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
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.
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'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.