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Joan Allen: Roles
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Allen reprised her role as CIA operative Pamela Landy for "Ultimatum," which set a record for an August release when it opened to $69.3 million last weekend. McShane stars in "Hot Rod," which opened to a more-modest $5.3 million last weekend. Gibson most recently appeared in "Transformers."
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Allen then landed a major role opposite John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in John Woo’s smash hit Face/Off, in which she gave a typically understated performance, leaving the scenery-chewing to her cohorts. That year, she received critical acclaim as Kevin Kline’s estranged wife in The Ice Storm, Ang Lee’s stark and complex look at American suburban mores.
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Joan is very comfortable in her role of working with the dedicated people in Community Life. The commission's main thrust is to be of service and to offer the representatives the opportunity to reach out and fulfill their goals both organizationally and personally.
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The role is another in a growing list of strong women portrayed by Allen. She ... starred as Richard Nixon's stoic wife, alongside Anthony Hopkins, in the biopic Nixon and last year appeared as murdered Irish journalist Veronica Guerin in When The Sky Falls. However, Allen says there's been no game plan to her choice of roles.
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The movie roles got progressively larger, until Allen's breakthrough opposite Hopkins' Nixon, which nabbed her an Oscar nomination. She was nominated again for The Contender, in 2000, as a vice presidential candidate who's controversial because she's [gasp] an atheist with a libido.
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