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{{short description|American actress (born 1943)}}
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'''Joan Van Ark''' (born June 16, 1943)<ref>{{cite news |title=Star talk |publisher=] |date=2009-06-16 |accessdate=2009-07-15 |page=8B}}</ref> is an American ], most notable for her role as ], which she originated on the ] hit ] '']'' and continued for thirteen seasons on its long-running ], '']''. Van Ark has also received a ] and been nominated for a ] for her stage work. '''Joan Martha Van Ark''' (born June 16, 1943)<ref>{{cite news| title=Staff| newspaper=]| date=June 16, 2009| page=8B}}</ref> is an American actress. She is best known for her role as ] on the primetime soap opera ''].'' A life member of ],<ref>{{cite book| first=David| last=Garfield| title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio| year=1980| publisher=MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc.| location=New York| isbn=978-0025426504| page=280| chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t2g3AAAAIAAJ&q=joan+van+ark|url-access=subscription }}</ref> she made her ] debut in 1966 in '']''. In 1971, she received a ] and was nominated for the ] for the revival of '']''.


In 1978, Van Ark landed her most famous role of Valene Ewing. The character first appeared on the ] series '']'', then was a leading character for 13 seasons on its spin-off '']'' (1979–92). For her performance on ''Knots Landing,'' she won the ] for Best Actress in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the series' final two episodes in 1993 as well as the 1997 miniseries '']''. In 1985, she received a ] nomination as host of the '']'' on CBS. From 2004 to 2005, she starred in the soap opera '']''. She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new '']'' series in 2013.
==Early life==
Van Ark was born in ], the daughter of Dorothy Jean (] Hemenway), a writer, and Carroll Van Ark, who was born in ], and worked in ] and ].<ref></ref><ref></ref> Her father named her after ] because he was certain that she would become famous.<ref></ref> Van Ark's paternal great-grandfather, Gradus, was an immigrant from the ].<ref></ref> Both of Van Ark's parents and her sister, Carol, were writers.<ref name=courant/> She grew up in ], and also has a brother, Mark.


==Early life and education==
At the age of 15, as a student reporter, Van Ark met and interviewed actress ], who later recommended Van Ark apply to the ]. Harris had been the youngest student to attend the school on scholarship. Van Ark was also granted a scholarship, and was one of the few students to attend the graduate program without first having earned an undergraduate degree. She attended for only one year. Years later, Harris appeared on ], playing the mother of Van Ark's character.<ref name=courant>{{cite news |title=This Joan of Ark is in Town to Worship at Her 'Church' |publisher=] |date=2006-04-05 |accessdate=2009-07-15 |author=Seremet, Pat |page=D1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= From the Soaps to the Shakespeare - Actress Joan Van Ark Returns to Her True Love, the Stage |date=2000-06-03 |accessdate=2009-07-15 |publisher=] |author=Triplett, William Triplett |page=C1}}</ref>
Joan Martha Van Ark was born on June 16, 1943, in New York City to Dorothy Jean Van Ark<!-- https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/196617%7C0/Joan-Van-Ark/ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11114146/dorothy-jean-van_ark Dorothy Jean Hemenway was born on 30 April 1917 to Eldon Carlisle Hemenway and Dorothy Case Rust. She died on 7 August 1983, in Boulder, Colorado, and was buried in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States. --> (née Hemenway) (1917-1983) and Carroll Clement Van Ark (1897-1972).<!-- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187850816/carroll-van_ark --> Van Ark's father was an ] and ] consultant, photographer and contributor to periodicals such as '']'' and ''].'' Carroll Van Ark's paternal grandfather Gradus was an immigrant from The Netherlands who settled in ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-28 |title=Joan van Ark - Naf.. The Netherland-American Foundation |url=https://thenaf.org/joan-van-ark/#:~:text=Joan%20van%20Ark's%20Great%20Grandfather,as%20the%20Town%20Wine%20Maker. |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=thenaf.org |language=en-US}}</ref> Both of Van Ark's parents were also writers.<ref name=courant/> After 1952, Van Ark grew up in Boulder, Colorado, with three siblings: Carol, Mark and Dexter. <!-- https://vault.si.com/vault/1955/07/04/the-wonderful-world-of-sport -->

