Joan Allens Total Net Worth
Sarah Joan Allen has a net worth of $8 Million
Bio of Sarah Joan Allen
Joan Allen was born on the 20th of August 1956, in Rochelle, Illinois USA, of British and German descent. She is an actress who is probably best recognized for starring in the role of Elizabeth Proctor in the film “The Crucible”, playing Laine Hanson in the film “The Contender” (2000), portraying Colonel Margaret Rayne in the TV series “The Killing” (2014), and as Claire Warren in the TV series “The Family” (2016). Her acting career has been active since 1977.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Joan Allen is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Joan’s net worth is over $8 million, accumulated through her successful career in the entertainment industry.
Joan Allen Net Worth $8 Million
Joan Allen is the youngest of four children born to James Jefferson Allen, who was the owner of a gas station, and Dorothea Marie, who was a homemaker. She went to Rochelle Township High School, after which she enrolled at Eastern Illinois University, where she began performing in plays alongside John Malkovich, but later she transferred to Northern Illinois University, from which she graduated with a BFA degree in Theater.
Her acting career began initially on the stage, when in 1977 she joined the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble, together with Malkovich, appearing in a number of productions, such as her role of Hellen Stott in “And A Nightingale Sang”, for which she won a Clarence Derwent Award in 1984.
In the following year, she moved to the big screen, making her debut appearance in the film “Compromising Positions”, as Mary Alice Mahoney. In 1986, she was cast in two films – “Manhunter” playing Reba McClane, and “Peggy Sue Got Married” portraying Maddy Nagle. By the next decade, she had also starred in the role of Vera Tucker in the 1988 film “Tucker: The Man And His Dream”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Since then, her career has only gone upwards, as well as her net worth.
During the next decade, Joan’s name became more and more recognized, and she was soon able to acquire high profile roles in popular TV series and films. By the mid- 1990s, she had won the role of Zeena in “Ethan Frome” (1991), played Bonnie Waitzkin in “Searching For Bobby Fischer” (1993), and appeared as Margaret Roberts in “Mad Love” (1995). In 1995 Joan was also selected for the role of Pat Nixon in the TV series “Nixon”, starring alongside Anthony Hopkins and Powers Boothe. Her next major role was in the 1997 film “Face/Off”, with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in leading roles. All of these added a considerable amount to her net worth.
The new millennium didn’t change too much for her, as she continued to line up success after success, earning roles in such TV and film titles as “The Notebook” (2004) playing Anne Hamilton, “The Bourne Ultimatum” (2007) as Pam Landy, and “Georgia O’Keeffe” (2009) in the title role. To speak further about her career, she was also selected to play Claire Lachay in the TV series “Luck” (2012), and in the same year she reprised the role of Pam Landy in the film “The Bourne Legacy”. Most recently, she appeared in the TV series “The Killing” (2014), the film “Room” (2015), and in the TV series “The Family” (2016). Her net worth is certainly rising.
Thanks to her accomplishments in the film industry, Joan has earned a number of recognitions and awards, including the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work on “Nixon”, San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress for her works on “Yes” and “The Upside Of Anger”. Beside that, she has been nominated for three Primetime Emmy, three Golden Globe and three Academy Awards.
Speaking about her personal life, Joan Allen was married to actor Peter Friedman (1990-2002), with whom she has a daughter. She is currently unmarried.
| Full Name | Joan Allen |
| Net Worth | $8 Million |
| Date Of Birth | August 20, 1956 |
| Place Of Birth | Rochelle, Illinois, United States |
| Height | 1.78 m |
| Profession | Actress |
| Education | Northern Illinois University, Eastern Illinois University, Rochelle Township High School |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Peter Friedman (m. 1990–2002) |
| Children | Sadie Friedman |
| Parents | James Jefferson Allen, Dorothea Marie Wirth |
| Siblings | Mary Allen, Lynn Allen, David Allen |
| IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000260/ |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress, Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Come… |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Pictur… |
| Movies | The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Legacy, Death Race, Room, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, The Upside of Anger, Face/Off, Pleasantville, The Contender, The Notebook, The Ice Storm, Manhunter, A Good Marriage, The Crucible, Peggy Sue Got Married, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Tucker: The Ma… |
| TV Shows | Evergreen |
| # | Quote |
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| 1 | It’s such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I’ve made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing. |
| 2 | Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously. |
| 3 | I think there’s been a tendency to place me in what has been characterized as the “moral center” of the film. In films like The Ice Storm (1997), The Crucible (1996) and Nixon (1995), that’s the sort of the persona that emerged. |
| 4 | How do we escape who we are? I think going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn’t known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town. |
| 5 | I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honor roll, part of the choir . . . I played the cello badly. I did plays. |
| 6 | I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognize it. I think the cheerleading thing was a way of performing. There was the boy element, but more important was the performance element. Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it. |
| 7 | I’m hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. I get recognized sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it’s not a problem. I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingénue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer or Jessica Lange. I’m a bit quirkier than that. |
| 8 | Over 50% of Americans don’t agree with the administration [of President George W. Bush]; that’s a lot of people. But they don’t get the press. I know myself and my friends in New York were devastated after the last election [2004]. We could hardly stand up it was so devastating. And those are the people that I’m around a fair amount. |
| 9 | I was a very good girl for a long time, that’s what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things. |
| 10 | To tell you the truth, if Oliver Stone had wanted Pat Nixon to wear a G-string and swing from a chandelier, I would have played it that way. |
| 11 | I was very shy, but was desperate to meet boys. So my sister told me to be a cheerleader. I didn’t make cheerleading squad, so I thought, “Why not try out for a play?” As soon as I did I found out I absolutely loved it. I could cry and scream and laugh, but in a controlled environment. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | She was awarded the 1987 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for “Burn This” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California. |
| 2 | Is left-handed. |
| 3 | Her father was of English, German, and Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) ancestry. Her mother’s family was German. |
| 4 | She was nominated for a 1990 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for “Reckless” at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 5 | She was awarded the 1986 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for “A Lesson from Aloes”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 6 | She was awarded the 1983 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for “And a Nightingale Sang”, at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 7 | Studied acting at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston under Glendon Gabbard. |
| 8 | Parents: Dorothy Allen, a housewife, and Jeff Allen, a gas-station owner. Her father died in 1995. |
| 9 | Joan has two sisters: Mary Allen (b. 1940), Lynn Allen (b. 1954) and a brother named David Allen (b. 1943). |
| 10 | Graduated from the same university as Dan Castellaneta, Justin Mentell, and Matt Ricci. |
| 11 | Chosen as Most Likely to Succeed by friends when graduating from high school. |
| 12 | Mother was a homemaker and father was a garage attendant. |
| 13 | Is the youngest of 4 children. |
| 14 | Her Boston terrier is called Nora. |
| 15 | Won the 1988 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for her Broadway debut in Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This.” She was again nominated the next year (1989) in the same category for Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles.”. |
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