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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...

Making “Room”
2016
as Self / Nancy
The cast and crew, as well as novelist and screenwriter Emma Donoghue, weigh in on the importance of the story, the arduous process of bringing it to ...

Room
2015
as Nancy
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world ...

Rickover: The Birth of Nuclear Power
2014
as Narrator (voice)
Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant m...

A Good Marriage
2014
as Darcy Anderson
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

The Bourne Legacy
2012
as Pamela Landy
New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
as Self
American Masters takes a look at the career of Jeff Bridges as his friends and family discuss why he's so special and why he's become one of the more ...

Kitten's First Full Moon
2011
After several attempts of being unable to reach the moon, the kitten returns home and finds a bowl of milk waiting for her.

Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
2010
as Narrator
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City reveals the fascinating life and complex legacy of architect and city planner Daniel Hudson...

Georgia O'Keeffe
2009
as Georgia O'Keeffe
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Georgia O'Keeffe
2009
Executive Producer
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009
as Cate Wilson
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.

Death Race
2008
as Warden Hennessey
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyla...

The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'
2007
as Self
A five-part documentary with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes footage.

Trumbo
2007
as Self
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hol...

The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Pamela Landy
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...

The Rape of Europa
2007
as Narrator (voice)
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property...

Bonneville
2006
as Carol Brimm
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden enlists her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible to deliver her...

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006
as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...

I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote
2006
In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became th...

Yes
2005
as She
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because...

The Upside of Anger
2005
as Terry Wolfmeyer
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry f...

The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Pamela Landy
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and M...

The Notebook
2004
as Anne Hamilton
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life ...

Off the Map
2003
as Arlene
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to te...

Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
as Herself
A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into a motion picture, all told through the actors and ...

The Contender
2000
as Laine Hanson
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...

When the Sky Falls
2000
as Sinead Hamilton
Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate a...

It's the Rage
1999
as Helen Harding
A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint. At the centre of it all are Helen and Warren Harding,...

Pleasantville
1998
as Betty Parker
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and...

The Ice Storm
1997
as Elena Hood
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Face/Off
1997
as Eve Archer
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns ...

The Crucible
1996
as Elizabeth Proctor
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Nixon
1995
as Pat Nixon
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...

Mad Love
1995
as Margaret Roberts
Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend...

Josh and S.A.M.
1993
as Caroline Whitney
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in ...

Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993
as Bonnie Waitzkin
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Ethan Frome
1993
as Zenobia Zeeman Frome
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who ...

Without Warning: The James Brady Story
1991
as Sarah Brady
The story of Ronald Reagan's press secretary who was crippled in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president and who, with his wife, became the li...

In Country
1989
as Irene
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also...

Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988
as Vera
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by ...

The Room Upstairs
1987
as Ellie
A Boston teacher decides to turn her old home into a boarding house to pull in some much-needed extra money. It turns out her tenants help her in more...

All My Sons
1987
as Ann Deever
Two families, related by friendship and love, face up to the consequences of greed and avarice in the post-war years. Love and death play equal roles ...

Peggy Sue Got Married
1986
as Maddy Nagle
Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

Manhunter
1986
as Reba McClane
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...

Compromising Positions
1985
as Mary Alice Mahoney
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who ha...

A Wedding
1978
as Extra (uncredited)
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as...