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Joan Hackett
American actress (1934–1983)
Not to be confused with Jo Ann Hackett.
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress.[1] She acted in film, television, and theatre. She played roles in The Group (1966), Will Penny (1968), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), The Last of Sheila (1973), and The Terminal Man (1974). She also starred as Christine Mannon in the 1978 PBS miniseries version of Mourning Becomes Electra. In 1982, Hackett was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she was also the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, for her performance as Toby Landau in the 1981 box-office smash dramady film Only When I Laugh. During the course of her career, Hackett was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Laurel Award, as well as the recipient of an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award honoring her stage work. [2]
Early life
Hackett was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New Yo
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Joan Hackett was never one of your conventional leading ladies. Directors sometimes found her difficult to work with. Yet this strong-minded perfectionist had an unquenchable individuality that came through in her performances, and she never hesitated to appear unglamorous whenever the role demanded. Born of an Italian mother and an Irish-American father in East Harlem on March 1, 1934, teenage Joan left school during twelfth grade to become a model. On the cover of Harper's Junior Bazaar in 1952, the attractive brunette turned down the resulting offer of a contract with 20th Century-Fox and opted instead for acting classes at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio.
Joan made her Broadway debut in the John Gielgud production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in 1959 and also appeared in her first television episode that year. In 1961, she had her first success in an off-Broadway play, "Call Me By My Rightful Name", winning three awards, including an Obie. A later stage performance, "Night Watch" (1972), based on a play by Lucille Fletcher, saw her playing
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Joan Hackett
ACTOR
1934 - 1983
Joan Hackett
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress. She acted in film, television, and theatre. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan Hackett has received more than 2,361,794 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Joan Hackett is the 6,529th most popular actor (down from 5,007th in 2019), the 9,623rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,435th in 2019) and the 3,004th most popular American Actor.
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Among ACTORS
Among actors, Joan Hackett ranks 6,529 out of 13,578. Before her are Marianna Hill, Lília Cabral, Cho Jin-woong, Florence Henderson, Susan Lucci, and Susana González. After her are Laila Robins, Keith Szarabajka, Álex Angulo, Joan Lorring, Kevin Chapman, and Wallace Langham.
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