Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Hesselberg, most commonly known as Illeana Douglas,is an American actress, director, screenwriter, and producer. Douglas has had a long-ranging diverse career as a character actor with a specialty in comedy. Notable works include work in a 2001 episode of Six Feet Under – for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series and won the Best Guest Actress in a Drama Series award from OFTA, the Online Film & Television Association –...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 July 1965
CityQuincy, MA
It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.
I often take clothes from my mom's closet, because she was a Simplicity pattern model in the 1950s and loves clothes. She's also a total pack rat.
I want to bring back some sketch comedy. I did work with a group called Manhattan Punch Line with Oliver Platt in the early '80s.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.
My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes.
It used to be much easier for me to flit between a studio and an independent film, but now it depends a lot more on the director.
We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.
Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
God only knows what else is on the web about me.