<blockquote>"My dad was in ] in Denver. When I was 16, he arranged for her (]) to speak with me. She ended up calling the dean of the Yale School of Drama, who agreed to meet with me. I became the second woman after Julie to be admitted when it was all men."<ref name="yahoo/130938251">{{cite news |title=Joan Van Ark Is Still ‘Closely Connected’ With Her ‘Knots Landing’ Costars: It’s a ‘Sisterhood’ |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joan-van-ark-still-closely-130938251.html |access-date=7 September 2024 |work=Yahoo Entertainment |date=21 December 2023}}</ref> - Joan Van Ark</blockquote>

At age 15 as a student reporter, Van Ark met and interviewed actress ], who recommended that Van Ark apply to the ], which Harris had attended in her early twenties. Van Ark followed in Harris' footsteps and went to Yale Drama on a scholarship. In 1964,<ref name=dropouts/> Van Ark was one of the few acceptees to attend the Yale graduate program without first having earned an undergraduate degree. Van Ark was also reportedly the only female student on campus at the time. She attended for only one year. Years later, Harris appeared on '']'' as ], the mother of ], Van Ark's character.<ref name=courant>{{cite news| title=This Joan of Ark is in Town to Worship at Her 'Church'| newspaper=]| date=April 5, 2006| last=Seremet| first=Pat| page=D1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Actress Joan Van Ark Returns to Her True Love, the Stage| date=June 3, 2000| newspaper=]| last=Triplett| first=William| page=C1}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=dropouts>{{Cite web|title=Yale Alumni Magazine: famous Yalie dropouts (March 2001)|url=<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20140810062222/http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/dropouts.html -->http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/01_03/dropouts.html|access-date=2020-12-08|website=archives.yalealumnimagazine.com}}</ref>

After Harris died in 2013, Van Ark announced at a Broadway memorial service the creation of the Julie Harris Scholarship, which provides annual support to an actor studying at the Yale Drama School.<!-- https://www.drama.yale.edu/about-us/named-spaces/ --> ], who played Harris' son and Van Ark's brother on '']'', made the first contribution.<ref>{{Cite web|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Julie Harris Scholarship Established at Yale School of Drama|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/connecticut/article/Julie-Harris-Scholarship-Established-at-Yale-School-of-Drama-20131205|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Broadway World|language=en}}</ref> In 2021, Yale Drama became tuition-free and was rebranded the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Paulson|first=Michael|date=2021-06-30|title=Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/theater/yale-drama-david-geffen-tuition.html|access-date=2021-11-02|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
] in '']'' (1968)]]
Van Ark began her professional career at the ] in ]'s '']'', opposite ] and ]. That was followed by '']'' at the Guthrie with both Cronyn and ]. After a season at the ] in ], she was then cast in the national touring company of '']'', directed by ]. She recreated the role in the critically acclaimed London Company and later on ]. She earned a ] <ref></ref> and received a ] nomination <ref></ref> in 1971 for her performance in '']''.


Van Ark began her professional career at the ] in ]'s '']'' and appeared opposite ] and ]. That was followed by '']'' at the Guthrie with both Cronyn and ]. After a season at the ] in Washington, D.C., she originated the role of Corie in the national touring company of '']'', directed by ]. In 1966, she recreated the role at the ] in the critically acclaimed London Company when she replaced ], who had pulled out due to a ligament injury; and later that same year, Van Ark made her Broadway debut as Corie at the ] and became one of the successors of ], who three years earlier had appeared in the original Broadway production.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}
After receiving a contract with ], Van Ark co-starred with ] in '']'', a 1972 ] that failed to be picked up by ]. After working for several years in a variety of guest roles on television, she gained her best-known role as Valene Ewing (originally as a one-time guest appearance on ''Dallas'') in 1978. However, writers later worked the character into a couple of additional episodes; she then carried the character over into the long-running spin-off ''Knots Landing'' in 1979. She remained with ''Knots Landing'' for thirteen of the show's fourteen seasons, leaving in 1992 (although she did return for the series' final episode in May 1993). In the story line she was married three times to husband ] played in the series by ]. During her thirteen seasons on ''Knots Landing'', Van Ark earned six nominations and two ] for Best Actress. During the series' run, Van Ark became best friends with co-star ], mirroring their characters' on-screen relationship. Van Ark also starred in the TV comedies, '']'' and ''We've Got Each Other''. After leaving Knots Landing, she starred in an ill-fated pilot called ''Spin Doctors'', a sitcom for NBC that was not picked up. In May 1997, she reprised her role of Valene Ewing in the ] mini-series, ''Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-sac'', while in December 2005, Van Ark appeared in the non-fiction reunion ''Knots Landing: Together Again'' in which she reminisced with the other cast members of the long running CBS television show. In addition, she originated the role of ] on CBS television's '']'' from 2004 - 2005, then decided to leave the role and was replaced by ].


