- Born
- Birth nameDaryl Christine Hannah
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Daryl Christine Hannah was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Susan Jeanne (Metzger), a schoolteacher and later a producer, and Donald Christian Hannah, who owned a tugboat/barge company. Her stepfather was music journalist/promoter Jerrold Wexler. Her siblings are Page Hannah, Don Hannah and Tanya Wexler. She has Scottish, Norwegian, Danish, Irish, English, and German ancestry.
Daryl graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre. She practiced ballet with Maria Tallchief and studied drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. In her twenties, she played keyboard and sang backup for Jackson Browne. Hannah, a tall (5' 10") blond beauty, with haunting blue-green eyes, was a natural for show biz.
She started with small roles, such as a student in The Fury (1978) and as Kim Basinger's kid sister in Hard Country (1981). Daryl's breakout role was as the acrobatic, beautiful replicant punk android Pris in Blade Runner (1982); Pris was the vixen who wanted to live beyond her allotted years and risked the wrath of the title character. Showing her versatility, from there she portrayed a mermaid, Madison, who falls in love with Tom Hanks's character in Ron Howard's zany comedy Splash (1983), and a Cro-Magnon in The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986). Hannah played Roxanne in the eponymous Steve Martins contemporary take on the Cyrano de Bergerac story, and co-starred as Elle Driver in Quintin Tarantino's box office hit Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004).
Hannah has been a consistent, strong supporter of independent cinema, both acting in and producing many films, starring in such indie films as John Sayles's Casa de los babys (2003) as well as his political satire Silver City (2004). She worked on several films with the revered Robert Altman, including The Gingerbread Man (1998), as well as several films with the Polish Brothers including Northfork (2003) and Jackpot (2001). Daryl starred in the experimental improvised Michael Radford film Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) and made As a filmmaker, Hannah wrote, directed, and produced an award winning short film, entitled The Last Supper (1995). Hannah also directed, produced and shot the documentary Strip Notes (2002) which was inspired while researching her role for Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) that was shown on HBO and UK's Channel 4.
Daryl is in the process of shooting a documentary on Human Trafficking and has traveled undercover to South East Asia to document this atrocity and has become and advocates raising awareness and ending slavery. She has made over 40 video blogs for various websites including her popular dhlovelife.com. She designed dhlovelife.com (online since 2005) her website dedicated to sharing solutions on how to live more harmoniously with the planet and all other living things. Daryl has been passionate, committed and effective advocate for a more ethical relationship with each other and all life on the Planet. She has produced, hosted and shot numerous environmental awareness/ health documentaries, TV appearances and is a frequent speaker on both the conservative and progressive news.
Hannah has been a greening consultant for events such as the Virgin Music Festival, attended by over 150,000 people. Her many speaking engagements include keynote speeches at the UN Climate Change Summit, UN Global Business Conference on the environment, Natural and Organic Products Expo, LOHAS and numerous national and international universities, conferences and events. She has written articles on self sufficiency and sustainability for many magazines and has done a plethora of interviews on the topic in thousands of publications. The site features weekly five-minute inspirational video blogs which Daryl produces and films. There are daily news updates, alerts, community and access to goods and services. She is a member of the World Future Council, sits on the boards of the Sylvia Earle Alliance, Mission Blue, Eco America, Environmental Media Association (EMA), The Somaly Mam Foundation, and the Action Sports Environmental Coalition, She is the founder of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Dicker and kdhaisch@aol.com and CPG
- SpouseNeil Young(July 27, 2018 - present)
- ParentsSusan Jeanne MetzgerDonald Christian Hannah
- RelativesPage Hannah(Sibling)Don Hannah(Sibling)Tanya Wexler(Half Sibling)
- Long curly blonde hair
- Fair skin and blue eyes
- Low husky voice
- On two occasions has run after and captured muggers in New York City. She says that both men's faces displayed mixed emotions when they realized who was sitting on their chests, holding them for police.
- Was in a serious relationship with John Kennedy Jr. for several years, but never married due to Jacqueline Kennedy's disapproval of her son marrying an actress. Hannah has also dated Warren Beatty (who coincidentally was once involved with Mrs. Kennedy as well), Jackson Browne, Val Kilmer, and Brad Renfro.
- As a child, she was so shy that at one point she was diagnosed as borderline autistic. Even today, she says she likes to just sit in a corner and observe people.
- Suffers from agoraphobia (fear of open spaces), a phobia she kept secret for many years, fearing it might ruin her acting career
- A story on America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988) showed how she goes undercover to help rescue children as young as 6 years old from the brothels in Bangkok.
- [on her arrest for protesting the demolition of Los Angeles' South Central garden] I'm not thrilled about it, but I felt it was important to sustain my commitment.
- I feel like I'm about 7. I always get shocked when I look in the mirror and see a grown-up.
- I was a daydreamer when I was a child and I still am. I like fantasy a lot. It would be great if I could always play mythological characters.
- [on addressing the skepticism of climate-change deniers] I make a concerted effort to do conservative media. People go, "Oh no, don't do that. They'll eat you alive." But I don't care; that's what I need to do. I need to reach those people and at least give them the opportunity to listen to the information. I really believe if people have information, they will make wise decisions.
- One of my happiest memories is of filming At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. I'd lived in a cave in Greece for three months as a teenager, filming Summer Lovers (1982), so knew I had the wild girl in me. In Brazil, we were shooting a long speedboat ride up the river, flying in and out to our jungle location every day from a Holiday Inn in the smoggy chaos of Belem city, crew piled into a rickety 1940s pontoon plane. One evening, I'd had enough, so I strung up my hammock and refused to budge. An assistant director stayed with me - Kátia Lund, who went on to co-direct City of God (2002) - and we had the greatest time. As soon as the plane was out of sight, we'd strip off and plunge straight into the river. We fashioned our own waterskis out of driftwood and we'd take one of the little location boats and explore - docking at little Amazon villages, eating with the locals. Delicious things such as tacaca, a clear broth made with jambu, a native vegetable, and tucupi, a yellow sauce from the wild manioc root. I loved the mornings on the Amazon, waking to warm sunshine on my skin and breakfast plucked from nearby trees: bananas, mango, guava and açaí berries. Night was the real challenge, as we well knew how many scorpions and tarantulas shared our home. We slept cocooned in our hammocks, beneath grass-roofed shacks with no doors and windows.
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