Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn
Kathryn Hahn is an American actress. She began her career on television playing Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan. Hahn went on to appear as supporting actress in a number of comedy films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers, Our Idiot Brother, We're the Millersand The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth23 July 1973
CityWestchester, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.
It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.
I've learned just how much capacity for love a heart has. You can't believe it. I couldn't believe after having my first that I could ever love anything as much as him. And then when I had my daughter - your heart just expands. There's so much room in it. It's been a nuts, chaotic mess and I love it.
I have impossible standards.
You find your tribe and you stick with them.
Women just get really hard on each other.
We live in a society now where it's very rare for your parents to be around. It used to be like, your mother, grandmothers, your family around would help. Now, you're surrounded by other moms and friends and it's really disorienting, because there's such varying, crazy, different points of view and advice coming at you.
I have two kids, and when my oldest was first born, it was the most vulnerable feeling in the world. I remember taking him to his first doctor's appointment, and on the sheet, it said "mother," and I put my mom's name. I was like, "Oh, right, I ... I'm the mother!" You just feel so vulnerable.
There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.
I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.
You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.
There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.
There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.
As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.