Birthday: March 26, 1960
Catherine Keener ranks with Parker Posey as one of the queens of 1990s American independent cinema. A muse for director Tom Di Cillo (Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight, The Real Blonde), she is married to one of her peers, the also-underrated Dermot Mulroney. Keener graduated from Wheaton College in 1983 and in 1986 she landed her first film role, a ...more- 2010
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Robert Altman Award
- Please Give
- win
- 2008
- Independent Spirit Awards
- Robert Altman Award
- Synecdoche, New York
- win
- 2008
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
- An American Crime
- 2008
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- An American Crime
- 2007
- Detroit Film Critics Society
- Best Supporting Actress
- Into the Wild
- 2010
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Sally Jackson
- 2010
- Please Give
- Kate
- 2010
- Cyrus
- Jamie
- 2010
- Trust
- Lynn
- 2009
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Mom
- 2009
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Associate Producer
- 2005
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Co-producer














