JOAN CUSACK (Ruth Meyers) has received two Academy Award® nominations, one for her comic portrayal of a Staten Island secretary in "Working Girl" with Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith, the other for her role as Kevin Kline's jilted bride in the critically acclaimed "In & Out." Among her other roles are the femme fatale in "Addams Family Values," "Grosse Point Blank," "Nine Months," "The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez" (directed by Peter Sellars), "Corrina, Corrina," "Toys," "Hero," "My Blue Heaven," "Men Don't Leave," "Broadcast News," "Say Anything" and "Sixteen Candles," among others. She made her screen debut in Tony Bill's "My Bodyguard" at age 15.
Cusack recently appeared on the big screen in "Arlington Road" with Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges, "Runaway Bride" with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, and in director Tim Robbins' "Cradle Will Rock" with Bill Murray. She will next be seen in Stephen Frears' "High Fidelity."
Cusack's theatre work includes the premiere of "Brilliant Traces" at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre, "The Road" at La Mama and Imogen in "Cymbeline" at the Public Theatre in New York. She was Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and was directed by Joanne Akalitis in '"Tis a Pity She's a Whore."
On television, Cusack was a regular on "Saturday Night Live" during the show's 1985-86 season. She also appeared with Anne Bancroft in the BBC production of Paddy Chayefsky's "The Mother."
Cusack studied acting at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston, Illinois where she grew up. While at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she appeared with The Ark, an improv group. She graduated with a degree in English. Cusack is currently developing a television sitcom to be shot in Chicago that James L. Brooks will executive produce.
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