Joan Cusack

Joan Mary Cusack (/ˈkjuːsæk/; born October 11, 1962)[2] is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the romantic comedy-drama Working Girl (1988) and the romantic comedy In & Out (1997), as well as one Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the latter. She is also the voice of Jessie in the Toy Story franchise.
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 Shameless as Sheila Gallagher (née Jackson), a role for which she has received five consecutive Emmy Awardnominations, winning for the first time in 2015. She is the sister of actress Ann Cusackand actor John Cusack.
== Early life ==
Cusack was born on October 11, 1962 in New York City, New York, and was raised in Evanston, Illinois.[3] Her mother, Ann Paula "Nancy" (née Carolan), is a former mathematics teacher and political activist.[4][5][6] Her father, Dick Cusack(1925–2003), was an actor and filmmaker, and two of her four siblings, Ann(born 1961) and John (born 1966), are actors. Her family is Irish American and Catholic.[7] Cusack is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin–Madison(1984).[8]
== Career ==
Cusack has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Working Girl and In & Out. She has appeared with her brother John in 10 movies: Class (1983), Sixteen Candles (1984), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Broadcast News (1987), Say Anything... (1989), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), High Fidelity (2000), Martian Child (2007), and War, Inc. (2008).
In the film Addams Family Values, she played serial divorcee and murderer Debbie Jellinsky. She also starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom What About Joan? in 2001–02 and the hit film Arlington Road. For many years, Cusack was also the commercial spokeswoman for U.S. Cellular. One of Cusack's most well-known roles was the principal of Horace Green Elementary School, Rosalie 'Roz' Mullins, in School of Rock. She also voiced Jessie in Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3, and played Dr. Burton, the therapist of Charlie (Logan Lerman), in the teen film The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).
Cusack was a cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. Her recurring characters on SNL included Salena, a socially inept girl who tries to ask out her boyfriend, Biff (played by Jon Lovitz), who is also socially inept. In addition, she did celebrity impersonations of Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, and Queen Elizabeth II.
She has been nominated four times for the American Comedy Award in the category of Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture and has won three times, for Runaway Bride (1999), In & Out (1997), and Working Girl (1988). She has also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for In & Out.
Cusack narrates the public-TV animated series Peep and the Big Wide World. In September 2010, Cusack guest-starred on NBC's Law & Order: SVU.[9]
=== Shameless ===
In 2010, Cusack joined the Showtime drama/comedy Shameless as Sheila Gallagher (née Jackson) the mother of Karen Jackson (Laura Slade Wiggins). The first season premiered on January 9, 2011, and had its first finale March 27, 2011. Cusack replaced actress Allison Janney, who originally portrayed the role in the first edit of the pilot episode, but was forced to drop out of the part owing to her series regular commitment on the ABC comedy Mr. Sunshine. Janney took the role with the understanding the character would be less prominent on the show, but when producers decided to increase the character's screen presence, she was forced to pull out of the part. Cusack has received critical acclaim for her performance, receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series nominations in 2011, 2012, and 2013, as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 and 2015, winning in the later year.
== Personal life ==
Cusack married attorney Richard Burke, President and CEO of Envoy Global, Inc. in 1996. They have two sons: Dylan John (b. 1997) and Miles (b. 2000). She discovered she was pregnant with her first son, Dylan, 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.
