Cave Bear a performance artist in Legal Eagles (both 1986), a jet-set interior designer in Wall Street (1987), a lovelorn ghost in High Spirits (1988), a fragile mental patient in Crazy People (1990), a missionary's wife in At Play in the Fields of the Lord and a befuddled love interest to Chevy Chase in Memoirs of an Invisible Man (both 1991). Her best opportunities since Splash have come in the title role of Roxanne (1987), in which she exuded intelligence as well as femininity, and Steel Magnolias (1989), in which she played a Southern hairdresser who gets religion. In 1993 she played Jack Lemmon's daughter in Grumpy Old Men and starred in a TV remake of Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman She also made headlines for her romance with John F. Kennedy, Jr. |  |
