Keener appeared in Joker: Folie à Deux, the sequel to the 2019 film Joker
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Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener is an American actress. Keener is known for her portrayals of disgruntled, melancholic and sympathetic women in independent films, as well as her supporting roles in studio films. Her accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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Born 26 March 1959 · Q230378
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2017· 1 entry
Keener starred as Missy Armitage in the racially themed horror film Get Out, which was a critical and commercial success
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2016· 1 entry
Keener starred in the independent film Unless
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2014· 1 entry
The Montreal Gazette journalist T'Cha Dunlevy selected Keener as his most memorable interview of the year, during which he admitted to mostly remembering laughing
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2010· 1 entry
Inside Jersey contributor Stephen Whitty observed that, throughout a decade of interviewing the actress, Keener had always been open to commenting about her collaborators, both directors and co-stars, but often refused t
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2008· 2 entries
Her film An American Crime, the true story of Gertrude Baniszewski, a middle-aged mother who tortured and murdered Sylvia Likens in her Indiana home, was aired on Showtime
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Keener portrayed Philip Seymour Hoffman's wife Adele in Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York
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2007· 1 entry
Keener played Jan Burres in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's best-selling book of the same name
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2006).
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Starred in the film Friends with Money, directed by Nicole Holofcener
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2005· 6 entries
Awarded Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2005).
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Awarded Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2005).
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Awarded Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2005).
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Awarded Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2005).
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Awarded Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Capote (2005).
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Starred in the political thriller The Interpreter (as a Secret Service agent partnered with Sean Penn's character) and The Ballad of Jack and Rose with Daniel Day-Lewis and played the love interest of Steve Carell in
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2002· 1 entry
Co-starred with Edward Norton in the off-Broadway revival of Burn This and the film Death to Smoochy
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2001· 1 entry
Worked with director Nicole Holofcener in Lovely and Amazing, garnering her a third Independent Spirit Award nomination
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2000· 1 entry
Keener earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Being John Malkovich, directed by Spike Jonze
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1987· 1 entry
While working on Survival Quest, after Mulroney became stuck while attempting to scale a cliff
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1983· 1 entry
Studied at Wheaton College (1983).
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-03-26.
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