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Name: Joan Cusack
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Date of Birth:
October 11, 1962
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Place of Birth:
New York City, New York
Mini-bio:
Joan Cusack is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian.
She had her first major film role in 1980's My Bodyguard, at the age of 18. Cusack was a cast member of Saturday Nig...( read more)ht Live for one season in 1985. She received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for her role as Melanie Griffith's blue-collar best friend in Working Girl (1988) and as the jilted bride of a man who realizes that he is gay in In & Out (1997). To date, she and her brother John have appeared in eight movies together: Class (1983), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Sixteen Candles (1984), Broadcast News (1987), Say Anything (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), and High Fidelity (2000). She will next appear with him in Brand Hauser: Stuff Happens due for release in 2007.