Illeana Douglas
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Illeana Douglas (born July 25, 1965) is an American actress. She was born Illeana Hesselberg, and her grandfather was the esteemed Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Hesselberg). Illeana's mother is an Italian American,[link] and her father was one quarter Jewish and three quarters Scottish.
Acting since she was a child in Massachusetts, Douglas studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York from the age of 10 [link].
She is well known for her part in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991), and her role as singer/songwriter Denise Waverly in Alison Anders' Grace of My Heart (1996).
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, and has played a public defender on several episodes of in 2002 and 2003. She appeared in several 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
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Grief (1993)
- (1993)
- Quiz Show (1994)
- To Die For (1995)
- Wedding Bell Blues (1996)
- Grace of My Heart (1996)
- Picture Perfect (1997)
- Stir of Echoes (1999)
- ''Rock 'N' RollercoasterPreshow (1999)
- Ghost World (2000)
- Dummy (2002)
- The New Guy (2002)
- Stories Of Lost Souls (2005)
- Illeanarama (2005)
- Not Like Everyone Else (2006)
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