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Joanna Gleason (née Hall; born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is a Tony Award–winning musical theatre actress and has also had a number of notable film and TV roles. She's known for originating the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her film work in Mike Nichols' Heartburn (1985), Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). She has had television roles in shows such as Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife and The Affair.

Joanna Gleason
Born	Joanne Hall[1] (1950-06-02) June 2, 1950 (age 72) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1972–present
Spouses	Paul G. Gleason ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1982)​ Michael Bennahum ​ ​ (m. 1984; div. 1990)​ Chris Sarandon ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	1
Parents	Monty Hall (father) Marilyn Hall (mother)

Early life

Joanne Hall was born in Winnipeg, the eldest of three siblings born to television producer and game show personality Monty Hall, and his wife, Marilyn (née Plottel), both of whom died in 2017.[2] At the time of her birth, her father was working at the Canada Wheat Board and had changed his name from Halparin to Hall. He later started his TV career and went on to fame as host of Let's Make a Deal.[3]

In May 1956, the Hall family moved to New York and, in the early 1960s, they moved to Los Angeles.

Hall graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1968.[1] She was in the school's productions of The Music Man, The Mikado, The Grass Harp, and The Madwoman of Chaillot. In high school, Gleason received acting instruction from John Ingle, the soap opera star, who taught at BHHS from 1955 to 1985. She continued her education at UCLA,[4] then Occidental College, from which she graduated. Gleason has been a teacher herself, holding classes and workshops all over the country.[5]

Career

Although Gleason started her acting career in television, she is best known for her stage and musical theatre work. She made her Broadway debut in 1977 in I Love My Wife,[6] for which she was honored with a Theatre World Award.[7]

Additional Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg,[8] Nick & Nora,[9] Into the Woods (for which she won several awards including a Tony Award in the lead role of the Baker's Wife,[10] which she also played in the PBS Great Performances production of the musical), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,[11] and The Cartells.[12]

Her film and television career began in 1977 with her first appearance on her father's program Let's Make A Deal. In 1979, she was cast as a supporting character in Hello, Larry, a role she held throughout the oft-maligned sitcom's two-season run. She had film roles in Hannah and Her Sisters and Heartburn (both 1986).[7] In the television movie Still the Beaver she played Beaver's ex-wife, Kimberly. Gleason worked again with Woody Allen in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), this time playing the wife of Allen's character.[13] Gleason appeared in several films in the 1990s, including F/X2,[14] Mr. Holland's Opus, Boogie Nights, and The Boys. More recently she has appeared in The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, The Wedding Planner,[15] and The Newsroom. On television, she played the role of Nadine Berkus on the show Love & War (1992–95), several episodes of which she also directed.

She played Joan Silver on Temporarily Yours (1997).[16] Gleason starred in the Lifetime series Oh Baby as Charlotte from 1998 to 2000, also directing episodes of this show. Shortly following the end of this series, she starred opposite Bette Midler and Lindsay Lohan on Bette as agent Connie Randolph.[17] Her numerous guest starring TV credits include episodes of The West Wing, The Practice, King of the Hill, Friends, Password Plus, Tracey Takes On..., Murphy Brown, ER and The Outer Limits. Gleason appeared in six episodes of the Canadian black comedy series Sensitive Skin as Veronica, from 2014 to 2016.

In 2007, Gleason was honoured by the New England Theatre Conference with a Special Award for Achievement in Theatre.[18]

Personal life

Gleason has been married three times. She was married to acting coach Paul G. Gleason (not the actor Paul X. Gleason, also known as Paul Gleason), whose surname she kept professionally, although they divorced on June 28, 1982, in Nevada. Later, she married Michael Bennahum.[3] Gleason has one child, Aaron David Gleason, from her first marriage.

Gleason has been married to actor Chris Sarandon since 1994. The two met while performing in Broadway's short-lived 1991 musical Nick & Nora, returned to the stage together in 1998's Thorn and Bloom,[19] and collaborated on several films, such as Road Ends, Edie & Pen, Let the Devil Wear Black, and American Perfekt.

Gleason's siblings are television writer/director Sharon Hall Kessler and Emmy award-winning television writer/director Richard Hall.[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Carol
1986	Heartburn	Diana
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Wendy Stern
1991	F/X2	Liz Kennedy
1995	Mr. Holland's Opus	Adult Gertrude
1996	Edie & Pen	Maudie
1997	American Perfekt	Shirley
1997	Boogie Nights	Dirk's Mother
1997	Road Ends	Armacost
1999	Let the Devil Wear Black	Dr. Rona Hackley
2001	The Wedding Planner	Mrs. Donolly
2006	Wedding Daze	Lois
2007	The Girl in the Park	Sarah
2008	Sex and the City	Therapist
2008	My Sassy Girl	Kitty/Aunt Sally
2008	The Women	Barbara
2009	The Rebound	Roberta Finklestein
2013	Last Vegas	Miriam Harris
2014	The Skeleton Twins	Judy

