Known primarily for 1982’s Blade Runner, Daryl Hannah is an actress many will recognize. Films like 1989’s Steel Magnolias and 2003’s Kill Bill are other titles for which she is known, and ore recently, she had a role in the Netflix series Sense8. Daryl has used her fame to become a campaigner for environmental sustainability, and she’s even been arrested several times for participating in protests! Over the years she has won several awards for both her acting and her environmental activism. She’s just as talented behind the camera as she is in front of it, and in 2012 she produced a documentary about climate change denial called Greedy Lying Bastards. Daryl has never been married, but she’s been dating musician Neil Young since 2014. The two live in Los Angeles in a home that runs entirely off solar power!
Winner of two Academy Awards and two Oscars, Dianne Wiest is a well known star of Hollywood. She became famous for her roles in several Woody Allen films, even though her first meeting with the director lasted only 30 seconds! In fact, both her Oscars were earned for Woody Allen movies: 1986’s Hannah and Her Sister and 1994’s Bullets over Broadway. Other films of hers include 1984’s Footloose, 1987’s The Lost Boys, and 1996’s The Birdcage. More recently, she has appeared in the television series In Treatment, and was featured in the 2012 film The Odd Life of Timothy Green and 2015’s Sisters. Currently, she can be found starring in the television series Life in Pieces. Dianne was in a long-term relationship with New York talent agent Sam Cohn for a number of years, but the two never married. She currently lives in New York with her two adopted daughters.
Born into a privileged family in New York, Sigourney Weaver grew up around quite a few family members who had already made it in the entertainment industry. Shortly after landing her breakout role in 1977 Wood Allen film Annie Hall, Sigourney got the role in the Alien franchise that she’s still known for today. Sigourney has been in a number of notable films over the years, including the 1984 flick Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II. In 2009, the blockbuster hit Avatar confirmed she was still a force to be reckoned with. Sigourney is well loved for her various roles in science fiction cinema, and films such as 1999’s Galaxy Quest are still cult hits nearly two decades later. She’s even done voice acting in several science fiction video games, including one based on Avatar and one based on the Alien franchise!
Nominated for an Academy Award for 1981’s Ragtime, Elizabeth McGovern has been a staple of Hollywood for decades. 1984’s Once Upon A Time In America and 1990’s The Handmaid’s Tale are other films that helped cement her significance in cinema. More recently, she became a household name while starring on the ITV television series Downton Abbey, which ran from 2010 to 2016. Films such as 2010’s Clash of the Titans and 2015’s Woman in Gold also made it clear that Hollywood has no intention of letting her star fade. Not content with all her success in acting, Elizabeth is also a part-time singer-songwriter. In 2008, she became the front woman of a band called Sadie and the Hotheads, which opened for Sting in 2013! The actress is notoriously tight-lipped about her personal life, but she lives in England with her husband Simon Curtis, a British filmmaker.
