Hope Davis

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Hope Davis
Hope Davis in The Daytrippers
Born	March 23, 1964 (age 43) Englewood, New Jersey, USA

Hope Davis (born March 23, 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films including About Schmidt, Flatliners, Mumford, American Splendor and Next Stop Wonderland. She played Slim Keith in the 2006 film Infamous.

[edit] Life and work

Davis is a graduate of Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, and was a childhood friend of Mira Sorvino, with whom she wrote and acted in backyard plays.

Davis majored in cognitive science at Vassar College, but then became an actress in independent films such as The Daytrippers (1995) and Next Stop Wonderland (1998). These led her to roles in Hollywood films such as the thriller Arlington Road (1999), and About Schmidt (2002), in which she played Jack Nicholson's daughter. In 2003 she starred opposite Paul Giamatti in the movie adaptation of the Harvey Pekar comic American Splendor as the comic book version of Pekar's real-life wife, Joyce Brabner.

[edit] Selected filmography

• Six Degrees (2006) (TV series)
• Infamous (2006)
• Proof (2005)
• Duma (2005)
• The Matador (2005)
• The Weather Man (2005)
• American Splendor (2003)
• The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)
• About Schmidt (2002)
• Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
• Mumford (1999)
• Arlington Road (1999)
• Next Stop Wonderland (1998)
• The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
• The Daytrippers (1996)
• Kiss of Death (1995)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Flatliners (1990)

[edit] External links

• Hope Davis at the Internet Movie Database
• Hope Davis's page at Yahoo Movies