Joanna Cassidy

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Joanna Cassidy (born August 2, 1945) is an American actress.

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), she is best known for her role as the replicant Zhora Salome in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner (1982) and Dolores (1988).

She has been nominated for three Emmy Awards, as well as for the Saturn Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Cassidy has appeared in films including Under Fire, The Fourth Protocol, Where the Heart Is, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Death, Vampire in Brooklyn, and Ghosts of Mars.

Margaret Chenowith appeared on HBO's drama series Six Feet Under from 2001 to 2005.

Joan Hunt appeared on ABC's Body of Proof from 2011 to 2013.

Candace Von Weber appeared on Bravo scripted series Odd Mom Out between 2015 and 2017.

Early life and education

Cassidy was born in Camden, New Jersey, and she was the niece of Virginia and Joe Caskey. She grew up in Haddonfield and attended Haddonfield Memorial High School and has referred to herself as a "rowdy girl" there. She is best known for her infectious, howling hum that can be seen in the film The Laughing Policeman and on her appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Cassidy trained in art at Syracuse University. She married Kennard C. Kobrin, a resident physician, in 1964, and found work as a fashion model during her time there. Cassidy and her husband established a psychiatric clinic in San Francisco, where Cassidy continued modeling. They had a son and a daughter together. She landed a small part in Bullitt in 1968.

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Career

Cassidy's first film appearance was in The Outfit (1973). She appeared in a 1973 Smokey Bear public service announcement (PSA), as well as on television series Mission: Impossible, Starsky & Hutch, and Taxi. Stay Hungry (1976), a film about bodybuilding starring a teenage Arnold Schwarzenegger, had a small part in it. Cassidy was considered for the role of Wonder Woman in a television series but she was rejected by Lynda Carter. She co-starred in the film Our Winning Season (1978). Morgan Wainwright, the sheriff's pilot in the action-adventure series 240-Robert (1979), but the series only lasted for two abbreviated seasons. Cassidy continued to appear in film series such as Dallas and Falcon Crest, as well as a regular appearance on the short-lived sitcom Buffalo Bill (1983), for which she received a Golden Globe Award). Code Name: Foxfire (1985), she appeared on the short-lived NBC television series Code Name: Foxfire (1985).

Cassidy appeared in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1982 as the replicant snake performer Zhora Salome. She appeared in Under Fire with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte the following year. She continued to appear in films and television; she co-starred in the television series The Package (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991). She appeared on the sitcom Dudley Moore in 1993, but the series only lasted for six episodes. In the television film The Rockford Files: I Still Love Los Angeles (1994), she played the ex-wife of James Garner's lead character.

Barbarians at the Gate (1993), Stephen King's The Tommyknockers (1993), and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995), were among her other screen credits from the period. Inspector Maggie Sawyer appeared on The WB's Superman: The Animated Series, and she appeared on television series including L.A. Law, Melrose Place, Diagnosis: Murder, and The District.

Cassidy has been involved in the film Ghosts of Mars (2001) directed by John Carpenter, and she has appeared in various parts of HBO's Six Feet Under, for which she was nominated for Emmy Award and Screen Actor Guild Awards. T'Les, the Vulcan mother of Enterprise crewmember T'Pol), appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2004, and she had a regular appearance on the series Boston Legal in 2006. She portrayed Hecubah in the computer game Nox (2000) and then introduced Maggie Sawyer in the 2002 video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips.

Cassidy wore Zhora's costume 25 years after the film's debut of Blade Runner to recreate a climactic scene from the film's fall 2007 Final Cut release. In the original 1982 version, a stunt performer brought Zhora's death scene to a halt, with physical similarities between the performer and Cassidy particularly apparent (including the stunt woman wearing a different wig). Cassidy's head was digitally transposed onto a video of the stunt artist, making the death scene fit continuity. Cassidy herself suggested this be done, according to the DVD featurette All Our Variant Futures; she was caught on camera suggesting it during a retrospective interview related to Blade Runner.

In the second season of NBC's Heroes, she is included in a portrait of the 12 senior figures of the show's enigmatic corporation. Victoria Pratt appeared in the tenth episode of season two's "Reality & Consequences," where she was killed beyond appearances in photographs.

Cassidy appeared in episodes of Ghost Whisperer, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order: United Kingdom, and was also seen in Amanda Hawthorne's recurring guest role on the medical drama Hawthorne from 2008 to 2009.

Cassidy first appeared on ABC's Body of Proof as Judge Joan Hunt, the mother of Megan Hunt, Dana Delany's character on the series, in 2011. After three seasons in May 2013, ABC cancelled the program. Cassidy appeared in the Bravo scripted series Odd Mom Out in 2015. Candace Von Weber, a snobbish Upper East Side socialite and mother-in-law to the show's protagonist Jill Weber (Jill Kargman), appears on the show. In 2017, the show was cancelled. She appeared in Too Old to Die Young, the Amazon Prime miniseries, in 2019, and later appeared on NCIS: New Orleans.

Cassidy received an honorary award at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2015.

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