1. Joan Allen was born on August 20,1956 and is an American actress.
31 Facts About Joan Allen
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Joan Allen began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for And a Nightingale Sang, and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This.
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Joan Allen is a three-time Academy Award nominee, receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon and The Crucible, and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender.
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Joan Allen won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2015 film Room.
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Joan Allen has starred in the Broadway plays The Heidi Chronicles, Impressionism, and The Waverly Gallery.
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Joan Allen was born on August 20,1956 in Rochelle, Illinois.
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Joan Allen is the daughter of Dorothea Marie, a homemaker, and James Jefferson Joan Allen, a gas station owner.
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Joan Allen has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn.
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Joan Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie Compromising Positions.
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Joan Allen became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1977 when John Malkovich asked her to join.
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In 1989, Joan Allen won a Tony Award for her Broadway debut performance in Burn This opposite Malkovich.
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Joan Allen starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, with Boyd Gaines at the Plymouth Theatre.
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Joan Allen received her second Tony Award nomination for her performance.
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Joan Allen emerges as strong-willed and clear-eyed, a truth-teller who sees through Nixon's masks and evasions.
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That same year Joan Allen acted in the teen romantic drama Mad Love.
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Joan Allen acted opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in the Nicholas Hytner directed film based on the Arthur Miller 1953 play of the same name.
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Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly hailed Allen's performance writing, "It's Joan Allen who carries the weight of the film's sorrow, eyes glistening with woe as she delivers the heartbreaking confession to her husband".
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Joan Allen received the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Joan Allen acted opposite Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Elijah Wood, Christina Ricci, and Tobey Maguire.
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In 1998 Joan Allen starred in the Gary Ross-directed fantasy comedy-drama Pleasantville.
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Joan Allen acted alongside Jeff Daniels, Reese Witherspoon, and Tobey Maguire.
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Joe Leydon of Variety wrote, "Joan Allen is equally effective in her subtle transformation from docile Stepford Wife to yearning free spirit".
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In 2001, Joan Allen starred in the mini-series The Mists of Avalon on TNT and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination for the role.
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Joan Allen starred as Rachel McAdams mother in the 2004 movie The Notebook.
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Joan Allen played CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy.
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In 2009, Joan Allen starred as Georgia O'Keeffe in Lifetime Television's 2009 biopic chronicling the artist's life.
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Joan Allen returned to Broadway after a twenty-year absence in March 2009, when she played the role of Katherine Keenan in Michael Jacobs' play Impressionism opposite Jeremy Irons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
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Joan Allen voiced the character Delphine in Bethesda Softworks' 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Joan Allen voiced Deborah in the Thomas Nelson audio Bible production known as The Word of Promise.
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In 2015, Joan Allen signed for the leading role in the ABC drama series The Family, playing the role of villainous and manipulative mayor and matriarch of her family.
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David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter praised Joan Allen's performance writing, "Joan Allen in a standout performance of tremendous raw feeling and sorrow".