Joan Allen Biography & Movies

JOAN ALLEN Date of Birth: August 20, 1956 Most of the film world audience didn't really know who this Rochelle, Illinois native was until she scored back-to-back Oscar nominations for Nixon and The Crucible. That's because Allen was most often to be found on the stage where she garnered numerous awards for her work, including a 1989 Tony for her Broadway debut in Burn This. "I didn't do films until my late twenties," she says. "I was so entrenched in theater, I didn't know how to act in front of... See All