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Diff'rent Strokes	Morgan Winslow	3 episodes
1979–80	Hello, Larry		37 episodes
1981	Bosom Buddies	Faith Crane	Episode: "What Price Glory?"
1982	Love, Sidney	Gail	Episode: "The Activist"
1983	The New Leave It to Beaver	Kimberly	Episode: "Still the Beaver"
1983	Great Day	Jennifer Simpson	Television movie
1991	Into the Woods	Baker's Wife	Televised Broadway performance
1991	The Boys	Marie	Television movie
1992	For Richer, for Poorer	Irene	Television movie
1992–95	Love & War	Nadine Berkus	67 episodes
1993	Born Too Soon	Annemarie	Television movie
1994	For the Love of Aaron	Shirley	Television movie
1996	The Outer Limits	Leslie	Episode: "Inconstant Moon"
1996	ER	Iris	3 episodes
1996	If These Walls Could Talk	Julia (segment: 1974)	Television movie
1996–98	Tracey Takes On...	Katherine Hawkins LeAnne the Stewardess	2 episodes
1997	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Delia Young	Voice; Episode: "Generosity"
1997	Temporarily Yours	Joan Silver	6 episodes
1997	Perversions of Science	Mrs. Rabe	Episode: "Anatomy Lesson"
1997	Murphy Brown	Athena Gillington	Episode: "Petty Woman"
1997–2004	King of the Hill	Various Roles	Voice; 8 episodes
1998	George and Leo	Teacher	Episode: "The Teacher"
1999	Friends	Kim Clozzi	2 episodes
1998–2000	Oh Baby	Charlotte St. John	28 episodes
2000–01	Bette	Connie Randolph	18 episodes
2001	The Practice	Henrietta Lightstone	2 episodes
2001–02	The West Wing	Jordon Kendall	5 episodes
2005	Fathers and Sons	Silvia	Television movie
2009–12	The Good Wife	Judge Romano	3 episodes
2010	How to Make It in America	Ben's Mother	Episode: "Paper, Denim + Dollars"
2010	Delocated	Dr. Mitchell	Episode: Conversions
2011	Royal Pains	Evelyn Woodward	Episode: Rash Talk
2013	Blue Bloods	Grace Newhouse	2 episodes
2014	The Newsroom	Nancy Skinner	Episode: "What Kind of Day Has It Been"
2014–16	Sensitive Skin	Veronica	6 episodes
2015	The Affair	Yvonne	3 episodes
2019	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Janice Hoffman	Episode: "Kimmy is in a Love Square!"
2021	The Bite	Veruca Dumont	3 episodes

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Notes
1972	Fiddler on the Roof	Tzeitel[21]	Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Regional
1974	Hamlet	Ophelia[22]	Mark Taper Forum, Regional	Understudy
1975	All My Sons	Ann Deever[23]	Huntington Hartford Theatre, Regional
1975	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying	Rosemary[22]	Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Regional	Understudy
1977–78	I Love My Wife	Monica	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
1980	On a Clear Day You Can See Forever	Daisy Gamble/Melinda	Regional Tour
1984	A Hell of a Town	n/a	Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway
1984	The Real Thing	Charlotte	Plymouth Theatre, Broadway	Replacement
1985	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Pam	Haft Theater, Off-Broadway
1985			Longacre Theatre, Broadway
1985–86	It's Only a Play	Virginia Noyles	New York City Center Stage I, Off-Broadway
1986	Social Security	Trudy Heyman	Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway
1986–87	Into the Woods	The Baker's Wife	Old Globe Theatre, Regional
1987–88			Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway
1989	Eleemosynary	Artie	New York City Center Stage II, Off-Broadway
1991	Nick & Nora	Nora Charles	Marquis Theatre, Broadway
2004	The Normal Heart	Dr. Emma Brookner	Anspacher Theater, Off-Broadway
2004	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Muriel Eubanks	Old Globe Theatre, Regional
2005–06			Imperial Theatre, Broadway
2008	Something You Did	Alison	59E59 Theaters, Off-Broadway
2009	Happiness	Arlene	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Off-Broadway
2011	Sons of the Prophet	Gloria	Huntington Theatre Company, Regional
2011–12			Laura Pels Theatre, Off-Broadway

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Project	Result
1985	Tony Award	Best Featured Actress in a Play	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Nominated
1988		Best Actress in a Musical	Into the Woods	Won
2005		Best Featured Actress in a Musical	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Nominated
1985	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play	Joe Egg	Nominated
1986			It's Only a Play	Won
			Social Security	Won
1988		Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical	Into the Woods	Won
2005			Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Nominated
1988	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outstanding Actress in a Musical	Into the Woods	Won
2005		Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	Nominated
2012		Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play	Sons of the Prophet	Nominated
1977	Theatre World Award	—	I Love My Wife	Won

References

External links

• Joanna Gleason at the Internet Broadway Database
• Joanna Gleason at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Joanna Gleason at IMDb
• Joanna Gleason – Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Joanna Gleason
• BroadwayWorld: Holtzman's 'Something You Did' Premieres Off-Bway with Gleason

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[de] Joanna Gleason

Joanna Gleason (* 2. Juni 1950 in Winnipeg, Manitoba als Joanna Hall[1]) ist eine kanadische Schauspielerin, die Erfolge als Darstellerin in Film und Fernsehen, vor allem aber in der Theaterszene feiern konnte.

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[ru] Глисон, Джоанна

Джоанна Глисон (англ. Joanna Gleason, наст. имя Джоанн Холл англ. Joanne Hall; род. 2 июня 1950 года) — канадская актриса и певица, лауреат премии «Тони».

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