Joan Allen
Birthday: 1956-08-20
Place of Birth: Rochelle, Illinois, USA
Biography: Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989. She has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and for Best Actress for The Contender (2000). Her other films include The Ice Storm (1996), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Notebook (2004), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).
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Face/Off
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...
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Peggy Sue Got Married
At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, befor...
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Arthur Miller: Writer
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
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The Bourne Supremacy
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows u...
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The Bourne Ultimatum
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation ...
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Pleasantville
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white worl...
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Death Race
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. P...
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Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
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The Notebook
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a ...
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The Crucible
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 w...
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The Upside of Anger
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and he...
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The Contender
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contes...
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Off the Map
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she l...
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Manhunter
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a r...
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It's the Rage
A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At ...
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Yes
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passio...
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In Country
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her bir...
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I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the ...
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his in...
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into h...
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famo...
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Trumbo
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individu...
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Ethan Frome
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitat...
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Bonneville
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden enlists her two best friends and sets off in a...
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Mad Love
Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness...
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The Bourne Legacy
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previ...
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Josh & S.A.M.
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and ...
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The Ice Storm
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm...
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Kitten's First Full Moon
After several attempts of being unable to reach the moon, the kitten returns home and finds a bowl o...
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When the Sky Falls
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish und...
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Without Warning: The James Brady Story
The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on t...
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Georgia O'Keeffe
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz....
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The Room Upstairs
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extr...
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Inside 'Manhunter'
A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into ...
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A Good Marriage
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secr...
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The Rape of Europa
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft ...
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Room
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom,...
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Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and b...
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A Wedding
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of t...
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Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City reveals the fascinating life and complex ...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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Compromising Positions
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigat...
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All My Sons
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in th...
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Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
American Masters takes a look at the career of Jeff Bridges as his friends and family discuss why he...
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Making “Room”
The cast and crew, as well as novelist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, weigh in on the importance of...
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The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'
A five-part documentary with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes foo...
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Who Will Write Our History?
Documentary about a group of Jews, who collected and hid a lot of stories and documents about everyd...
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Say Goodnight, Gracie
A portrait of a generation at a turning point in 1976: With plans to attend their high school reunio...
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