If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

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Filmography. Keener's first film appearance was one line in About Last Night. Keener attended Wheaton College in Norton Massachusetts where Catherine Keener lived with an aunt in order to save on room and board feeling out of place among her more privileged peers.

She has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005). She also appeared in the critically acclaimed Into the Wild.