Line #30 Creator/DarylHannah


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3	->''"The famous Hollywood mermaid, half-woman half-kipper."''
4	-->-- ''[[Creator/MorecambeAndWise The Play What I Wrote]]''
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6	Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960 in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, Illinois) is an American actress.
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8	Her first major role was the Replicant Pris Stratton in ''Film/BladeRunner'' before being catapulted to stardom from her role as Madison in ''Film/{{Splash}}''. She was a popular leading lady through the rest of the 1980s and the early 1990s, having major roles in ''Legal Eagles'', ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'', ''Film/WallStreet'', ''Film/SteelMagnolias'', ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'' and the 1993 remake of ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman''.
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10	A 1992 incident in which she was found badly beaten, allegedly at the hands of then-boyfriend Music/JacksonBrowne, became a media circus in the tabloids, and her career went into a slump afterwards, though not nearly to the same extent that it hurt Browne's. She experienced a resurgence in the early 2000s, culminating in her appearance as Elle Driver in the Creator/QuentinTarantino classic ''Film/KillBill''.
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12	She retired from Hollywood shortly afterwards to devote her time to environmentalist activism, though she still acts occasionally, such as in the Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Series/Sense8''. She made her directorial debut in 2018 with the surrealist Western film ''Paradox'', which stars her husband Music/NeilYoung (they married that same year).
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14	Outside of acting, Hannah is a prominent activist for environmentalist causes. She has appeared in many high profile protests against construction projects (most notably the controversial Keystone XL pipeline), which has led to her being arrested and jailed multiple times.
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16	In 2013, Hannah [[https://childmind.org/blog/daryl-hannah-reveals-her-autism/ revealed]] that she is [[UsefulNotes/{{Autism}} autistic]]. She stated that she was diagnosed as a child and did her best to hide the condition during her career, and that it was the reason for her well-known reluctance to appear on talk shows and do promotional appearances for her films, conscious of her social awkwardness. The announcement [[{{Pun}} made a splash]], as the autistic community has long decried how autistic girls are consistently overlooked to the point that the condition is believed to primarily affect boys, expressing hope that Hannah's revelation could help change that. Like many autistics, she prefers to live close to the earth, "off the grid" as much as possible, and cherishes her rescued animal companions.
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18	She later came forward as a victim of Harvey Weinstein in 2017, revealing that he sexually harassed her repeatedly during the production of ''Kill Bill''. She later claimed that Weinstein tanked her career in retaliation for refusing his advances and implied that he played a part in her decision to retire.
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21	!!Filmography with pages on TV Tropes:
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23	* ''Film/TheFury'' (1978) as Pam - Daryl’s film debut
24	* ''Film/BladeRunner'' (1982) as Pris Stratton
25	* ''Film/TheFinalTerror'' (1983) as Windy Morgan
26	* ''Film/{{Splash}}'' (1984) as Madison - Daryl’s StarMakingRole
27	* ''Film/TheClanOfTheCaveBear'' (1986) as Ayla
28	* ''Film/{{Roxanne}}'' (1987) as Roxanne Kowalski
29	* ''Film/WallStreet'' (1987) as Darien Taylor
30	* ''Film/HighSpirits'' (1988) as Mary Plunkett Brogan
31	* ''Film/SteelMagnolias'' (1989) as Annelle Dupuy Desoto
32	* ''Film/CrazyPeople'' (1990) as Kathy Burgess
33	* ''Literature/AtPlayInTheFieldsOfTheLord'' (1991) as Andy Huben
34	* ''Literature/MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'' (TheFilmOfTheBook, 1992) as Alice Monroe
35	* ''Film/GrumpyOldMen'' (1993) Melanie Gustafson
36	** ''Film/GrumpierOldMen'' (1995)
37	* ''Film/AttackOfThe50FootWoman'' (remake made for cable, 1993) as Nancy Archer
38	* ''Film/TheRealBlonde'' (1997) as Kelly
39	* ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Reunion]]'' (1998) as Morticia Addams (replacing Creator/AnjelicaHuston)
40	* ''Film/TheGingerbreadMan'' (1998) as Lois Harlan
41	* ''Film/RescuersStoriesOfCourage'' (1998) as Maria Althoff
42	* ''Film/MyFavoriteMartian'' (1999) as Lizzie
43	* ''Film/AWalkToRemember'' (2002) as Cynthia Carter
44	* ''[[Film/KillBill Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2]]'' (2003 and 2004) as Elle Driver
45	* ''Film/SocialNightmare'' (2013) as Susan Hardy
46	* ''Film/SkinTraffik'' (2015) as Zhanna
47	* ''Series/Sense8'' (2015-2018) as Angelica Turing
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49	!! I Trope, Therefore I Am:
50	* ActorIsTheTitleCharacter: ''Roxanne''.
