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Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine (Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, 1917–2013), British-American actress; sister of Olivia de Havilland. Won the 1941 Best Actress Oscar for Hitchcock's Suspicion after Rebecca; the only siblings with lead acting Oscars.
Joan Greenwood
Joan Greenwood (1921–1987), British actress with a husky plummy voice; star of Ealing comedies Kind Hearts and Coronets, Whisky Galore!, and The Man in the White Suit, plus stage roles from Hedda Gabler to The Chalk Garden.
Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett (Joan Ann Hackett), American actress of stage, film, and TV; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for Only When I Laugh (1981), star of The Group, Will Penny, and The Last of Sheila; birth year disputed (1934 vs 1942).
Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson (1906-1998), English character actress and Tony Award winner, played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the BBC series 1984-1992, adapting all 12 novels; Christie had endorsed her for the role in 1946.
Joan Leslie
Joan Leslie (Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel, 1925–2015), American actress of Hollywood's Golden Age; star of High Sierra, Sergeant York, and Yankee Doodle Dandy who sued Warner Bros. in 1946.
Joan O'Brien
Joan O'Brien (Joan Marie O'Brien, 1936-2025), American actress and singer; MGM contract player known for Operation Petticoat and It Happened at the World's Fair with Elvis Presley; died May 5, 2025, in San Antonio.
Joan Plowright
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier (1929–2025), English stage and screen actress, Royal Court founder member, Tony and double Golden Globe winner, and Laurence Olivier's widow.
Joan Severance
Joan Severance (born 1958) is an American actress and former supermodel, an Elite model in Paris and New York, known for See No Evil Hear No Evil, Black Scorpion, and Love Boat: The Next Wave.
Joan Sims
Joan Sims (Irene Joan Marion Sims, 1930-2001), English comic actress, "First Lady of Carry On", appeared in 24 of the 31 Carry On films from Carry On Nurse (1959) to Carry On Emmannuelle (1978), plus the Doctor films and TV sitcoms.
Joan Staley
Joan Staley (Joan Lynette McConchie, 1940-2019), American actress and model, Playboy's Miss November 1958, known for The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Broadside, and Roustabout with Elvis Presley.
Joan Taylor
Joan Taylor (Rose Marie Emma, 1929–2012), American actress of 1950s westerns and sci-fi films Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and 20 Million Miles to Earth; Milly Scott on The Rifleman; later co-wrote Fools Rush In and managed Hawaii Five-O.
Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark (born 1943) is an American actress known as Valene Ewing on Dallas and Knots Landing (1979-1993), a Yale-trained stage actress with a 1971 Tony nomination, voice of Spider-Woman, and podcast host of We're KNOT Done Yet!.
Joanna Barnes
Joanna Barnes (1934–2022), American actress, novelist, and journalist; played Gloria Upson in Auntie Mame (1958) and Vicky Robinson in The Parent Trap (1961), reprising her as the fiancée's mother in the 1998 remake.
Joanna Bobin
Joanna Bobin is a British actress, also credited as Jo Bobin, best known as Lady Cowper in Netflix's Bridgerton (2020–2024) and for roles in Alice Through the Looking Glass, Gunpowder Milkshake, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent; sister of director James Bobin.
Joanna Cassidy
Joanna Cassidy (Joanna Virginia Caskey, born 1945) is an American actress known as Zhora in Blade Runner (1982) and Dolores in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); Golden Globe winner for Buffalo Bill, Emmy-nominated for Six Feet Under.
Joanna Christie
Joanna Christie, also known as Joanna Lauren Christie, is a British actress known for playing Jill opposite Daniel Radcliffe in the West End's Equus and Girl in Broadway's Once.
Joanna David
Joanna David (Joanna Hacking) is an English actress born 1947 in Lancaster, known for Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1971), Mrs. Gardiner in Pride and Prejudice (1995), and as Edward Fox's wife and Emilia Fox's mother.
JoAnna Garcia Swisher
JoAnna Garcia Swisher (JoAnna Lynne Garcia, born 1979, Tampa) is an American actress known for Cheyenne on Reba, Maddie Townsend on Sweet Magnolias, Ariel on Once Upon a Time, and marriage to Nick Swisher.
Joanna Going
Joanna Going (Joanna Catherine Going), American actress born 1963 in Washington, D.C., raised in Newport, Rhode Island; known for Another World, Dark Shadows (1991), Wyatt Earp, House of Cards, Kingdom, and The Pitt.
Joanna Kerns
Joanna Kerns, born Joanna Crussie DeVarona in 1953, is an American actress best known as Maggie Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains (1985–1992), who later became a prolific television director.
Joanna Kulig
Joanna Kulig (born 1982, Krynica-Zdrój) is a Polish actress and singer, star of Pawlikowski's Cold War (Zula), Orzeł and Paszport Polityki winner, also of Ida, Hanna, The Eddy, and She Came to Me.
Joanna Lumley
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1946, Srinagar, Kashmir) is an English actress, former model, and activist, known as Purdey in The New Avengers, Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous, OBE 1995, BAFTA Fellowship 2017, Gurkha campaigner.
Joanna Moore
Joanna Moore (Dorothy Joan Cook, 1934–1997), American film and TV actress, Andy Griffith Show's Peggy McMillan, Touch of Evil, first wife of Ryan O'Neal, mother of Tatum O'Neal.
Joanna Pacuła
Joanna Pacuła, Polish film, TV, and stage actress and model based in the US since the 1980s; Golden Globe-nominated for Gorky Park (1983), also known for Escape from Sobibor, Tombstone, and Virus.
Joanna Page
Joanna Page (Joanna Louise Page) is a Welsh actress born in Swansea, best known as Stacey Shipman in Gavin & Stacey (2007-2024) and Judy in Love Actually; also a presenter, Doctor Who's Queen Elizabeth I, and memoirist.
Joanna Pettet
Joanna Pettet (Joanna Jane Salmon, 1942–2026), British-born Canadian-raised actress; Broadway's Poor Richard, Kay in The Group, Mata Bond in Casino Royale 1967; TV guest roles; ex-wife of Alex Cord.
Joanna Scanlan
Joanna Scanlan (Joanna Marion Scanlan) is a British actress and writer, BAFTA-winning lead actress for After Love, known for The Thick of It, Getting On, No Offence, and Slow Horses.
Joanna Shimkus
Joanna Shimkus, born 1943 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian actress, model, and producer known for Les Aventuriers (1967), Tante Zita (1968), and The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970), and as Sidney Poitier's widow, married 1976.
Joanna Vanderham
Joanna Vanderham (born 1991, Perth, Scotland) is a Scottish actress: Denise Lovett in The Paradise, Penelope Blake in Warrior, DS Amanda Drummond in Crime, Sam in The Control Room, and Diana Mitford in Outrageous, plus RSC stage work.
JoAnne Astrow
JoAnne Astrow, born June 24, 1938, is an American comedian, producer, and actress from Brooklyn who co-owns the World Famous Improvisation and produced HBO's Lewis Black specials.