Joan Allen was born on August 20,1956 and is an American actress.
24 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, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, 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 attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed.
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Joan Allen first attended Eastern Illinois University, performing in a few plays with John Malkovich, who was a student, and then Northern Illinois University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater.
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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 received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Pat Nixon in Nixon and as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft, in The Crucible.
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Joan Allen was nominated for Best Actress for her role in The Contender, in which she played a politician who becomes the object of scandal.
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In 2001, Joan Allen starred in the mini-series The Mists of Avalon on TNT and earned an Primetime Emmy Award 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 Department 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 lent her voice talents 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.