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26 May 2008 6:51 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

Joan Cusack has long been overshadowed by her more famous brother John Cusack, but there's no evidence that she's ever let it bother her; she's always seemed like a settled, down-to-earth person who chose marriage and children (two sons, at this point, born in 1997 and 2000 respectively) over larger fame. And yet she's maintained a steady career as an actor in film and on TV, with more than 50 roles over the past 30 years—most notably, her Oscar-nominated supporting-player parts in Working Girl and In & Out. Two themes have recurred throughout her career: roles as smart, perky, slightly ditzy, funny women in comedies, and roles playing across from John, often as his foil, supporter, or advisor. They've appeared in 10 films together so far; the latest is War, Inc., a blistering Iraq-war satire which John co-wrote, co-produced, and stars in as an exhausted assassin sent on a job...

Tasha Robinson

1 article from 2008