51	* TheCastShowoff: The gymnastic moves Pris performs throughout ''Blade Runner'' were not in the original script, which only implied that Pris had advanced gymnastic abilities as part of her physical enhancements. Hannah's skills as a trained gymnast and ballerina made Ridley Scott add them in, as he now had an actress who was capable of performing them.
52	** The mermaid tail Daryl Hannah wore in ''Splash'' was fully functional. The showoff part is that, ironically enough, Hannah had learned to swim mermaid style (legs together) since childhood due to her fascination with the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''. As a result, she swam so fast with the tail that the safety divers couldn't keep up.
53	* CoolCar: She owns the Pontiac Trans Am that Elle drove in ''Kill Bill'', which has since been converted into an electric car.
54	* TheDanza: "Daryl" in ''Garbage''
55	* DarkActionGirl: As Pris in ''Blade Runner'' and as Elle Driver in ''Kill Bill''
56	* FamilyFriendlyStripper: In ''Dancing at the Blue Iguana''.
57	* GranolaGirl: A very prominent RealLife example, she's as equally well known for being an environmental activist as she is for her acting career.
58	* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: As Madison in ''Film/{{Splash}}'', Ayla in ''Clan of the Cave Bear'', Roxanne Kowalski in ''Roxanne''.
59	* LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek: ''[[SocialMediaIsBad Social Nightmare]]''
60	* MagicalGirlfriend: As Madison the mermaid in ''Splash'' and as the ghost Mary in ''High Spirits''.
61	* MsFanservice: To almost OncePerEpisode levels. ''Many'' of her films involve nudity of some kind. She has claimed that the first thing directors have said to her when she arrived on the set was, "Oh, and about the nude scene."
62	** She posed nude for ''Playboy'' to promote ''Kill Bill''.
63	* RomanticComedy: ''[=Splash=]'', ''[=Roxanne=]'', ''Summer Lovers'', ''Two Much''.
64	* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The cover of the March 1998 issue of ''Gear Magazine'' is her pointing a gun at the camera.
65	* StatuesqueStunner: Her striking looks and her 5' 10"[=/=]178 cm frame are her physical trademarks, often used to great advantage in her performances.
66	** Her physique helped her secure the role of Pris in ''Blade Runner''. Out of all the actresses who auditioned for the role, Ridley Scott felt that Hannah could most believably be able to physically overpower Creator/HarrisonFord given her unusually tall frame and athletic build. Watching her linger around and hover over the significantly shorter Creator/WilliamSanderson in character as Pris is NightmareFuel.
67	** Despite the film's tepid reception, Hannah's height and build made her a pretty good choice for Ayla in ''The Clan of the Cave'', as in [[Literature/EarthsChildren the books]] she's described as being an athletic, unusually tall and beautiful woman (as an adult Ayla stands nearly six feet tall and even as a adolescent she towers over everyone in the Clan, as Neanderthals are much shorter than Cro-Magnon).
68	* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: This is the UsefulNotes/{{Feminis\|m}}t message of her remake of ''Attack of the 50 Foot Woman'':
69	-->"You're better than they are. You're smarter than they are. And you know more than you think. We all do."

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