Joan Allen
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"Joan Allen" is an American actress, who has worked in theatre, film and television. She is a Tony Award winner, and a three-time Academy Award nominee.

Allen began her acting career in 1977 with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. She made her Broadway theatre/Broadway debut in the 1987 original production of the play Burn This, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1988 original production of The Heidi Chronicles.

She has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress/Best Supporting Actress for Nixon (film)/Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996 film)/The Crucible (1996), and for Academy Award for Best Actress/Best Actress for The Contender (2000 film)/The Contender (2000). Her other films include Manhunter (film)/Manhunter (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), In Country (1989), The Ice Storm (film)/The Ice Storm (1997), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (film)/Pleasantville (1998), The Notebook (2004 film)/The Notebook (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (film)/The Bourne Supremacy (2004) The Bourne Ultimatum (film)/The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Death Race (film)/Death Race (2008) and The Bourne Legacy (film)/The Bourne Legacy (2012).

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Who's gonna do your hair, who's gonna do your make-up, the jewelry, the bag, what kind of stockings?

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.

With something that's more emotionally based, you can't sort of screw the line up a little bit and adlib and something.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I don't have a political bone in my body.

A lady who couldn't keep her legs together.