Catherine Keener

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Catherine Keener recently starred opposite Edward Norton in the Signature Theater Company's critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Langford Wilson's Burn This. Keener received a nomination for a 2003 Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress for her performance as a former homecoming queen stuck in a loveless marriage in Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing, also starring Brenda Blethyn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emily Mortimer and Dermot Mulroney. In 2000, Keener received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Maxine, the manipulative co-worker who seduces the puppeteer, his wife and the title character in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Her film credits also include Jonze's Adaptation, Andrew Niccol's SIm0ne, Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and Out of Sight, Danny DeVito's Death to Smoochy, Neil LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors, Holofcener's Walking and Talking and the screen adaptation of Sam Shepard's Simpatico. Keener also appeared in four films by Tom DiCillo: Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight, and The Real Blonde. For television, Keener co-starred in HBO's critically acclaimed anthology, 'If These Walls Could Talk," directed by Nancy Savoca, and made a notable guest appearance on the Seinfeld episode The Letter, as Nina, painter of The Kramer.

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Catherine Keener Facts

Occupation	Actress
Birthday	March 26, 1960 (48)
Sign	Aries
Birthplace	Miami, Florida, USA
Height	5' 7" (1m70)

Selected Filmography

Into the Wild

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

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