As soon as the plane was out of sight, we'd strip off and plunge straight into the river. An assistant director stayed with me - Kátia Lund, who went on to co-direct City of God (2002) - and we had the greatest time. One evening, I'd had enough, so I strung up my hammock and refused to budge. In Brazil, we were shooting a long speedboat ride up the river, flying in and out to our jungle location every day from a Holiday Inn in the smoggy chaos of Belem city, crew piled into a rickety 1940s pontoon plane. I'd lived in a cave in Greece for three months as a teenager, filming Summer Lovers (1982), so knew I had the wild girl in me. One of my happiest memories is of filming At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991), in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. She is a member of the World Future Council, sits on the boards of the Sylvia Earle Alliance, Mission Blue, Eco America, Environmental Media Association (EMA), The Somaly Mam Foundation, and the Action Sports Environmental Coalition, She is the founder of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance (SBA). There are daily news updates, alerts, community and access to goods and services. The site features weekly five-minute inspirational video blogs which Daryl produces and films. She has written articles on self sufficiency and sustainability for many magazines and has done a plethora of interviews on the topic in thousands of publications. Her many speaking engagements include keynote speeches at the UN Climate Change Summit, UN Global Business Conference on the environment, Natural and Organic Products Expo, LOHAS and numerous national and international universities, conferences and events. Hannah has been a greening consultant for events such as the Virgin Music Festival, attended by over 150,000 people. She has produced, hosted and shot numerous environmental awareness/ health documentaries, TV appearances and is a frequent speaker on both the conservative and progressive news. Daryl has been passionate, committed and effective advocate for a more ethical relationship with each other and all life on the Planet. She designed (online since 2005) her website dedicated to sharing solutions on how to live more harmoniously with the planet and all other living things. She has made over 40 video blogs for various websites including her popular. Daryl is in the process of shooting a documentary on Human Trafficking and has traveled undercover to South East Asia to document this atrocity and has become and advocates raising awareness and ending slavery. Hannah also directed, produced and shot the documentary Strip Notes (2002) which was inspired while researching her role for Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) that was shown on HBO and UK's Channel 4. Daryl starred in the experimental improvised Michael Radford film Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) and made As a filmmaker, Hannah wrote, directed, and produced an award winning short film, entitled The Last Supper (1995). She worked on several films with the revered Robert Altman, including The Gingerbread Man (1998), as well as several films with the Polish Brothers including Northfork (2003) and Jackpot (2001). Hannah has been a consistent, strong supporter of independent cinema, both acting in and producing many films, starring in such indie films as John Sayles's Casa de los babys (2003) as well as his political satire Silver City (2004). Hannah played Roxanne in the eponymous Steve Martins contemporary take on the Cyrano de Bergerac story, and co-starred as Elle Driver in Quintin Tarantino's box office hit Kill Bill: Vol. Showing her versatility, from there she portrayed a mermaid, Madison, who falls in love with Tom Hanks's character in Ron Howard's zany comedy Splash (1984), and a Cro-Magnon in The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986). Daryl's breakout role was as the acrobatic, beautiful replicant punk android Pris in Blade Runner (1982) Pris was the vixen who wanted to live beyond her allotted years and risked the wrath of the title character. She started with small roles, such as a student in The Fury (1978) and as Kim Basinger's kid sister in Hard Country (1981). Hannah, a tall (5' 10") blond beauty, with haunting blue-green eyes, was a natural for show biz. In her twenties, she played keyboard and sang backup for Jackson Browne. She practiced ballet with Maria Tallchief and studied drama at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. Daryl graduated from the University of Southern California School of Theatre. She has Scottish, Norwegian, Danish, Irish, English, and German ancestry. Her siblings are Page Hannah, Don Hannah and Tanya Wexler. Her stepfather was music journalist/promoter Jerrold Wexler. She is the daughter of Susan Jeanne (Metzger), a schoolteacher and later a producer, and Donald Christian Hannah, who owned a tugboat/barge company. Daryl Christine Hannah was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
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