Joan Cusack
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"Joan Cusack" is an American actress. She received Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress/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 has appeared in other films such as the romantic comedy-drama Broadcast News (film)/Broadcast News (1987), the comedies Stars and Bars (1988 film)/Stars and Bars and Married to the Mob (both 1988), the romantic comedy-drama Say Anything... (1989), the dark comedy Addams Family Values (1993), the mystery thriller film Arlington Road (1999), the romantic comedy Runaway Bride (film)/Runaway Bride (1999), the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003), voicing in the computer-animated comedy adventure film Toy Story 2 (1999) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

Cusack was a cast member on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1986. Cusack currently stars on the Showtime (TV channel)/Showtime hit Drama (genre)/drama/Comedy (genre)/comedy Shameless (U.S. TV series)/Shameless as Sheila Jackson, a role for which she has received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards/Emmy Award nominations.

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Peep and the Big Wide World.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

You don't have to make $20 million every time you make a movie.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's not really about money. It's about being centered. Money is kind of a symbol of how you are in your life and how you're going to be centered.

Well, we're all actresses. We've got that going. We're all gals in our late thirties and early forties, and Frances McDormand and Catherine Keener have kids, and the director has kids, so we all have that, you know, and then everyone's kind of their own kind of person. It was fun for me to be around other actresses that were interesting, because I don't get that.

I'm taking the time to figure it out and making sure I'm with my son in the morning, and I'm getting him breakfast before he goes to school. It just takes a lot of energy, but doing a television show is such a great life for an actor, and that's why I wanted to do it, because it's hard if every time you work you have to go to a different city, when you don't live and work in the same place.

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.