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Date of Birth: Joan Allen20 August 1956Has won many Stage awards and won a Tony in 1989 for her debut Broadway performance in Burn This. Listed as one of twelve "Promising 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. [March 1994] Ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 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 film 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. Mother was a homemaker and father was a garage attendant. Chosen as Most Likely to Succeed by 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 brother named David Allen (b. 1943). Parents: Dorothy Allen, a housewife, and Jeff Allen, a gas-station owner. Her father died in 1995. Studied acting at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston under Glendon Gabbard. She was awarded the 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "And a Nightingale Sang" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. She was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "A Lesson from Aloes" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. She was nominated for a 1990 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Reckless" at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. Read more At this site you can watch Joan Allen movies online for free.
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