1. Joan Maxine Kupchik, known professionally as Joan Copeland, was an American actress.
14 Facts About Joan Copeland
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Joan Copeland was the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller.
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Joan Copeland began her career during the mid-1940s, appearing in theatre in New York City, where, shortly thereafter, she would become one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio.
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Joan Copeland moved into television and film during the 1950s while still maintaining an active stage career.
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Joan Copeland is best known for her performances in the 1977 Broadway revival of Pal Joey and her award-winning performance in the 1981 play The American Clock.
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Joan Copeland played a number of prominent roles on various soap operas throughout her career, including Andrea Whiting on Search for Tomorrow and Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on One Life to Live.
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Joan Copeland was the younger sister of Kermit Miller and playwright Arthur Miller and was briefly sister-in-law to Marilyn Monroe, with whom she shared a birthday.
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Joan Copeland was married to George J Kupchik, an engineer, from 1946 until his death in 1989.
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Joan Copeland began her career in the theatre, making her professional debut as Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1945.
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Joan Copeland made her Broadway debut as Nadine in the original 1948 production of Bessie Breuer's Sundown Beach.
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Joan Copeland won an Obie Award in 1991 for her portrayal of Eva Adler in The American Plan at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
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Joan Copeland began working in television in the early 1950s as a guest actress on such shows as Suspense and The Web and on the live telecast of O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh in 1960.
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Joan Copeland portrayed Andrea Whiting on Search for Tomorrow, twin sisters Maggie and Kay Logan on Love of Life, and roles on The Edge of Night, How to Survive a Marriage, and As the World Turns.
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Joan Copeland made her first film appearance as Alice Marie in The Goddess.