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Illeana Douglas (b. July 25 1965, Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American actress.
She was born Illeana Hesselberg, and her grandfather was the actor Melvyn Douglas. Her step-grandmother Helen Gahagan Douglas was an actress, who later entered politics and ran for the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon in 1950. Illeana's mother is an Italian American [1] and her father was of Russian Jewish, Irish and Scottish ancestry.
Acting since she was a child in Connecticut, Douglas studied at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York from the age of 10
[2].
She is well known for her part in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991), her role as singer/songwriter Denise Waverly in Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart (1996), and her roles in To Die For (1995) and Ghost World (2001).
At the Walt Disney World Resort in the Disney-MGM Studios theme park, Douglas played the manager for the band Aerosmith in the preshow movie for the Rock 'N' Rollercoaster Starring Aerosmith attraction.
On TV, Douglas starred in the series Action (1999) with Jay Mohr, guest starred on both Seinfeld and Frasier and has played a public defender on several episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2002 and 2003. She appeared in two episodes of the critically acclaimed HBO TV-series Six Feet Under, and in 2006 she starred in the Lifetime TV Movie Not Like Everyone Else.
Douglas has tried her hand at writing and directing, with a comedy short
The Perfect Woman (1993), the documentary
Everybody Just Stay Calm--Stories in Independent Filmmaking (1994), and the satire
Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1995); and she has been producer for several projects including
Illeanarama, a collection of her short films for the
Sundance Channel.
Filmography
External link
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