Biography

Joan Cusack

Posted on Dec 13, 2020, Modified : Dec 16, 2020 prabriti

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About Joan Cusack

Joan Cusack is a well known and successful American actress and comedian who has been seen working actively on her career since the year of 1979.

Quick Info
Full Name	Joan Mary Cusack
Date of Birth	11 October 1962
Birth Place	New York City, U.S
Parent(s)	Dick Cusack and Ann Paula “Nancy”
Occupation	actress and comedian
Partner(s)/Spouse(s)	Richard Burke
Net Worth	$20 million.

Personal Life and Relationship

Joan Cusack, whose real name is Joan Mary Cusack, was born on 11 October 1962 in New York City, U.S. as a daughter of father, Dick Cusack and mother, Ann Paula “Nancy”. Her mother is a former mathematics teacher as well as political activist where her father was an actor and filmmaker. She has four siblings who were John Cusack, Ann Cusack, Susie Cusack and Bill Cusack. Among them Ann and John are also actors.

Cusack married in 1996 with an attorney Richard Burke who is a CEO of Envoy Global, Inc. Later, in 1997, she gave birth to their son, Dylan John and then, in 2000, she gave birth to another son, Miles.

Nationality and Physical Stats

Joan Cusack holds an American nationality and belongs to Irish ethnicity. Currently, she is 58 years old with the height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and weight of 68 kg. She had got the body measurements of 36-27-34 inches and had red hair with blue eyes. As she was born on 11 October, her zodiac sign is Libra.

Early Life and Education

Earlier, she attended at university of Wisconsin-Madison and she had not mentioned about anything about her personal life.

Career

Film Career

Joan Cusack started her professional career after she had been casted into the movie “Cutting Loose” in 1980. After that, she was seen appearing as Shelley on an American teen comedy drama movie “My Bodyguard” in the same year. Later, she was casted into the role of Julia on an American comedy drama movie “Class” in 1983 which was directed by Lewis John Carlino. In the year of 1984, she was seen appearing as Geek Girl on an American coming-of-age comedy movie “Sixteen Candles”.

Further, Joan Cusack was seen playing the role as Mary Maine on a comedy movie “Grandview, U.S.A” and also seen as Gina on a comedy movie “The Allnighter” in 1987. In the same year, she was also seen on an American romantic comedy-drama movie “Broadcast News”. In 1988, she was casted Irene Stein on an American comedy movie “Stars and Bars” for which she had won Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting actress. In that year, she was seen playing the role as Rose on an American comedy movie “Married to the Mob” for which she had won Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting actress.

Later, she was also seen on an American romantic comedy-drama movie “Working Girl” as Cyn for which she had won American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had also received the nomination on an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Likewise, Joan Cusack was seen appearing into the several movies including “Say Anything”, “Men Don’t Leave”, “Men Don’t Leave”, “My Blue Heaven”, “The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez”, “Accidental Hero” and “Toys”. In the year of 1993, she was seen playing the role as Debbie Jellinsky on an American satirical black comedy movie “Addams Family Values” for which she was nominated on Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1994, she was seen appearing as Jonesy on a movie “Corrina, Corrina” and after that, in 1995, she was casted as Gail Dwyer on a American romantic comedy movie “Nine Months” for which she was nominated on an American Comedy Award for Funniest Support Actress in a Motion Picture. In the same year, she was also seen on as Gloria on a comedy movie “Two Much”

Later, she was seen appearing on an American romantic black comedy movie “Mr. Wrong” in 1996.After that, she was seen playing the role as Marcella Mayes on a comedy movie “Grosse Pointe Black”. In the same year, she was casted as Nancy Tellen on an American romantic comedy movie “A Smile Like yours”.

Later, Joan Cusack was also casted as Emily Montgomery on an American comedy movie “In& Out” for which she had won several awards including American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Boston Society of Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress-Motion Picture and Society of Texas Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In addition, Joan Cusack was seen playing the several roles in the several movies like “Arling Road”, “Cradle Will Rock”, “High Fidelity”, “Where the Heart Is”, “It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie”, “School of Rock”, “Looney Tunes: Back in Action”, “Raising Helen”, “The Last Shot” and “Ice Princess”. In 1999, he was also casted as Peggy Flemming on a romantic comedy movie “Runaway Bride” for which she had won American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress-Comedy/ Romance.

After that, she was also seen providing her voice over the character Jessie on an American computer-animated comedy movie “Toy Story 2” for which she had won Annie award for Female Voice Acting in a feature Production. In 2005, she was seen providing her voice over the character Abby Mallard a computer-animated science fiction comedy movie “Chicken Little”.

Further, she was seen appearing into the several movies like “Friends with Money”, “Martian Child”, “War, Inc”, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”, “Confessions of a Shopaholic”, “My Sister’s Keeper”, “Acceptance”, “Toy Story 3” as voice actor, “Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil” as voice actor, “Mars Needs Moms” as voice actor, “Hawaiian Vacation” as voice actor”, “Small Fry” as voice actor, “Arthur Christmas” as voice actor and “Partysaurus Rex” as voice actor.

In addition, she was seen playing the roles in several movies like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, “Welcome to Me”, “The End of the Tour”, “Freaks of Nature”, “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping”, “Snatched”, “Unicorn Store”, “Instant Family”, “Toy Story 4” as voice actor, “Klaus” as voice actor and “Let It Snow”.

Television Career

Joan Cusack started her television career, after she had been casted into the various roles on a night live show “Saturday Night Live” from the year of 19985 to 1986. Further, she was seen appearing into the several series like “What about Joan?”, “Peep and the Big Wide World”, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”, “Phineas and Ferb” as voice actor, “The office”, “Toy story of Terror” as voice actor,

Also, as “Toy Story that Time Forgot” as voice actor, “The Stinky & Dirty Show” as voice actor, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, “The Christmas Train” and “Homecoming”. From the year of 2011 to 2015, she was casted as Sheila Gallagher on an American comedy-drama television series “Shameless” for which she had won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy series.

Video Games

Besides this, Joan Cusack was seen providing her voice on a video games like “Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue”, “Chicken Little”, “Chicken Little: Ace in Action”, “Toy Story 3: The Video Game”, “Kinect Disneyland Adventures”, “Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixer Adventure” and “Disney Magic Kingdoms.