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
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.
We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
I'm a huge poster collector.
The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.