John Cusack’s 4 Siblings: All About Ann, Joan, Susie and Bill

John Cusack has shared the screen with his one brother and three sisters

John Cusack and his siblings — Ann, Joan, Bill and Susie — have acting in their veins.

After getting their start in theater while growing up in Chicago, each sibling found success in performing arts. Ann had her breakout role in A League of Their Own and has since been in films like Multiplicity and Sully.

Meanwhile, Joan starred in classics like School of Rock, The Addams Family Values and the Toy Story franchise. She also garnered Oscar nominations for her roles in Working Girl and In & Out, in addition to winning an Emmy for her role in Shameless.

When John's career in Hollywood took off in the '80s, he shared the screen with Joan, and they later folded in their brother Bill and youngest sister Susie. The group appeared in several projects together, including Con Air, Hero and High Fidelity.

Over the years, John has spoken about what it's been like collaborating closely with his sisters and brothers, including Joan, with whom he has been in 10 movies. “I always love working with her,” he told CinemaBlend in 2007. “I can’t believe they still let us to do it.”

Here's everything to know about John Cusack’s siblings — Ann, Joan, Bill and Susie — and their relationship with the fellow actor.

They grew up in Chicago

The siblings’ parents, Richard "Dick" and Nancy Cusack, married in 1960 and lived in New York during the early years of their marriage.

While in the Empire State, the couple welcomed their first three children: Ann was born in 1961, followed by Joan in 1962 and Bill sometime later in 1964.

The family then moved to Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, where John was born in 1966, and Susie completed the group with her birth in 1971.

“They were both from the east coast: Boston and New York City,” Joan told The Guardian in 2011 about their mom and dad's roots, respectively. ”After they married, my dad's job brought them to Chicago for a couple of years, which they thought was a pretty good place to raise a family. So they were first-generation Chicagoans.”

The actress added, “My parents had five kids and we are all close. We were a traditional family. My mum didn't have a job, she was just raising kids. My dad went out to work."

They have childhood memories with their actor father

Dick was an award-winning advertising executive who eventually followed his passion for Hollywood, according to Variety.

In 1970, he embarked on a new chapter when he founded a film production company and wrote the documentary The Committee, which won an Emmy the following year. Dick went on to write several plays and starred in numerous movies, including The Fugitive, While You Were Sleeping and Return to Me.

By this point in his life, he had welcomed John and his siblings, the eldest of whom was about 10. In her 2011 interview with The Guardian, Joan reflected on her and her brothers and sisters growing up with a dad who didn't take himself too seriously.

"He was a really funny man, very silly. He loved comedy," she said. "We would watch Mel Brooks movies and Monty Python and he would always find some humor in everything."

Joan continued, "He made home movies of us, and he would show them in the backyard. He was great fun.”

Ann inspired John and their siblings to try theater

Speaking to the Chicago Tribune in 1992, Ann shared that she and her siblings enjoyed staging plays at home, sometimes with set roles. “I was always the director and always played the princess,” she quipped.

The Cusack kids seemed to be influenced by their father's drive to perform, and the family became more intertwined with acting, thanks to their friends Joyce and Byrne Piven, who founded the Piven Theater Workshop.

Ann was the first to take her talents on stage with the company at age 10, which inspired Joan, John and Susie to do the same.

"I was very shy but my sister Ann was involved in the theatre and I tagged along – that's how I got interested in drama," Joan told The Guardian in 2011.

She went on to explain how formative the experience was — and how it helped her and John be in “the right place at the right time” to meet John Hughes, who made movies like Sixteen Candles, in which they both had minor roles.

“It was great training because it was the ‘60s and all about theater games and humanizing people – the creative process,” Joan continued. "Then the director John Hughes came along ... and it just clicked. There's a lot of serendipity involved in both my brother John and I becoming actors."

Joan was the first to have an on-screen role

Joan was still in high school when she landed her first film role in the 1980 project My Bodyguard alongside her dad. Three years later, John made his movie debut in the dramedy Class, which Joan also starred in.

Ann didn’t have a role until years later, but it was a big one: Her first part was in the 1992 classic sports drama A League of Their Own.

"I just wanted to be able to do a great job and not be totally intimidated and overwhelmed by meeting Tom [Hanks] and Geena [Davis]," she told PEOPLE in 2022. "I was just trying to not make an a-- out of myself in front of all these people who I was starstruck with."

John and Joan have appeared in 10 movies together

There are few siblings who have been in as many movies together as John and Joan.

Apart from Class and Sixteen Candles, they also shared the screen for Grandview, U.S.A., Broadcast News, Grosse Pointe Blank, Cradle Will Rock, High Fidelity, Martian Child and War, Inc.

In the 1989 teen drama Say Anything..., John and Joan played siblings: She was the older sister with a young son, and he lived with them while finishing high school.

During an interview with CBS News in 2012, John opened up about what it was like working with his older sibling, and he jested that she rightfully takes the spotlight.

"I just give into the fact if I'm on screen with her she's going to run me over, so the scene's hers, so you just sort of give it to her because she's the one with all the talent in the family,” he told the outlet.

He has also cast her in some of his productions. “When I’m producing a movie, I know I can get her cheap,” John joked on Today in 2020. “I’ll take a script, and I leave it by her door, and I just say, ‘Read that, okay?’ ”

“Then she just comes on the set and, like Wile E. Coyote, just runs you over, and you’re just like a flat pancake,” John continued. “And everyone’s really happy. It’s usually the funniest scenes in the movie.”

John has collaborated with his other siblings several times

Although John and Joan might be the most recognized pair of siblings, the others have also worked with them at certain points in their careers.

The brother and sister were joined by Bill and Ann in Grosse Pointe Blank. The same year, John and Bill also starred in Con Air. Later on, John, Joan and Bill teamed up again for War, Inc. Then John and Ann shared the screen in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and America’s Sweethearts.

Susie made her film debut in 1992’s Hero alongside Joan and also had a part in High Fidelity with her and John. Even their father, Dick, appeared in movies with the siblings, including Class, High Fidelity and Eight Men Out.

Bill is still active in theater

When Bill and John were in their 20s, the brothers formed New Crime Productions, a small theatre group with friends Jeremy Piven and Steve Pink.

“I don’t believe in denying an audience entertainment,” John told the Chicago Reader in 1991. “We present more of a spectacle. We want theater to be fun and passionate.”

Bill had a role in the group’s production of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that year. While the article credits John, Piven and Pink with starting the group, Bill’s HuffPost bio identifies him as a founding member.

Bill is also a member of The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles. In 1999, he directed the group’s play Ugly’s First World. According to his HuffPost bio, he now writes promotions for a cable network.

Ann performs with a band

When she’s not acting in projects like Mr. Mercedes and Better Call Saul, Ann sings with Ann Cusack & the Generation Jones Band.

They perform “original R & B and classic blues songs, with help from Big Mama Thornton, Little Milton, B.B. King, Koko Taylor, and Mighty Sam McClain to name a few,” according to the band’s website.

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