Joan Allen
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.4 |
| Birthday | 1956-08-20 |
| Place of Birth | Rochelle, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Джоан Аллен, |
1997
Face/Off
7.028/5068
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns...
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Face/Off
1986
Peggy Sue Got Married
6.131/524
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.
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Peggy Sue Got Married
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
7.321/7235
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and M...
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The Bourne Supremacy
2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
7.428/7385
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...
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The Bourne Ultimatum
1998
Pleasantville
7.252/1605
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...
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Pleasantville
2008
Death Race
6.255/3611
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyla...
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Death Race
1995
Nixon
6.906/341
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon
2004
The Notebook
7.888/11108
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life...
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The Notebook
1996
The Crucible
6.582/477
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
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The Crucible
2005
The Upside of Anger
6.263/247
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry f...
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The Upside of Anger
1986
Manhunter
7.035/1262
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...
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Manhunter
1999
It's the Rage
5.5/21
A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding,...
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It's the Rage
2000
The Contender
6.675/226
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...
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The Contender
2003
Off the Map
6.4/28
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to te...
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Off the Map
2005
Yes
6.1/29
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because...
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Yes
1989
In Country
5.4/49
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...
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In Country
1988
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
6.756/361
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by...
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
2009
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
8.005/6468
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale
1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
7.109/533
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
2007
Trumbo
6.7/29
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hol...
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Trumbo
1993
Ethan Frome
5.7/31
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who...
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Ethan Frome
2006
Bonneville
5.6/54
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden enlists her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible to deliver her...
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Bonneville
1995
Mad Love
5.1/100
Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend...
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Mad Love
1993
Josh and S.A.M.
4.7/17
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in...
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Josh and S.A.M.
2012
The Bourne Legacy
6.22/5509
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
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The Bourne Legacy
1997
The Ice Storm
6.868/621
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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The Ice Storm
2000
When the Sky Falls
5/7
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...
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When the Sky Falls
1991
Without Warning: The James Brady Story
6/1
The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president and who, with his wife, became the li...
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Without Warning: The James Brady Story
2009
Georgia O'Keeffe
5.6/10
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
1987
The Room Upstairs
4/3
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more...
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The Room Upstairs
2001
Inside 'Manhunter'
7/1
A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into a motion picture, all told through the actors and...
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Inside 'Manhunter'
2014
A Good Marriage
5.323/429
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
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A Good Marriage
2007
The Rape of Europa
7.4/25
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property...
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The Rape of Europa
2015
Room
8.024/8930
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world...
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Room
2014
Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
0/0
Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant m...
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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2010
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
7.5/1
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City reveals the fascinating life and complex legacy of architect and city planner Daniel Hudson...
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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
1985
Compromising Positions
5.5/16
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who ha...
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Compromising Positions
1987
All My Sons
0/0
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles...
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All My Sons
2011
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
6.7/3
American Masters takes a look at the career of Jeff Bridges as his friends and family discuss why he's so special and why he's become one of the more...
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Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2016
Making “Room”
0/0
The cast and crew, as well as novelist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, weigh in on the importance of the story, the arduous process of bringing it to...
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Making “Room”
2017
Arthur Miller: Writer
7.3/16
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...
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Arthur Miller: Writer
2006
I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
0/0
In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became th...
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I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
2011
Kitten's First Full Moon
0/0
After several attempts of being unable to reach the moon, the kitten returns home and finds a bowl of milk waiting for her.
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Kitten's First Full Moon
2021
The Mists of Avalon
0/0
In spite of resistance from her sister, the Lady of the Lake plans to save the kingdom by training her niece to succeed her.
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