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Joan Allen
20 August 1956
Joan Allen played in 16 movies in the Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music, Biography, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery genres.
Joan Allen got succeed with average imdb rating 6.9.
Has won many Stage awards and won a Tony in 1989 for her debut Broadway performance in Torch This.
Listed as one of twelve "Encouraging New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. [1986]
Transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976 whence she graduated.
Daughter born, Sadie. [Parade 1994]
Ensemble associate of the Steppenwolf Theatre Fellowship.
Has worked with two "Hannibal Lecters." She appeared in the first Lecter film, Manhunter (1986), with Brian Cox. She later played Pat Nixon in the cover Nixon (1995), opposite Anthony Hopkins. Brian Cox later appeared with her again in The Bourne Supremacy (2004).
... Won the 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for her Broadway debut in Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." She was again nominated the next year (1989) in the same category for Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles.".
Her Boston terrier is called Nora.
Is the youngest of 4 children.
Nourish was a homemaker and pastor was a garage attendant.
Chosen as Most Disposed to to Prosper nearby friends when graduating from high school.
Graduated from the same university as Dan Castellaneta, Justin Mentell, and Matt Ricci.
Joan has two sisters: Mary Allen (b. 1940), Lynn Allen (b. 1954) and a fellow-man named David Allen (b. 1943).
Parents: Dorothy Allen, a housewife, and Jeff Allen, a gas-station owner. Her father died in 1995.
Laboured acting at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston under Glendon Gabbard.
She was awarded the 1983 Joseph Jefferson Prize for Actress in a Main part Function in a Gamble in the direction of "And a Nightingale Sang" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Associates in Chicago, Illinois.
She was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play in behalf of "A Lesson from Aloes" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Companionship in Chicago, Illinois.
She was nominated benefit of a 1990 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play conducive to "Reckless" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Proprietorship in Chicago, Illinois.
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