Joan Allen
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Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress.
She began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for And a Nightingale Sang, and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This.
She is also a three-time Academy Award nominee; receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender (2000). Allen's other film roles include Manhunter (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), The Ice Storm (1997), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Upside of Anger (2005), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Death Race (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012).
She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2015 film Room.
She has also starred in the Broadway plays The Heidi Chronicles (1988), Impressionism (2009), and The Waverly Gallery (2018).
Early life and education
Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (née Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She first attended Eastern Illinois University, performing in a few plays with John Malkovich, who was also a student, and then Northern Illinois University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater.
Personal life
In 1990, Allen married actor Peter Friedman. They divorced in 2002 and have one daughter, Sadie, born in February 1994.
Career
Allen began her acting career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in Compromising Positions (1985). She became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company company in 1977 when John Malkovich invited her to join. She has been a member of Ever Sincere. In 1984, she received a Clarence Derwent Award for her role as Hellen Stott in And a Nightingale Sang. Allen's role with Steppenwolf has included productions of Three Sisters, Waiting For The Parade, Love Letters, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and The Wheel. Allen received a Tony Award in 1989 for her debut in Burn This opposite Malkovich. She appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles alongside Boyd Gaines at the Plymouth Theatre. The show was praised with critical praise, receiving six Tony Award nominations and receiving Best Play awards. Allen received her second Tony Award nomination for her appearance.
In The Crucible (1996), she received Academy Award nominations for her performances as Pat Nixon in Nixon (1995) and Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft. She was also nominated for Best Actress for her role in The Contender (2000), in which she played a politician who becomes the object of controversy.
She appeared in the drama The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, and the action thriller Face/Off, directed by John Woo, both appeared in 1997 and 1998, as well as in the comedy-drama Pleasantville (1998).
Allen appeared in The Mists of Avalon on TNT in 2001 and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the role. Rachel McAdams' mother appeared in the 2004 film The Notebook, as well as her father. She received several accolades for her leading role in the comedy/drama The Upside of Anger, in which she played an alcoholic housewife in 2005.
Pamela Landy, CIA Department Director, appeared in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Bourne Legacy. Allen was a prisoner in Death Race, playing a prison warden.
Allen starred in Lifetime Television's 2009 biopic chronicling the artist's life in 2009. Allen returned to Broadway in March 2009 after a twenty-year absence when she appeared in Michael Jacobs' play Impressionism opposite Jeremy Irons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Critics gave the play mixed praises. "Is as painful as it is sublime," the New Yorker said, quoting its "brazen sweetness" and "openhearted humor."
In Bethesda Softworks' 2011 video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Allen portrayed Delphine. She has also contributed to the Thomas Nelson audio Bible series titled The Word of Promise. Allen portrayed Deborah in this dramatic recording. Jim Caviezel, Lou Gossett Jr., John Rhys-Davies, Jon Voight, Gary Sinise, Marisa Tomei, and John Schneider were among the project's cast members.
Allen starred in ABC's hit comedy series The Family in 2015, portraying her role as the villainous and manipulative mayor and matriarch of her family.
Allen, who had been absent from Broadway for nine years, appeared Ellen Fine in the critically acclaimed Broadway premiere performance of the Kenneth Lonergan performer The Waverly Gallery in 2018, alongside Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, and Michael Cera at the John Golden Theatre.
She co-starred Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Lisey's Story, the 2021 Apple TV miniseries based on Stephen King's story, after a five-year absence from acting in films and television. After playing the lead role in the 2014 film, A Good Marriage, Allen's second King adaptation after appearing in the lead role.