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Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received a Tony Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for And a Nightingale Sang, and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This. In the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Allen received international recognition for a string of critically acclaimed performances. She is also a three-time Academy Award nominee, receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender (2000). Allen's other film roles include Manhunter (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Upside of Anger (2005), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Death Race (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2015 film Room. She has also starred in the Broadway plays The Heidi Chronicles (1988), Impressionism (2009), and The Waverly Gallery (2018). Early life and education Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (née Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She first attended Eastern Illinois University, performing in a few plays with John Malkovich, who was also a student, and then Northern Illinois University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theater. Career 1977–1994: early work and Broadway roles Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985). She became a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble in 1977 when John Malkovich asked her to join. She's been a member ever since. In 1984, she won a Clarence Derwent Award for her portrayal of Hellen Stott in And a Nightingale Sang. Allen's work with Steppenwolf has included productions of Three Sisters, Waiting For The Parade, Love Letters, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and The Wheel. In 1989, Allen won a Tony Award for her Broadway debut performance in Burn This opposite Malkovich. She also starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, with Boyd Gaines at the Plymouth Theatre. The show was met with critical praise, receiving six Tony Award nominations and winning Best Play. Allen received her second Tony Award nomination for her performance. 1995–2003: established actor In 1995 she portrayed Former First Lady Pat Nixon acting opposite Anthony Hopkins playing the title role in the Oliver Stone biographical drama Nixon (1995). Critic Roger Ebert praised Allen's performance writing, "The key supporting performance in the movie is by Joan Allen as Pat Nixon. She emerges as strong-willed and clear-eyed, a truth-teller who sees through Nixon's masks and evasions." She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. That same year Allen acted teen romantic drama Mad Love (1995). The following year Allen played Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witchcraft, in The Crucible (1996). Allen acted opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in the Nicholas Hytner directed film based on the Arthur Miller 1953 play of the same name. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly hailed Allen's performance writing, "It's Joan Allen who carries the weight of the film's sorrow, eyes glistening with woe as she delivers the heartbreaking confession to her husband". She received the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year she starred in the drama The Ice Storm directed by Ang Lee, playing an unsatisfied woman who discovers her husband is having an affair with a neighbor. Allen acted opposite Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Elijah Wood, Christina Ricci, and Tobey Maguire. The Hollywood Reporter named it her best film performance writing, "Allen is exquisitely contained, embodying the awkward grace and indefinable ache." She also had a supporting role in the science fiction action film Face/Off (1997). In 1998 Allen starred in the Gary Ross directed fantasy comedy-drama Pleasantville (1998). Allen acted alongside Jeff Daniels, Reese Witherspoon, and Tobey Maguire. For her performance she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was compared favorably to The Truman Show also released in 1998. Joe Leydon of Variety wrote, "Allen is equally effective in her subtle transformation from docile Stepford Wife to yearning free spirit". The following year she acted in It's the Rage (1999) based on the Keith Reddin play of the same name and When the Sky Falls (2000). Both film received negative reviews with some praise for Allen's performance. She was also nominated for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her role in the political drama The Contender (2000). In the film she portrayed a politician who becomes the object of scandal. She starred opposite Jeff Bridges and Gary Oldman. In 2001, Allen starred in the mini-series The Mists of Avalon on TNT and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nomination for the role. In 2003 she starred in Off the Map which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Since 2004: return to Broadway She also starred as Rachel McAdams mother in the 2004 movie The Notebook. In 2005, she received many positive notices for her leading role in the comedy/drama The Upside of Anger, in which she played an alcoholic housewife. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter writing, "Allen turns the character into a tour de force that unleashes an unexpected comedy about compassion and self-loathing." She received a Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress nomination for her performance. She played CIA Deputy Director Pamela Landy in The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Legacy. Allen appeared in Death Race, playing a prison warden. In 2009, Allen starred as Georgia O'Keeffe in Lifetime Television's 2009 biopic chronicling the artist's life. Allen returned to Broadway after a twenty-year absence in March 2009, when she played the role of Katherine Keenan in Michael Jacobs' play Impressionism opposite Jeremy Irons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre..... Discover the Joan Maguire popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joan Maguire books.
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Slim Dusty
Joan MaguireA young American male, hitch hiking through Australia via the outback, is given a lift by an old Australian Travelling Showman. Somehow the Australian Bushman seems to know what is...
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Five Country Men
Joan MaguireIn this book I have written five separate stories from each of the following Australian male counrty artists: Lee Kernaghan, Adan Brand, Troy CassarDaley, James Blundell and Adam H...
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Helpful Dietary Recipes For Most Intolerances International Cuisine Cookbook
Joan MaguireThe Multicultural Community of Bisbane donated the recipes that have been adapted for people who have Fructose Malabsorption, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lactose Intolerant, Gluten F...
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Bon Jovi- Wanted Dead Or Alive
Joan MaguireThe main story is about the Big Green Freak who goes to bed one night and has a dream that is in several parts. After each part he is asked "Who will save New Jersey"? When he wake...
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Country Women
Joan MaguireSix women: Anne Kirkpatrick, Tania Kernaghan, Felicity Urquhart, Beccy Cole, Melinda Schneider and Kasey Chambers attend a funeral in a park. Each woman believes that they are ther...
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Three Crooners
Joan MaguireThis is another book in the Song Title Series that has an unusual story line. Many people have pets, but what would happen if they became a lot like us?... Follow the story of Mrs ...
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ABBA
Joan MaguireIn this book a total of 742 ABBA song titles have been used to make this story about three families from three different countries that all go to an Adventure Park in Europe for a ...
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Fructose Malabsorption Dealing With It My Way
Joan MaguireThis is a short story about me living with and dealing with a virtually unkown complicated medical condition. Fructose malabsorption has only been discovered within the last ten ye...
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Beach Boys
Joan MaguireFollow a part of Marcella's life as she leaves school and starts her work experience program that takes her away from home to a different life and new lifelong friends like Wendy a...
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Elton John
Joan MaguireIn the creation of this book, I have used 1,776 of Elton John's song titles to make this futuristic story possible. Earth is over populated so people are living on the moon and oth...
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Green Day - Song Title Series
Joan MaguireJesus of Suburbia is an elderly gentleman who enjoys his grandchildren's visits and listening to them play the board game Minority. On one particular day, his life is recalled in a...
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Six Crooners
Joan MaguireWho could go past some of the world's Crooners to use in a book so in this book Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra all cont...
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Helpful Dietary Recipes For Most Intolerances Condiments
Joan MaguireThe recipes in this cookbook have been adapted from others and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed by providing their recipes.You can also adapt them to suit pe...
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Fructose Malabsorption and New Discoveries
Joan MaguireI am always doing research on Fructose Malabsorption, the little known medical condition that I have. This book is about the new discoveries, other than digestive issues,...
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Helpful Dietary Recipes For Most Intolerances
Joan MaguireThis cook book has had recipes adapted from other recipes and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed with their recipes.The recipes have been adapted for people who hav...
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The Rat Pack
Joan MaguireIn this book "The Rat Pack" Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. have all contributed songs from the albums that they made together, in fact, a total of 1,337 song titles...