Van Ark and her new husband moved to ], where she started garnering television credits. In 1971, she revisited Broadway, where she earned a ] and received a ] nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play) for her performance as Agnès in Molière's ''],'' directed by ]<ref>{{Cite web|title=The School for Wives (Broadway, Lyceum Theatre, 1971)|url=https://playbill.com/production/the-school-for-wives-lyceum-theatre-vault-0000007137|access-date=2022-01-27|website=Playbill|language=en}}</ref>
Van Ark also appeared ] opposite John Rubenstein in '']''. More recently, she co-starred in the New York production of ]'s ] winning play '']''. Her Los Angeles theater credits include '']'' - playing Roxanne opposite ]'s Cyrano - ''Ring Around the Moon'' with ] and ], '']'', '']'', and '']'', for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. She also appeared as Lady Macbeth in the Grove Shakespeare Festival's production of '']''.


Van Ark starred opposite ] and ] in the horror film ], which was theatrically released on March 10, 1972.
Van Ark has also starred in the Williamstown Theater Festival productions of '']'', ''The Legend of Oedipus'', and the festival's 40th anniversary production of ]'s '']''.


After receiving a contract with ], Van Ark co-starred with ] in '']'', a 1972 two-hour ] and ] that failed to be picked up by ].<!-- {{Citation needed |date=July 2024}} = '']'' --> Van Ark played the role of Erika in '']'' in 1973 in the episode entitled "Radar's Report,” in which she rejects the prospect of marriage to Hawkeye (]). Van Ark was also a regular ] of the short-lived television sitcoms '']'' (1972–73) and '']'' (1977–78).
Van Ark has played a variety of guest roles in her career, including an episode of '']'' where she played a nurse, and '']'' playing Rhoda's husband's ex-wife. In 1978, she also appeared in an episode of ''Wonder Woman'' with Ted Shackleford who would later become her screen husband Gary Ewing on Knots Landing. She was also the voice of ] in the short-lived ].


In 1974, Van Ark, tapped as a late replacement for ], returned to Broadway as Silia Gala in a revival of Pirandello's ], which was performed by the ] at the ] and also featured ], who, in addition to playing a bit part as a neighbor, served as Van Ark's understudy in the lead role of Silia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Rules of the Game Original Broadway Cast - 1974 Broadway|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/cast.php?showid=323546|access-date=2020-10-17|website=www.broadwayworld.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Glenn Close Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Glenn-Close/|access-date=2021-01-03|website=www.broadwayworld.com|language=en}}</ref> ''Game'' reunited Van Ark with ''School for Wives'' director Stephen Porter as well as ''Wives'' co-star ]. In 1975, a production of ''Game'' was also broadcast on '']'' as one of its ''Theatre in America'' selections''.''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rules of the Game|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479688/rules-of-the-game|access-date=2020-10-17|website=www.tcm.com|language=en}}</ref>
In 2001, Van Ark was featured in an episode of the ]-produced show '']'' as Ima Cummings, the mother of show regular BJ Cummings (played by ]). The episode aired in April of that year.


Van Ark co-starred opposite ] in the science fiction outing '']'', which was filmed at Tsuburaya Studios in Tokyo and on location in the ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Homenick|first=Brett|date=2018-08-19|title=CHASING THE LAST DINOSAUR! A Candid Conversation with Joan van Ark!|url=https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2018/08/19/chasing-the-last-dinosaur-a-candid-conversation-with-joan-van-ark/|access-date=2020-12-06|website=Vantage Point Interviews|language=en}}</ref> The picture was intended to be released theatrically but failed to find a distributor and instead aired as a TV movie in February 1977.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}
In 2008, Van Ark was reunited with her Knots Landing co-star ] in an episode of the ] drama series '']''.


In addition, Van Ark performed the voice of ] in the short-lived ].{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}
She also appeared at the ] awards in April 2009 where Knots Landing was being honoured on its 30 year anniversary. Other Knots Landing actors that appeared with her include Kevin Dobson, Lisa Hartman Black, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, Donna Mills, Don Murray, Michelle Phillips, and Ted Shackelford.


