13 Facts About Joan Hackett

Joan Ann Hackett was an American actress of film, stage, and television.

Joan Hackett was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1981 film Only When I Laugh.

Joan Hackett starred as Christine Mannon in the 1978 PBS miniseries version of Mourning Becomes Electra.

Joan Hackett was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the daughter of John and Mary Hackett, and grew up in Elmhurst, Queens, where she became a model and dropped out during her final year of high school.

Joan Hackett had a sister, Theresa, and a brother, John.

Joan Hackett's mother was from Naples, Italy, and her father had Irish ancestry, and they raised her Catholic and sent her to Catholic schools.

Joan Hackett appeared regularly in scenes with both lead actors.

Joan Hackett had a leading role in The Twilight Zone episode "A Piano in the House".

Joan Hackett received top billing in the 1974 adaption of Michael Crichton's book The Terminal Man, where she played the brilliant Dr Janet Ross, a psychiatrist who accurately predicts her patient's destructive behavior, opposite actors George Segal, Donald Moffat, and Richard Dysart.

Joan Hackett appeared in the September 22,1979, episode "Grass Is Always Greener" of The Love Boat as Julie McCoy's former classmate from the line's cruise director course.

Joan Hackett won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1981 film Only When I Laugh, the last film she made before her death.

Joan Hackett could be seen in Paul Simon's 1980 film One Trick Pony.

Joan Hackett died of ovarian cancer on October 8,1983, at Encino Hospital in Encino, California.