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1980	Cutting Loose 	 	
1980	My Bodyguard 	Shelley 	
1983	Class 	Julia 	
1984	Sixteen Candles 	Geek Girl #1 	
1984	Grandview, U.S.A. 	Mary Maine 	
1987	The Allnighter 	Gina 	
1987	Broadcast News 	Blair Litton 	
1988	Stars and Bars 	Irene Stein 	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
1988	Married to the Mob 	Rose 	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
1988	Working Girl 	Cyn 	American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1989	Say Anything... 	Constance Dobler 	
1990	Men Don't Leave 	Jody 	
1990	My Blue Heaven 	Hannah Stubs 	
1991	The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez 	Cathy 	
1992	Accidental Hero 	Evelyn Laplante 	
1992	Toys 	Alsatia Zevo 	
1993	Addams Family Values 	Debbie Jellinsky 	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1994	Corrina, Corrina 	Jonesy 	
1995	Nine Months 	Gail Dwyer 	Nominated—American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
1995	Two Much 	Gloria 	
1996	Mr. Wrong 	Inga Gunther 	
1997	Grosse Pointe Blank 	Marcella Mayes 	Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress
1997	A Smile Like Yours 	Nancy Tellen 	
1997	In & Out 	Emily Montgomery 	American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress (2nd place)
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
Society of Texas Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress – Comedy
Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1999	Arlington Road 	Cheryl Lang 	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1999	Cradle Will Rock 	Hazel Huffman 	
1999	Runaway Bride 	Peggy Flemming 	American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actress – Comedy/Romance
1999	Toy Story 2 	Jessie(voice) 	Annie Award for Voice Acting in a Feature Production
Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Film – Choice Hissy Fit
2000	High Fidelity 	Liz 	
2000	Where the Heart Is 	Ruth Meyers 	
2002	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie 	Rachel Bitterman 	
2003	School of Rock 	Rosalie Mullins 	
2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action 	Mother 	
2004	Raising Helen 	Jenny Portman 	
2004	The Last Shot 	Fanny Nash 	
2005	Ice Princess 	Joan Carlyle 	
2005	Chicken Little 	Abby Mallard (voice) 	
2006	Friends with Money 	Franny 	
2007	Martian Child 	Liz Gordon 	
2008	War, Inc. 	Marsha Dillon 	
2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 	Miss Lucinda Bond 	
2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic 	Jane Bloomwood 	
2009	My Sister's Keeper 	Judge De Salvo 	
2009	Acceptance 	Nina Rockefeller 	
2010	Toy Story 3 	Jessie (voice) 	
2011	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil 	Verushka (voice) 	
2011	Mars Needs Moms 	Milo's Mom (voice) 	Also motion-capture
2011	Hawaiian Vacation 	Jessie (voice) 	Short film
2011	Small Fry 	Jessie (voice) 	Short film
2011	Arthur Christmas 	Mission Control Elf (voice)	
2012	Partysaurus Rex 	Jessie (voice) 	Short film
2012	The Perks of Being a Wallflower 	Dr. Burton 	
2014	Welcome to Me 	Dawn Hurley 	
2015	The End of the Tour 	Patty Gunderson 	
2015	Freaks of Nature 	Peg Parker 	
2016	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping 	Tilly Friel 	
2017	Snatched 	Barb 	
2017	Unicorn Store 	Gladys 	
2019	Disney In The House: Off To Adventure Camp	Jessie (voice) 	
2019	Toy Story 4 	Jessie (voice) 	
2021	The Jessie Movie 	Jessie (voice) 	
2021	The Lego Worlds Movie 	Paleontologist (voice) 	
2024	Kenny Tactic: Shape Retold 	Penny Weaver (voice) 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1985–1986	Saturday Night Live 	Various Characters 	17 episodes
2001–2002	What About Joan? 	Joan Gallagher 	21 episodes
2004–2011	Peep and the Big Wide World 	Narrator (voice) 	55 episodes
Nominated—Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program
2010 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Pamela Burton 	Episode: "Locum"
2011–2015	Shameless 	Sheila Gallagher (née Jackson)	44 episodes
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2015) 
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2011–2013) 
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (2014)
2011 	Phineas and Ferb 	Glenda Wilkins (voice) 	Episode: "Last Train to Bustville"
2013 	The Office 	Erin's Biological Mother 	Episode: "Finale"
2013 	Toy Story of Terror! 	Jessie(voice) 	Television special
2014 	Toy Story That Time Forgot 	Jessie(voice) 	Television special
2016 	The Stinky & Dirty Show 	Red (voice) 	3 episodes
2017 	A Series of Unfortunate Events 	Justice Strauss 	2 episodes (The Bad Beginning P1 and P2)
2017 	The Christmas Train 	Agnes 	Television film
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