She starred in the title role of Fred SchepisiвЂ™s 1987 film Roxanne, a modern retelling of Edmond RostandвЂ™s play Cyrano de Bergerac. The next year, she appeared in the Academy Award-winning Wall Street, for which she received a Razzie Award.

HannahвЂ™s roles in the remainder of the 1980s ranged from 1986вЂ™s film version of the bestseller The Clan of the Cave Bear to Legal Eagles. She also appeared in the video for BrowneвЂ™s вЂњTender Is the NightвЂќ. In 1985, Hannah appeared in and provided backing vocals in the music video вЂњYouвЂ™re a Friend of MineвЂќ, performed by Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne. Also in 1984, she appeared in The Pope of Greenwich Village, with co-stars Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts.

She then was cast as a mermaid in Ron HowardвЂ™s 1984 fantasy Splash, which starred Tom Hanks. That same year she appeared in the summer hit release Summer Lovers. Hannah played the acrobatic and violent replicant Pris in Ridley ScottвЂ™s science fiction classic Blade Runner in 1982, in which she performed some of her own gymnastic stunts. The film was released in 1983 to capitalize on HannahвЂ™s blossoming career. She turned down many roles early in her career (which ones?) She also had an early role along with Rachel Ward in the 1983 horror film The Final Terror which was shot in the Redwood Forests in 1981. CareerДaryl Hannah made her film debut in 1978 with an appearance in Brian De PalmaвЂ™s horror film The Fury. Parker School (where she played on the soccer team) in Chicago before enrolling at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she studied ballet and acting. Hannah later attended the progressive Francis W. Instead, her mother decided to relocate with Hannah temporarily to Jamaica, in hopes that the change in environment would help her daughter.

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