SIMONE

CATHERINE KEENER, aside from her role as studio chief, mother and ex-wife of neurotic disillusioned director Viktor Taransky in SIMONE, Catherine recently appeared as a vice president of development in Danny DeVito's Death to Smoochy, with Robin Williams and Edward Norton.

Keener can also be seen this summer in Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing, co-starring Dermot Mulroney, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer and Jake Gyllenhaal and Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal, co-starring Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, David Hyde Pierce and Mary McCormack.

Keener received an Academy Award® nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Maxine, the manipulative co-worker who seduces the puppeteer, his wife and the title character in Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich. Later this year, she makes a cameo appearance in Jonze's Adaptation.

Keener's film credits also include Neil LaBute's Your Friends and Neighbors, Soderbergh's Out of Sight, Holofcener's Walking and Talking and the screen adaptation of Sam Shepard's Simpatico. She appeared in four films by Tom DiCillo: Box of Moonlight, Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion and The Real Blonde.

On television, Keener appeared in HBO's critically acclaimed anthology, "If These Walls Could Talk," directed by Nancy Savoca, and made a notable guest appearance on "Seinfeld."

This fall, she co-stars with Edward Norton in the Signature Theater Company's off-Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This."