Joan Allen



Joan Allen ( Rochelle , August 201956 ) is an Americanactress . She was for her roles in both Nixon , The Crucible and The Contender nominated for Academy Awards . Over 25 acting awards were actually given her, including Empire Award for The Crucible and both a Satellite Award as a Saturn Award for Pleasantville .

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[ hide ]  *1 Biography ==Biography [ edit] == ===Youth [ edit] === Allen is the youngest of a family with four children. Father James Jefferson Allen was a gas station owner and mother Dorothea Marie Wirth housewife. She has an older brother named David and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School until in 1976 switched to the Northern Illinois University . There she graduated. She began her acting career as an actress and played a few roles on television, until they in 1985 made ​​her debut on the silver screen in Compromising Positions . ===Career [ edit] === In 1989 Allen returned to the stage, where her performance in Burn This a Tony Award winning. She also starred in The Heidi Chronicles, which won a Pulitzer Prize. She received Oscarnominations for her role as Pat Nixon in the film Nixon and for her role in The Crucible . Later, she was nominated for a third time, for best actress in the film The Contender, in which she plays a politician.
 * 1.1 Youth
 * 1.2 Career
 * 1.3 Personal
 * 2 Filmography
 * 3 External links

Allen went for her role in Manhunter, in which she plays a blind woman, blindfolded for several days living in a center for the blind. ===Personally [ edit] === In 1990 Allen married actor Peter Friedman, with whom she daughter in 1994 Sadie got. The marriage ended after twelve years, in 2002. She continued to live close together to both enough time to spend. By Sadie ==Filmography [ edit] ==