Actor
Catherine Keener
Biography

Catherine Ann Keener (born March 23, 1959) is an American actress. Considered one of the independent film industry's most reliable performers, Keener is known for portraying disgruntled and melancholic yet sympathetic women in independent films, as well as supporting roles in studio films. She has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich (1999) and for her portrayal of author Harper Lee in Capote (2005). Keener also appeared in the films Th ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Joker: Folie à Deux | Maryanne Stewart
2022 -- Polar Bear | Narrator (voice)
2022 -- The Adam Project | Maya Sorian
2021 -- No Future | Claire
2021 -- Dear Diary: World's First Pranks | Ugga (voice)
2020 -- The Croods: A New Age | Ugga Crood (voice)
2018 -- Meet the Pickles - Behind the Scenes of Kidding | Self
2018 -- Sicario: Day of the Soldado | Cynthia Foards
2018 -- Incredibles 2 | Evelyn Deavor (voice)
2018 -- Little Pink House | Susette Kelo
2018 -- Nostalgia | Donna Beam
2017 -- November Criminals | Fiona
2017 -- We Don't Belong Here | Nancy Green
2017 -- Get Out | Missy Armitage
2016 -- Unless | Reta
2015 -- Elephant Song | Nurse Susan Peterson
2015 -- Accidental Love | Rep. Pam Hendrickson
2014 -- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 | Ellie / Self
2014 -- War Story | Lee
2013 -- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | Ellie Zisman
2013 -- Captain Phillips | Andrea Phillips
2013 -- Enough Said | Marianne
2013 -- Begin Again | Miriam Hart
2013 -- The Croods | Ugga (voice)
2013 -- Discord and Harmony: Creating a Late Quartet | Self
2012 -- Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home | Narrator
2012 -- A Late Quartet | Juliette Gelbart
2012 -- Maladies | Catherine
2012 -- All Noncombatants Please Clear the Set | Self
2011 -- Peace, Love & Misunderstanding | Diane Hudson
2011 -- The Oranges | Paige Walling
2010 -- Trust | Lynn Cameron
2010 -- Cyrus | Jamie
2010 -- Please Give | Kate
2010 -- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Sally Jackson
2009 -- Where the Wild Things Are | Mom
2009 -- Collaborators | Herself
2009 -- Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak | Herself
2009 -- The Soloist | Mary Weston
2009 -- Genova | Barbara
2008 -- Synecdoche, New York | Adele Lack
2008 -- What Just Happened | Lou Tarnow
2008 -- Hamlet 2 | Brie Marschz
2007 -- Into the Wild | Jan Burres
2007 -- An American Crime | Gertrude Baniszewski
2006 -- Friends with Money | Christine
2006 -- Making Capote: Concept to Script | Self
2005 -- Capote | Harper Lee
2005 -- The 40 Year Old Virgin | Trish Piedmont
2005 -- The Interpreter | Dot Woods
2005 -- The Ballad of Jack and Rose | Kathleen
2002 -- Adaptation. | Catherine Keener (uncredited)
2002 -- Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary | Self
2002 -- Death to Smoochy: Bloopers & Outtakes | Self
2002 -- S1m0ne | Elaine Christian
2002 -- Lovely & Amazing | Michelle Marks
2002 -- Full Frontal | Lee
2002 -- Death to Smoochy | Nora Wells
1999 -- Being John Malkovich | Maxine Lund
1999 -- Simpatico | Cecilia
1999 -- 8MM | Amy Welles
1998 -- Your Friends & Neighbors | Terri
1998 -- Out of Sight | Adele Delisi
1998 -- The Real Blonde | Mary
1996 -- If These Walls Could Talk | Becky
1996 -- Box of Moonlight | Floatie Dupre
1996 -- Walking and Talking | Amelia
1996 -- Boys | Jilly
1996 -- The Destiny of Marty Fine | Lena
1996 -- Heroine of Hell | Magda
1995 -- Living in Oblivion | Nicole Springer
1993 -- The Cemetery Club | Esther's Daughter (uncredited)
1992 -- The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Suzanne
1991 -- Johnny Suede | Yvonne
1991 -- Switch | Steve's Secretary (Beth)
1990 -- Catchfire | Trucker's girl
1988 -- Survival Quest | Cheryl
1986 -- The Abduction of Allison Tate | Linda Kellogg
1986 -- About Last Night... | Cocktail Waitress
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