Catherine Keener

Catherine Keener (born March 26, 1959) is an American actress. Known for playing complicated women in independent films, her accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.

Keener started her career in the late 1980s and gained recognition in the early 1990s for her roles in Johnny Suede (1991) and Walking and Talking (1996), which marked her first of many collaborations with directors Tom DiCillo and Nicole Holofcener, respectively.^[3] For her performances in Spike Jonze's fantasy Being John Malkovich (1999) and her portrayal of author Harper Lee in Capote (2005), she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This period saw her also appear in the films Adaptation. (2002), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Into the Wild (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), and Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), as well as the television film An American Crime (2007). Keener's portrayal of Gertrude Baniszewski in the latter earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie.

Since the 2010s, Keener has acted in live-action films such as the psychological horror Get Out (2017) and thriller Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), as well the animated films The Croods (2013), its sequel The Croods: A New Age (2020), and Incredibles 2 (2018). From 2018 to 2020, she starred in the Showtime dramedy series Kidding.