Joan Cusack Biography

Share |

<A class="APCAnchor" HREF="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?AID=246987&PSTID=5&LTID=16&lang=1">Buy Posters at AllPosters.com </A>

More Movie Posters

Birth Date: October 11, 1962

Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA

Joan Cusack most recently starred on screen in Garry Marshall's “Raising Helen” with Kate Hudson and appeared in the comedy “The Last Shot” with Alec Baldwin. Cusack has received two Academy Award nominations, one for her comic portrayal of a Staten Island secretary in “Working Girl” with Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith and one for her role as Kevin Kline's jilted bride in the critically acclaimed “In and Out.”

Her comic versatility has been displayed in her recent television series “What About Joan” for ABC. Among Cusack's other film credits are “School of Rock,” “Arlington Road,” “Cradle Will Rock,” “Runaway Bride,” “High Fidelity,” “Where the Heart Is,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “A Smile Like Yours,” “Broadcast News,” “Say Anything,” “Married to the Mob” and “Sixteen Candles,” among others.

The versatile actress made her screen debut in Tony Bill's “My Bodyguard.” She studied acting at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois, where she grew up. While at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she appeared with The Art, an improv group. Cusack's theatre work includes the premiere of “Cymbeline” at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York. She was Helena in “A Midsummer Night's Dream” at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and was directed by Joanne Akalitis in “Tis Pity She's a Whore.” She was a regular on “Saturday Night Live” during the show's 1985-86 season and appeared with Anne Bancroft in the BBC production of Paddy Chayefsky's “The Mother.”

Joan Cusack Filmography

Mars Needs Moms (2011) Mom

My Sister's Keeper (2009) Judge De Salvo

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) Jane Bloomwood

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) Miss Bond

Martian Child (2007) Liz

Friends with Money (2006) Franny

Chicken Little (2005) Voice of Abby Mallard

Ice Princess (2005) Joan Carlyle

Peep and the Big Wide World (2005)

Raising Helen (2004) Jenny Portman

The Last Shot (2004)