13 Facts About Joanna Barnes

Joanna Barnes was an American actress and writer.

Joanna Barnes had two younger sisters, Alice and Judith, and grew up in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Joanna Barnes attended Milton Academy and then Smith College, from which she graduated in 1956 as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Joanna Barnes received the college's award for poetry, the immediate successor to Sylvia Plath for this recognition.

On December 19,1972, Joanna Barnes appeared on The Merv Griffin Show with Joan Fontaine, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dan Martino.

Joanna Barnes appeared in season 7 episode 22 of Cheers.

Joanna Barnes moved to Los Angeles soon after finishing her education, and took up a contract with Columbia Pictures.

Joanna Barnes went on to have roles in more than 20 films.

Joanna Barnes became the 13th actress to play Jane when she appeared in Tarzan, the Ape Man, with Denny Miller as Tarzan.

Joanna Barnes played the younger of the two Roman women who visited Peter Ustinov's gladiator school and thoughtlessly provoked a slave rebellion 1960's Spartacus.

In Disney's original 1961 version of The Parent Trap starring Hayley Mills, Joanna Barnes played gold-digger Vicki Robinson, who temporarily comes between Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith.

Joanna Barnes wrote a weekly book review for the Los Angeles Times, and her column "Touching Home" was carried by the Chicago Tribune and the New York News Syndicate.

Joanna Barnes died at her home in Sea Ranch, California, on April 29,2022, aged 87.