Kathleen Brennan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Kathleen Patricia Brennan is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and artist. She was born in Johnsburg, Illinois — as noted by her husband and musical collaborator Tom Waits, in the song of the same name. Brennan and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart. Waits was composing the original soundtrack for the film, while Brennan worked at the film's studio, American Zoetrope, as a script analyst.Waits said in a March 31, 1998 radio interview with Chris Douridas on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic: "We met on New Year's Eve at a party in Hollywood. I was leaving the next day. I was moving to New York City and I was never coming back here to the Los Angeles area ever again. That was what I said. But I'd said that before. So we met on New Year's and then I left. I was gone for about four months and then I got a call to do One from the Heart. I came back and I got a little office with a piano in it and I was writing songs and Kathleen was working at Zoetrope. She was a story analyst. Somebody told her to go down and knock on my door and she did and I opened the door and there she was and that was it. That was it for me. Love at first sight. Love at second sight." They were married on August 10, 1980, reportedly at the Wee Kirk In The Heather Chapel in Las Vegas.Waits describes his wife as "a remarkable collaborator, and she's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck. Expert on the African violet and all that. She's outta this world. I don't know what to say. I'm a lucky man. She has a remarkable imagination. And that's the nation where I live. She's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you."Brennan is credited as a co-writer and collaborator on numerous songs and projects written since her marriage to Waits and is credited with introducing him to the music of Captain Beefheart. She is generally regarded as the catalyst for Waits' more experimental sound beginning with the album Swordfishtrombones. Waits has said: "She doesn't like the limelight, but she's an incandescent presence on all songs we work on together."Brennan contributed one of her paintings to the sleeve insert for Waits' album The Black Rider.Brennan and Waits live in northern California with their three children: daughter Kellesimone (b. 1983) and sons Casey (b. 1985) and Sullivan (b. 1993).Brennan was also a judge for the 9th and 10th annual The Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.Brennan's grandfather was from County Kerry in Ireland. Waits and Brennan honeymooned in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland.
She and Waits met in 1980 during the filming of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart (1981). Waits was composing the original soundtrack for the film along with vocal accompanist Crystal Gayle. Kathleen worked at the film's Zoetrope Studio as a script analyst.
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Kathleen is the girl eulogized on husband Tom Waits' album Swordfishtrombones in the song entitled "Johnsburg, Illinois" (1983) which is her birthplace and where she was raised. As a writer herself, she became a huge influence in his music, as well as a collaborator, in many of his 1980s and 1990s projects
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Shrek 2
2004
writer: "Little Drop of Poison" 1997
The Big Empty
2003
writer: "WALK AWAY"
The United States of Leland
2003
writer: "Diamond in Your Mind"
Gilmore Girls
2002
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Last Castle
2001
writer: "Get Behind the Mule"
Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams
2000
Video documentary writer: "Strange Weather"
Pollock
2000
writer: "The World Keeps Turning"
Condo Painting
2000
Documentary writer: "Black Wings"
Liberty Heights
1999
writer: "Halloween Strip", "It's Over"
Fight Club
1999
writer: "Goin' Out West"
Jerry and Tom
1998
writer: "Dirt In The Ground
The End of Violence
1997
writer: "Little Drop of Poison"
The Good Life
1996
"I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
Basquiat
1996
writer: "Who Are You This Time"
Ed
1996
writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
Late Show with David Letterman
1996
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Top of the Pops
1995
TV Series writer - 1 episode
American Heart
1992
writer: "I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand", "Jack's Flashback Theme" and "Additional Music"
Night on Earth
1991
writer: "Back in the Good Old World", "Good Old World"
The X-Files
2016
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Lifers
2014
Short writer: "Chicago"
A Most Wanted Man
2014
writer: "Hoist That Rag"
The Armstrong Lie
2013
Documentary writer: "Long Way Home"
The Walking Dead
2013
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Bunheads
2012
TV Series writer - 1 episode
I'm Still Here
2010/I
writer: "All The World Is Green"
Miral
2010
writer: "Down There By The Train", "Lost In The Harbour"
American Carnival
2008
Documentary writer: "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"
Jef
2008
Short writer: "Alice"
Idiots and Angels
2008
writer: "Kommienezuspadt", "Flowers Grave"
Beautiful Losers
2008
Documentary writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up"
Medicine for Melancholy
2008
writer: "Lie To Me"
Live from Austin Tx: Norah Jones
2008
Video documentary writer: "Long Way Home"
The Last International Playboy
2008
writer: "I don't want to grow up"
Mama's Boy
2007
writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up"
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
as K. Brennan, "All The World Is Green", "Green Grass"
Wristcutters: A Love Story
2006
writer: "Dead and Lovely"
The Ground Truth
2006
Documentary writer: "Day After Tomorrow"
La tigre e la neve
2005
writer: "You Can Never Hold Back Spring"
Domino
2005
writer: "Cold Cold Ground"
Embedded
2005
Video writer: "Day After Tomorrow"
The Secret Life of Words
2005
writer: "All the World Is Green"
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Documentary writer: "God's Away on Business"
Independent Lens
2005
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Ramones Raw
2004
Documentary writer: "I Don't Want to Grow Up"
Yes
2004/I
writer: "FAWN"
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Big Time
1988
Documentary writer
Sleepwalk
1986
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
La tigre e la neve
2005
composer: song "You Can Never Hold Back Spring"
Up to Date
1989
composer: theme song "Strange Weather"
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bunny
1998
Short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sleepwalk
1986
producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sun Don't Shine
2012
special thanks
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
special thanks
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005
Documentary special thanks
Independent Lens
2005
TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode
The Dream Studio
2004
Video documentary short special thanks
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
David
David di Donatello Awards
Best Song (Migliore Canzone)
La tigre e la neve (2005)
Known for movies
Fight Club (1999) as Soundtrack
Shrek 2 (2004) as Soundtrack
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) as Thanks