Acting
Joan Allen
EN, IT cinema · 49 credits
Born
20 August 1956 (age 70)
Birthplace
Rochelle, Illinois, USA
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).
Known for
Filmography
Who Will Write Our History?
as Rachela Auerbach (voice)
Arthur Miller: Writer
as Self (archive footage)
Making “Room”
as Self / Nancy
Room
as Nancy
A Good Marriage
as Darcy Anderson
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
as Narrator (voice)
The Bourne Legacy
as Pamela Landy
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
as Cate Wilson
Georgia O'Keeffe
as Georgia O'Keeffe, Executive Producer
Death Race
as Warden Hennessey
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Pamela Landy
Trumbo
as Self
The Rape of Europa
as Narrator (voice)
Bonneville
as Carol Brimm
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
The Upside of Anger
as Terry Wolfmeyer
Yes
as She
The Bourne Supremacy
as Pamela Landy
The Notebook
as Anne Hamilton
Off the Map
as Arlene
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Herself
The Contender
as Laine Hanson
It's the Rage
as Helen
When the Sky Falls
as Sinead Hamilton
Pleasantville
as Betty Parker
Face/Off
as Eve Archer
The Ice Storm
as Elena Hood
The Crucible
as Elizabeth Proctor
Nixon
as Pat Nixon
Mad Love
as Margaret Roberts
Searching for Bobby Fischer
as Bonnie Waitzkin
Ethan Frome
as Zenobia Zeeman Frome
Josh & S.A.M.
as Caroline Whitney
Without Warning: The James Brady Story
as Sarah Brady
In Country
as Irene
The Room Upstairs
as Ellie
All My Sons
as Ann Deever
Peggy Sue Got Married
as Maddy Nagle
Manhunter
as Reba McClane
Compromising Positions
as Mary Alice Mahoney
A Wedding
as Extra (uncredited)