Joan van Ark
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"Joan Van Ark" is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing in the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of Actors Studio/The Actors Studio, she has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work.

Van Ark began her professional stage career in 1963 at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, appearing in The Miser and Death of a Salesman. She made her Broadway theatre/Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park and received a Tony Award nomination for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play/Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1971 for The School for Wives.

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I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

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Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but there's no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

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It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

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I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

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Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

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Running is my church.

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I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.

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When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

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So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

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