Catherine Keener
American actress (born 1959)
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- Catherine has received the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Oscar nominations for playing Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovich (1999) and the author Harper Lee in Capote (2005).
- She is often confused with the actress and ex-wife of Tom Cruise, Mimi Rogers.
- Her most notable film role is playing the author Harper Lee opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s Oscar-winning performance as Truman Capote in the biographical drama, Capote (2005). Lee, who was Capote’s lifelong best friend, refused to meet Catherine for the role and did not cooperate with the filmmakers during the film’s production. However, once the film was released, Lee reached out to Keener saying that she enjoyed the film.
- As of 2024, 3 of her films have been Academy Award nominees for ‘Best Picture’: Capote (2005), Captain Phillips (2013), and Get Out (2017).
- Catherine starred opposite the then-unknown Brad Pitt in one of his earlier films Johnny Suede (1991). The two have maintained a close friendship over the years, and are known to attend each other’s movie premieres frequently. Lastly, she is also good friends with Pitt’s ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston.
- She has been the filmmaker Nicole Holofcener’s muse and the two have collaborated together on acclaimed films like Lovely and Amazing (2001), Friends with Money (2006), Walking and Talking (1996), Please Give (2010), Enough Said (2013), etc.
- Attended a Catholic high school, Monsignor Edward Pace High School, Miami, Florida.
- Graduated from Immaculate Conception in Hialeah, Florida
- Grew up in Hialeah, Florida.
- Graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts in 1983.
- Son Clyde is born. (1999)
- Sister-in-law of Kieran Mulroney.
- Has been close friends with Brad Pitt since they both starred in 1991's Johnny Suede (1991) together, and they often attend each other's movie premieres.
- Older sister of Elizabeth Keener.
- Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997.