Joan Allen

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1956-08-20 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Rochelle, Illinois, USA

Joan Allen

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).

Acting

1986

Peggy Sue Got Married

as Maddy Nagle

1997

Face/Off

as Eve Archer

2004

The Bourne Supremacy

as Pamela Landy

2017

Arthur Miller: Writer

as Self (archive footage)

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

It's the Rage

as Helen Harding

2005

Yes

as She

1989

In Country

as Irene

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 and S.A.M.

as Caroline Whitney

1997

The Ice Storm

as Elena Hood

2000

When the Sky Falls

as Sinead Hamilton

2009

Georgia O'Keeffe

as Georgia O'Keeffe

1987

2001

2014

A Good Marriage

as Darcy Anderson

2007

The Rape of Europa

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Room

as Nancy

1978

A Wedding

as Extra (uncredited)

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

2016

Making “Room”

as Self / Nancy

Production

2009

Georgia O'Keeffe

as Executive Producer

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