American author and actress (born 1972)

Ruthanna Khalighi Hopper (born December 5, 1972) is an American author and actress. She has acted for both film and television. In 2005, she produced and starred in the independent film Americano.

Contents

• 1 Family
• 2 Biography
• 3 Filmography
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Family

A member of the Hopper family, her father was Dennis Hopper. Her half-sister is Marin Hopper.

Biography

Hopper was born in Taos, New Mexico, the daughter of actor Dennis Hopper and actress Daria Halprin, and grew up in Marin County, California. She describes her upbringing as "bohemian". She has three paternal half-siblings (two sisters, one brother) and a maternal half-sibling (brother) with whom she was raised in Marin County. Hopper studied acting in New York and went on to have roles in a number of feature films, including indie film Americano, in which she co-starred with her father, Dennis Hopper.

In 2008, she co-wrote Celebutantes with Amanda Goldberg, daughter of producer Leonard Goldberg. The novel became a New York Times bestseller. In 2011, the follow-up novel Beneath a Starlet Sky was published by St. Martin's Press.

Filmography

• Coming Soon (1999) – Intense woman
• Jack & Jill, episode "Fear and Loathing in Gotham" (1999)
• Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) – Desiree
• Crossing Cords (2001) – Sally
• Buying the Cow (2002) – Lisa
• Americano (2005) – Michelle (Hopper was also producer)
• The Talk (2011) – as herself

References

External links

• Ruthanna Hopper at IMDb