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On two occasions she has run after and captured muggers in New York City. Both men displayed mixed emotions when they realized who was sitting on their chests, holding them for police.
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A story on America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back in 1988 showed how she goes undercover to help rescue children as young as 6 from brothels in Bangkok.
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As a child, she was so shy that she was diagnosed as borderline autistic. Even today, she says she likes to sit in a corner and observe people.
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She suffers from agoraphobia, a fear of open spaces, which she kept secret for many years fearing it might ruin her acting career.
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She is missing part of her left hand index finger due to a childhood accident when her finger got caught in a pulley. She sometimes uses a prosthetic finger in movies.
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She was in a serious relationship with John Kennedy Jr. for several years, but never married due to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s disapproval. She has also dated Warren Beatty, Jackson Browne, Val Kilmer, and Brad Renfro.
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On June 13, 2006, she was forcibly removed from a walnut tree on a South Central Los Angeles community farm where she had stayed for 23 days to protest the sale of the farm. Forty other protesters were arrested.
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In a February 2010 Guardian interview, she stated that her favorite role was Pris in Blade Runner from 1982 and her low points were movies done just for cash that went straight to video.
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Her childhood interest in movies grew out of a lifelong battle with insomnia.
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Since there was no girls’ soccer team at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, she played on the boys’ team.
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The box-office performance of Splash in 1984 helped greenlight Disney’s animated feature The Little Mermaid in 1989. Because her character was blonde, the filmmakers gave Ariel red hair.
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She was considered for the role of Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction in 1994, but Uma Thurman was cast instead.
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As a keen environmentalist, Daryl lives off solar power and drives a car that runs on recycled fast food grease.
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Empire magazine ranked her 96th on its list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
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In September 2013, Forbes magazine reported that she had been diagnosed in childhood as having autism. Medical professionals recommended she be institutionalized and medicated.
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She auditioned for the role of Emmeline Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon in 1980, which went to Brooke Shields.
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She married her boyfriend of 4 years Neil Young on his yacht in Washington State. The news was not made public until late August.
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She attended the 2005 Gumball 3000 car race with Tina Basich, driving a pink Range Rover Hybrid that used biodiesel made from cooking oil.
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She attended and graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre.
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McCall’s placed her on its 10 Best Female Bodies In America list in 1984.
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She produces a green vlog called dhlovelife.com focusing on healthy living, renewable energy, and sustainable farming. The site is defunct and for sale as of April 28, 2019.
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She is portrayed by Tara Chocol in America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story in 2003.
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She turned down the role of Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman in 1990 because she felt it denigrated women, but later appeared as a stripper in Dancing at the Blue Iguana in 2000.
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The 1982 film Blade Runner has been selected for the National Film Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
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She was listed as one of twelve Promising New Actors of 1984 in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 36.
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She signed environmental activist Tom Weis’ open letter calling on President Obama and Governor Romney to withdraw support for the Keystone XL pipeline. Other signatories included climate scientist James Hansen and actors Sheryl Lee and Mariel Hemingway.
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In 2010-2011, she supported Tom Weis’ Ride for Renewables to promote renewable energy.
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Her parents are Donald Christian Hannah and Susan Jeanne Metzger Vanderburg.
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On May 14, 2011, she attended the iMatter March against climate change in Denver, Colorado.
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She endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
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She is good friends with John Corbett and Hilary Shepard.
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She has three step-children: Zeke Young, Ben Young, and Amber Jean Young.
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She is the sister of Page Hannah and Don Hannah, and maternal half-sister of Tanya Wexler.
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She is sister-in-law of Lou Adler.
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She has appeared in two movies filmed in Santa Barbara County, California: My Favorite Martian in 1999 and Cowboy Up in 2001.
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She is stepniece of Haskell Wexler and Yale Wexler, and stepdaughter of Jerrold Wexler.
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She was born at 3:30 PM Central Standard Time.
