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| A sharp-featured, pretty actress, Catherine Keener has shone in a number of low-budget films in the 1990s, including several directed by Tom DiCillo and co-starring her husband Dermot Mulroney. She originally began her showbiz career as a casting agent but by 1986 had segued to performing with a turn of a coctail waitress in "About Last Night..." 5Keener's career was slow to start with a series of small roles in the adventure flick "Survival Quest" (1989), as a trucker's girl in Dennis Hopper's thriller "Backtrack" (1990), as Perry King's secretary in Blake Edwards' "Switch" (1991), and alongside Penelope Ann Miller in the quirky "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" (1992). Also in 1992, Keener worked for the first time with Tom DiCillo, in the low-budget fable "Johnny Suede", starring Brad Pitt. 5Two years later, DiCillo cast Keener, Mulroney and Steve Buscemi in the short "Scene Six, Take One," a comedy/drama about the horrors of low-budget film making. DiCillo expanded the idea for a full-length feature, "Living in Oblivion" (1995), with most of the same cast. Keener continued as the girlfriend of a boxer-turned-hitman (Alan Gelfant) in "The Destiny of Marty Fine" (1995), had a small role in Stacy Cochran's "Boys" (1996) and co-starred with Anne Heche as a continual loser in love in Nicole Holofcener's gal-pal film "Walking and Talking" (1996). 5Keener re-teamed with DiCillo for two films: the small-town comedy "Box of Moonlight" (1996), as a flaky local who romances John Turturro, and the New York fashion-biz comedy "The Real Blonde" (1997). |
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