Joan Cusack
Joanna Mary Cusack (/ˈkjuːsæk/; born October 11, 1962)[1][2] is an American actress and comedian. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the comedy-drama Working Girl (1988) and the romantic comedy In & Out (1997). Her other starring roles include those in Toys (1992), Addams Family Values (1993), Nine Months (1995), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Where the Heart Is (2000), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008). She has also provided the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story franchise (1999–present), for which she won an Annie Award, and Abby Mallard in Chicken Little (2005).
Not to be confused with her brother, John Cusack.
Joan Cusack
- Actress
- comedian
1979–present
2
Dick Cusack (father)
- Ann Cusack (sister)
- John Cusack (brother)
Cusack was a cast member on the comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. She starred on the Showtime hit drama/comedy series Shameless (2011–2021) as Sheila Jackson, a role for which she received five consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning for the first time in 2015. She is the sister of actress Ann Cusack and actor John Cusack.
Early life[edit]
Cusack was born on October 11, 1962, in New York City and was raised in Evanston, Illinois.[3] Her mother, Ann Paula "Nancy" Cusack (née Carolan; 1929–2022),[4] was a former mathematics teacher and political activist.[5][6][7] Her father, Dick Cusack (1925–2003), was an actor and filmmaker, and two of her four siblings, Ann and John, are actors. Her family is of Irish Catholic descent.[8] Cusack is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1984).[9]
Personal life[edit]
Cusack married attorney Richard Burke, President and CEO of Envoy Global, Inc. in 1996.[12][13] They have two sons: Dylan John and Miles.[14] She discovered she was pregnant with her first child on her first day of shooting the movie Mr. Wrong (1996). Cusack owns a home in Three Oaks Township, Michigan, and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
In 2003, both Joan and her brother John signed the "Not in My Name" resolution (along with people such as Noam Chomsky and Susan Sarandon) opposing the invasion of Iraq.
Since 2011, Cusack has owned Judy Maxwell Home, a gift shop in Old Town, Chicago.[15] The shop is named for Barbra Streisand's character in What's Up Doc?, Cusack's favorite movie.[16]