After working for several years in a variety of guest roles on television, in 1978, she gained her best-known role as Valene Ewing (originally as a one-time appearance) on ] Van Ark kept a tight schedule and was flying a lot the week of her ''Dallas'' debut, as ''Dallas'' was being filmed in Texas and she was simultaneously shooting an episode of '']'' in L.A. and doing voiceover work for ] in New York.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McGrath|first=Nick|date=2014-01-12|title=Joan Van Ark: My husband had to make me guest-appear in Dallas|url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/453174/Joan-Van-Ark-My-husband-had-to-make-me-guest-appear-in-Dallas|access-date=2020-10-15|website=Express.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal==

Joan Van Ark has been married to husband John Marshall, a former reporter with ], since February 1, 1966. They have one child, ]/performer ] (born October 19, 1969).
However, writers later worked the character into a couple of additional episodes; and in 1979, Van Ark then carried the Valene character over into the long-running spin-off, ''],'' in which she co-starred for thirteen of the show's fourteen seasons. She left in 1992, although she did return for its final two episodes in May 1993. Her character was married three times to husband ], played in the series by ]; and during the show's run, also had two other marriages: to Ben Gibson (]) and Danny Waleska (]).

During her thirteen years on ''Knots Landing'', Van Ark earned two ] for Best Actress (1986, 1989) and was nominated an additional six times. Over the course of the program, Van Ark probably received her greatest recognition as an actress during the sixth year, which featured an intricate storyline involving the theft of Valene's twin babies. Their disappearance (and alleged stillborn deaths) provoked Valene to embark on a surreal spiritual journey and pilgrimage in which she left the cul-de-sac in California and morphed into the persona of a character from a novel she had written.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=L|first1=Knots|last2=Fan|first2=ing|date=2020-09-22|title=The Joan Van Ark Exclusive Interview|url=http://www.knotslanding.net/interviews/joan2.htm|access-date=2020-10-11|website=Knots Landing.net|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=L|first1=Knots|last2=Fan|first2=ing|date=2021-01-07|title=Joan Van Ark Returns – Exclusive Interview #2|url=http://www.knotslanding.net/interviews/joanvanark.htm|access-date=2021-01-22|website=Knots Landing.net|language=en-US}}</ref>

<blockquote>"The face-washing scene was an example of when I felt couldn’t have gone better. It was everything we were all after. It became a monologue where I felt Valene should change and the audience should go with her on that journey. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I feel that that scene where Val washed her face was the deepest one. It was so rich. There was a combination of the cameraman, the writers, the producers, the director — they all allowed me that monologue in the mirror. We saw Valene become Verna right in front of our eyes."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maloney |first=Michael |date=2024-09-12 |title=Exclusive: Joan Van Ark Reveals The 'Knots Landing' Scene That is Closest to Her Heart |url=https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/19296/joan-van-ark-knots-landing-streaming-exclusive-interview/ |access-date=2024-09-14 |website=Remind |language=en-US}}</ref> - Joan Van Ark </blockquote>

This dark, gripping tale earned ''Knots Landing'' its only placement ever on ] In the 1984–1985 season finale, "The Long and Winding Road," Val finds out that her babies are still alive, and this episode's original broadcast on May 23, 1985, also marked the only time ''Knots Landing'' ever reached the #1 spot in the weekly ]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKairnes |first=Jim |title='Knots Landing' at 40: Remembering TV's soapy spinoff that outlasted 'Dallas' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/12/26/knots-landing-40-gary-and-valene-left-their-mark-primetime/2736863001/ |access-date=2024-09-12 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jr |first=Kevin Mulcahy |title=INTERVIEW: From Theater to TV to the Web - Joan Van Ark, Part 1 |url=https://www.welovesoaps.net/2011/06/joanvanark1.html |access-date=2024-09-12 |language=en}}</ref> In its edition dated June 29, 1985, ] assessed of her performance: "''Knots Landing'' has the grimmest plots but the strongest cast, headed by the incomparable Joan Van Ark as Valene."<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Irreverent Look at the Past Season: The Best and Worst We Saw|url=http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/archive/suboffer/1980s/1985/19850629_c1.jpg.html|access-date=2021-11-02|website=www.tvguidemagazine.com|language=en}}</ref> Later on, she directed two of the series' episodes, one in the last season after she was no longer a regular performer on the serial.

In 1985, she also co-hosted with ] CBS' ''],'' which received a ] nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program.

Mirroring their characters' onscreen friendship, Van Ark and ''KL'' co-star ] became good friends while working together on the series. In May 1997, Van Ark reprised her role of Valene Ewing in the ] mini-series ''];'' while in December 2005, she appeared in the non-fiction reunion ''],'' in which she reminisced with the other cast members about the long-running ] television show.

