Name |
Ann Cusack |
Height |
5' 8½" |
Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
22 May 1961 |
Place of Birth |
Brooklyn, New York, USA |
Famous for |
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Ann Cusack's feature-film credits include America's Sweethearts, What Planet Are You From? Stigmata, Multiplicity, The Birdcage, A League of Their Own and Gross Pointe Blank, among others.
Her television credits include the series Family Law, Murder, She Wrote and Love and War, all on CBS, Frasier, Miracles, Enterprise, What About Joan, Ally McBeal, Maggie, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Boomtown, The Jackie Thomas Show and Overexposed. She appeared in the television movies My Sister's Keeper, on CBS, and Victim of Love, as well as the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon.
Cusack was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois. She is the sister of actors John, Joan, Bill and Susie Cusack and the daughter of the late producer-writer-actor Dick Cusack. Starting at the age of nine, she trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University and studied voice at Berklee College of Music.
Cusack was the founding member of the a cappella group Acme Vocals, worked in arts administration for over 15 years and cofounded and served as executive director of the nonprofit Arts Expand, which designed creative workshops and theater programs for organizations that serve at-risk and emotionally and/or physically abused children and young adults. Cusack sings with her band, Blues Adjacent.