Real name: Kathleen Brennan

Kathleen Brennan is the wife and musical collaborator of Tom Waits. She is also an American musician, songwriter, record producer and artist, born in Johnsburg, Illinois, as noted by 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, named American Zoetrope, as a script analyst.