Joanna Gleason
Birthday: 1950-06-02
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Biography: Joanna Gleason Sarandon (née Joanne Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian-American actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She is known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her film work in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1986), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). She has had television roles in shows such as Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife and The Affair.
Movies
The Wedding Planner
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her d...
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...
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The Rebound
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, ...
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Wedding Daze
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at t...
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Into the Woods
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curs...
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My Sassy Girl
A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman....
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The Girl in the Park
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, h...
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F/X2
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He ask...
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For Richer, for Poorer
Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a sel...
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Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the ...
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Road Ends
Real estate agent Maceda (Chris Sarandon) once testified against drug trafficker Orosco (Miguel Naje...
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Last Vegas
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally ...
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The Skeleton Twins
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunit...
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Edie & Pen
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming frie...
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Broadway: The Next Generation
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....
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Still the Beaver
This movie reunites most of the members of the Cleaver clan, Wally, June, and of course, the Beaver....
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If These Walls Could Talk
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all ...
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For the Love of Aaron
Family Ties' Meredith Baxter Birney stars in this made-for-television movie about a woman threatened...
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Boogie Nights
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...
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Great Day
When a neighborhood is plagued by break-ins, a family looks to burglar-proof their house. Dead bolts...
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Mr. Holland's Opus
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
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Fathers and Sons
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of ...
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The Women
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon...
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The Boys
When Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his s...
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American Perfekt
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimen...
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Heartburn
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column...
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Life Under Water
Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to ...
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Sex and the City
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girl...
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Russian Broadway Shut Down
Citing homosexual propaganda law, Russian government outlaws theatrical performance. The Russian Bro...
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Born Too Soon
American television film about the life of Emily Butterfield, a baby girl who was born prematurely a...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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Let the Devil Wear Black
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murd...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
A look at one hundred years of romance in American cinema....
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