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Joan Allen: Tony Award
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Three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen has been in a succession of blockbusters in recent years. There's been "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," and "The Upside of Anger." But in recent weeks she's been talking about a much smaller film, about some very big issues. It's the latest movie by iconoclastic British director Sally Potter, who ... wrote the script. It's simply called "Yes."
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Joan Allen was a Best Actress Tony-winner for Steppenwolf's Burn This. She was ... Tony-nominated for Best Actress for The Heidi Chronicles. Joan's Academy Award nominations include Best Supporting Actress for The Crucible and Nixon, and Best Actress for The Contender.
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A native of Rochelle, Ill., the actress Joan Allen graduated from Northern Illinois University. A Tony Award winner, she has been working in films since 1985 and has been nominated for an Oscar three times. Her films include "The Bourne Ultimatum," "The Upside of Anger," "The Bourne Supremacy," "The Notebook," "The Contender," "Pleasantville," "Face/Off" and "Peggy Sue Got Married."
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Born in Illinois, Allen attended Eastern Illinois University and, in 1978, joined fellow graduate John Malkovich in Chicago to be part of the Steppenwolf theatre company. Allen moved to New York in the early '80s, quickly making her mark on the stage. She won a Tony Award for her work in Burn This (... with Malkovich) and a Tony nomination for The Heidi Chronicles. Then she chose to hit her mark and make movies. Her first movie role-a small part-was in Compromising Positions, and she appeared in Searching For Bobby Fischer, In Country, Ethan Frome, Mad Love, Peggy Sue Got Married and Tucker: The Man And His Dream. Then there came Nixon, The Crucible, Face|Off, The Ice Storm and Pleasantville.
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Guide Note Joan Allen is an Oscar winning stage and film actress. She ... received Tony Award for the play Burn This. More recently she starred in The Bourne Film Series and Bonneville.
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In 1989, Allen returned to the stage and won a Tony Award in her Broadway debut performance in Burn This. She ... starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Pat Nixon in Nixon (1995) and as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman who is accused of witchcraft, as well as her husband who was also accused of witchcraft in the film adaptation of The Crucible (1996). She was also nominated for Best Actress for her role in The Contender (a film produced by co-star Gary Oldman and producer Douglas Urbanski), in which she played a politician who becomes the object of scandal. Allen is respected by her peers both for her professionalism and the intense preparation she brings to each of her roles. For example, to play a blind woman in the cult classic Manhunter (1986), she went to a school for the blind and wore a blindfold for several days.
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