Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener
Catherine Ann Keener is an American actress. She has been twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Maxine Lund in Being John Malkovichand Harper Lee in Capote. Keener also appeared in the films Into the Wildand Synecdoche, New York, which were well received by critics. Keener is also the noted muse of director Nicole Holofcener, having appeared in every work of hers to date...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth23 March 1959
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.
I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.
Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.
I know many great actors who have small heads.
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.
I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.
I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.
I think people are always looking for a good comedy.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
I've worked with a lot of great directors.