47 Facts About Joan Harris

Joan P Holloway Harris is a fictional character on the AMC television series Mad Men.

Joan Harris has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series twice along with the cast of Mad Men.

From season 1 through season 3, Joan Harris is the office manager at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper.

Joan Harris is the original supervisor of Peggy Olson, who starts at Sterling Cooper as a secretary and eventually becomes a copywriter.

Joan Harris has many playful affairs with powerful men who adore her, but whom she discounts as marriage material.

Joan Harris had a lengthy romantic involvement with Roger Sterling, which started when she was his secretary, cooled when she rose to office manager, and ended after Roger's heart attack.

Sometime before the start of the series, Joan Harris was briefly married to a man named Scotty.

Joan Harris had had an intimate relationship with copywriter Paul Kinsey sometime before the series began.

Joan Harris ended the relationship because Paul had "a big mouth," implying that he bragged about the relationship to others.

In season 2, Joan becomes engaged to Greg Harris, a resident physician at St Luke's Hospital.

Joan Harris is in a difficult place when it comes to marrying Greg, as she struggles to balance both her sassy, independent personality and the traditional vulnerability of a woman being dependent on her husband.

Joan Harris chose Greg over the stereotypical rich men she has affairs with because he is handsome and a promising young doctor just about to launch his career as a surgeon.

Joan Harris turns out to be a poor choice, when his delicate ego, anger issues, and sense of entitlement clash with his utter lack of professional skill, preventing him from being either a successful husband, or a successful doctor.

Joan Harris introduces him to Roger for the first time, and Greg picks up on the fact that Roger knows Joan Harris's likes and dislikes.

Joan Harris helps Greg prepare for a job interview, but he fails to get the job.

Joan Harris is recognized by most of the staff as being integral in SCDP's daily operations.

Peggy eventually fires Joey, but Joan Harris doesn't thank her and tells her she did it for her own satisfaction.

Joan Harris continues with the pregnancy and lets Greg believe the child is his.

At the start of season 5, Joan Harris has recently given birth to a boy named Kevin and is nearing the end of her maternity leave from SCDP.

In "Mystery Date," Greg returns home on furlough from Vietnam, but informs Joan Harris he is being ordered to go back for an additional year.

However, at a dinner with Greg's parents, Joan Harris learns he reenlisted voluntarily since the army makes him feel powerful and it is likely the only place where his abysmal surgical skills would be accepted.

In "The Other Woman," Joan Harris is taken aback when Pete approaches her with a proposition to sleep with Herb Rennet in order to secure the Jaguar account for SCDP.

Joan Harris asks if all the partners are on board with this request, and Pete lies and says yes, even though Don objected, and that they are offering her $50,000.

Joan Harris agrees to the request on the condition she be made partner, as Lane suggested.

Joan Harris is closest compatriots with Lane, since they frequently work together on the practical running of the business, and commiserate on keeping the flighty creatives in check and under budget.

In "Commissions and Fees," Joan Harris discovers Lane's body after he dies by suicide in his office.

At the start of season 6, Joan Harris has settled into her new role as partner at SCDP.

In "To Have and To Hold," Joan Harris discovers that Harry Crane's secretary, Scarlet, has been having Dawn, Don's secretary, punch out her time cards.

Joan Harris implies that Joan made partner only because she prostituted herself, much to Joan's humiliation.

Kate expresses her admiration for Joan Harris, believing that Joan Harris's partnership has more power than it actually has.

In "For Immediate Release," Joan Harris is outraged when Don fires Jaguar after a tense meeting with Rennett.

In "Man with a Plan," Joan Harris presides over the complicated physical logistics of SCDP's merger with CGC.

Bob Benson, an eager new hire in accounts, walks in on Joan Harris, who is in extreme pain.

Joan Harris is suspicious of Bob's motives for helping her, but her mother advises her that not every good deed is a front.

In "A Tale of Two Cities," Joan Harris goes on a blind date with an Avon executive, which is arranged by Kate.

Joan Harris is eager to expand her role in the firm and recruits Peggy to assist her in securing the account.

Later on, Joan Harris easily sees the attraction between Peggy and CGC executive Ted Chaough, but doesn't mention it to Don until they go over budget for a commercial.

Joan Harris is shocked when Don smooths the client's feathers by saying the expensive idea was that of the deceased Gleason.

When Thanksgiving 1968 approaches, Joan Harris agrees with Cooper, Sterling, and senior partner Jim Cutler that Don should be placed on leave, as she is concerned with Don's erratic behavior and its overall effect on the firm.

Joan Harris reveals that she has made arrangements for Creative to continue functioning, with Ted overseeing Peggy long-distance.

When Roger responds negatively to the presence of Bob, whom Joan Harris had invited, she warns him that she is allowing him into Kevin's life, but not hers.

Joan Harris proves to be capable, as well as a quick study.

Joan Harris's personality has hardened considerably, and she seems more money-conscious, which is likely motivated by her status as single mother.

Joan Harris rejects a marriage proposal from Bob, who is gay, on the grounds that both of them deserve real love and not an "arrangement" that is meant only to cope with Joan Harris's financial difficulties and Bob's need to be in the closet.

Joan Harris is last seen watching her mother and Kevin go off to the park and then resuming her work at the new venture, which is operating out of her apartment under the name Holloway-Harris.

Joan Harris believes discretion is the most important quality in a secretary and will never hesitate to remind other secretaries to safeguard their bosses' private affairs at all times.

Joan Harris is a green-eyed redhead, stands 5 feet 8 inches tall, and her New York State drivers license indicates she weighs 140 pounds.