Joan Allen

Joan Allen ( born August 20, 1956 in Rochelle ) is an American actress.

Biography

Allen began her acting career in the theater, where she still occurs regularly. In 1977 she became a member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. It was followed by appearances in television films and series, before she gave her 1985 film debut in Lethal relations. Her first major film role was in 1986 as the Blind in Blood Moon, the first film adaptation of a novel by the mass murderer Hannibal Lecter, the Brian Cox played. In 1989, she received the coveted Tony Award for her role in the play Burn This.

Mid-1990s, Allen was nominated for Nixon and The Crucible in two consecutive years for an Oscar as best supporting actress, and later again as Best Actress for character assassination - Beyond the Moral ( 2000). Critics and audiences, they also remained as sensitive housewife in Gary Ross' Pleasantville tragicomedy - Too good to be true in memory, for which she was honored with the Saturn Award and a Satellite Award. In addition, Allen has worked with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ang Lee, John Woo, Nick Cassavetes, Uli Edel and Norman Jewison.

Allen was for the lead role in the television series Welcome, Mrs. President in conversation, but she said from. In it, she would have the Oscar-nominated role Laine Hanson of character assassination - to take the other side of morality.

2009 Allen embodied in Bob Balaban TV movie Georgia O'Keeffe in the title role of the eponymous American painter, which earned her, among other things, the third nomination for the Golden Globe Award.

Allen was married from 1990 to 2002 with the actor Peter Friedman. The marriage produced a daughter comes (* 1994).

Filmography (selection)

Awards and Nominations Oscar

Oscar