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• Good Sharma(2008) (post-production) .... Veronica
• Hachiko: A Dog's Story(2008) (post-production)
• Death Race (2008) .... Hennessey
• The Bourne Ultimatum(2007) .... Pam Landy
• Bonneville(2006) .... Carol
• The Upside of Anger(2005) .... Terry Ann Wolfmeyer
• Yes(2004/I) .... She
• The Bourne Supremacy(2004) .... Pamela Landy
• The Notebook (2004) .... Anne Hamilton
• Off the Map (2003) .... Arlene
• The Mists of Avalon(2001) (TV) .... Morgause
• The Contender(2000) .... Sen. Laine Hanson
• When the Sky Falls(2000) .... Sinead Hamilton
• All the Rage(1999) .... Helen
• Pleasantville(1998) .... Betty Parker
• Face/Off(1997) .... Dr. Eve Archer
• The Ice Storm(1997) .... Elena Hood
• The Crucible(1996) .... Elizabeth Proctor
• "Frasier" .... Lydia (1 episode, 1996)
• Nixon(1995) .... Pat Nixon
• Mad Love(1995) .... Margaret Roberts
• [[ Josh and S.A.M. (1993) .... Caroline Whitney
• [[ Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) .... Bonnie Waitzkin
• Ethan Frome(1993) .... Zenobia 'Zeena' Frome
• Without Warning: The James Brady Story(1991) (TV) .... Sarah Brady
• In Country(1989) .... Irene
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) .... Vera Tucker
• "The Twilight Zone" .... Sally Dobbs (1 episode, 1987)
• The Room Upstairs(1987) (TV) .... Ellie
• Peggy Sue Got Married(1986) .... Maddy Nagle
• Zeisters(1986) .... Lala
• Manhunter(1986) .... Reba McClane
• All My Sons (1986) (TV) .... Ann Deever
• Compromising Positions(1985) .... Mary Alice Mahoney
• "Evergreen" (1985) TV mini-series .... Iris Friedman
• Say Goodnight, Gracie(1983) (TV)

Has won many Stage awards and won a Tony in 1989 for her debut Broadway performance in Burn This.

Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. [1986]

Transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976 where she graduated.

Daughter born, Sadie. [March 1994]

Ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Has worked with two "Hannibal Lecters." She appeared in the first Lecter film, Manhunter (1986), with Brian Cox. She later played Pat Nixon in the film Nixon (1995), opposite Anthony Hopkins. Brian Cox later appeared with her again in The Bourne Supremacy (2004).

Won the 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for her Broadway debut in Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." She was again nominated the next year (1989) in the same category for Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles.".

Her Boston terrier is called Nora.

Is the youngest of 4 children.

Mother was a homemaker and father was a garage attendant.

Chosen as Most Likely to Succeed by friends when graduating from high school.

Graduated from the same university as Dan Castellaneta, Justin Mentell, and Matt Ricci.

Joan has two sisters: Mary Allen (b. 1940), Lynn Allen (b. 1954) and a brother named David Allen (b. 1943).

Parents: Dorothy Allen, a housewife, and Jeff Allen, a gas-station owner. Her father died in 1995.

Studied acting at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston under Glendon Gabbard.

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