Name
Joan Allen
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1956-08-20 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Rochelle, Illinois, USA
Biography
Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.
She has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and for Best Actress for The Contender (2000).
Her other films include The Ice Storm (1996), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Notebook (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
Known For
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- 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married as Maddy Nagle
- 1997 Face/Off as Eve Archer
- 2017 Arthur Miller: Writer as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 The Bourne Supremacy as Pamela Landy
- 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum as Pamela Landy
- 1998 Pleasantville as Betty Parker
- 2008 Death Race as Warden Hennessey
- 1995 Nixon as Pat Nixon
- 2004 The Notebook as Anne Hamilton
- 1996 The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
- 2005 The Upside of Anger as Terry Wolfmeyer
- 2000 The Contender as Laine Hanson
- 2003 Off the Map as Arlene
- 1986 Manhunter as Reba McClane
- 1999 All the Rage as Helen Harding
- 2005 Yes as She
- 1989 In Country as Irene
- 2006 I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
- 1988 Tucker: The Man and His Dream as Vera
- 2009 Hachi: A Dog's Tale as Cate Wilson
- 1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer as Bonnie Waitzkin
- 2007 Trumbo as Self
- 1993 Ethan Frome as Zenobia Zeeman Frome
- 2006 Bonneville as Carol Brimm
- 1995 Mad Love as Margaret Roberts
- 2012 The Bourne Legacy as Pamela Landy
- 1993 Josh & S.A.M. as Caroline Whitney
- 1997 The Ice Storm as Elena Hood
- 2011 Kitten's First Full Moon
- 2000 When the Sky Falls as Sinead Hamilton
- 1991 Without Warning: The James Brady Story as Sarah Brady
- 2009 Georgia O'Keeffe as Georgia O'Keeffe
- 1987 The Room Upstairs as Ellie
- 2001 Inside 'Manhunter' as Herself
- 2014 A Good Marriage as Darcy Anderson
- 2007 The Rape of Europa as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 Room as Nancy
- 2014 Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power as Narrator (voice)
- 1978 A Wedding as Extra (uncredited)
- 2010 Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City as Narrator
- 2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
- 1985 Compromising Positions as Mary Alice Mahoney
- 1987 All My Sons as Ann Deever
- 2011 Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides as Self
- 2016 Making “Room” as Self / Nancy
- 2018 Who Will Write Our History? as Rachela Auerbach (voice)
- 1983 Say Goodnight, Gracie as Ginny
- 2007 Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm as Self
- 2007 The Light and The Dark: The Making of Face/Off as Self
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2005 Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as (segment "Shelter Skelter")
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Lydia (voice)
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Ellie
- 1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2025 Zero Day ( 6 episodes ) as Sheila Mullen
- 2011 The Killing ( 6 episodes ) as Margaret O'Neal
- 2016 The Family ( 12 episodes ) as Claire Warren
- 2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2001 The Mists of Avalon ( 2 episodes ) as Morgause
- 1985 Evergreen ( 3 episodes ) as Iris Friedman
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode )
- 2012 Luck ( 9 episodes ) as Claire Lachay
- 1999 Teen Choice Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 Stars in the House ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2021 Lisey's Story ( 8 episodes ) as Amanda Debusher
- 1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Zeena
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Ann Keller
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Zeena Frome