Shortly before leaving ''Knots Landing'', she starred opposite ] in an ill-fated pilot called ''Spin Doctors'', a sitcom for NBC that was not picked up.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

An '']'' called ''Boys Will Be Boys: The Ali Cooper Story'' (1994), which she appeared in and directed, was nominated for a ] In 1997, Van Ark also directed a documentary short on homelessness and domestic violence for the ], and the piece was nominated for an ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Joan Van Ark Biography|url=http://www.joanvanark.com/bio.html|access-date=2020-10-12|website=www.joanvanark.com}}</ref>

She originated the role of ] on CBS television's '']'' from 2004 to 2005, then decided to leave the role and was replaced by ].

Van Ark also appeared ] opposite ] in ''],'' as well as in ]'s ] winning '']'' at the Promenade Theatre and ] at the Bleecker Street Theatre. In 2000, she performed in ] in Washington, D.C.

Her Los Angeles theater credits include: '']'' as Roxanne, as well as '']'', '']'', '']'' and '']'', for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. Opposite ], she appeared as Lady Macbeth in the Grove Shakespeare Festival's production of ''],'' produced by Charles Johanson''.''

Van Ark has also starred in three ] productions: '']'' (1987),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Night of the Iguana, The|url=https://wtfestival.org/main-events/night-of-the-iguana-the-2/|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Williamstown Theatre Festival|language=en-US}}</ref> the 40th anniversary presentation of ]'s '']'' (1994) <ref>{{Cite web|title=Little Night Music, A|url=https://wtfestival.org/main-events/little-night-music-a/|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Williamstown Theatre Festival|language=en-US}}</ref> and ''The Legend of Oedipus'' (1988), which is a five-hour, two-part adaptation by Kenneth Cavander of the classic Greek tragedies and was directed by WTF co-founder ],<ref>{{Cite news|date=1988-07-06|title=SUMMER THEATER. Would Sophocles recognize Williamstown's version of 'Oedipus'?|work=Christian Science Monitor|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0706/lwil-f1.html|access-date=2020-10-12|issn=0882-7729}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Legend of Oedipus, The|url=https://wtfestival.org/main-events/legend-of-oedipus-the/|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Williamstown Theatre Festival|language=en-US}}</ref> who was also Van Ark's acting professor when she was attending the ].

Later stage work includes: her origination of the role of Mrs. Fenway in ''Escape,'' one of the newly discovered ]' shorts featured as part of the ''Five by Tenn'' collection at the ] in 2004;<ref>{{Cite web|title=More by Tenn {{!}} TheaterMania|url=https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/more-by-tenn_4653.html|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.theatermania.com|language=en-US}}</ref> the 2005 ] production of ''Private Fittings'', directed by ], and a presentation of '']'' in 2006 at the Hartford Stage.<ref name=":0" />

Her TV movies include: ''With Harmful Intent'' opposite former Yale classmate ] and ] as her husband Paul; ], in which she plays the younger woman in a romantic triangle with ] and ]; '']'' opposite ]; '']''; and based on the novel by ], ''],'' in which she portrays a radio psychologist opposite ] as her brother Lloyd and ] as Detective Lieberman.

Van Ark has also performed in a variety of guest roles, including on episodes of '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']'' (in which she played the ex-wife of Rhoda's husband). She appeared in three separate episodes of '']'', '']'' and '']'', and four separate episodes of '']''. In 1978, she also appeared in an episode of '']'' with Ted Shackelford, who would later become her onscreen husband Gary Ewing on both ''Dallas'' and ''Knots Landing''. Post-''KL'' guest spots include: '']'' and ''].''

In April 2001, Van Ark was featured in an episode of the ]-produced show '']'' as Ima Cummings, the mother of show regular BJ Cummings (played by ]). In 2008, she was reunited with her ''Knots Landing'' co-star ] in an episode of the ] drama series '']''. The same year, she also played a network executive in the film ''Channels.''

In April 2009, Van Ark appeared at the ] awards, where ''Knots Landing'' was being honored on its 30-year anniversary. Other ''Knots Landing'' actors who were present included ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ], along with ''Dallas''/''Knots Landing'' creator ]

In 2011, she performed voice work in an episode of the animated comedy series '']''. In 2013, she guest-starred in an episode of the new '']'' series, in which she reprised the role of Valene Ewing. The same year, she also appeared as a guest judge on the ] series '']''.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

==Personal life==
On February 1, 1966, Van Ark married news reporter John Marshall, who later became a correspondent for two decades at ] and won both an Emmy and a ].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1992-02-28|title=Marshall Hired by Channel 13|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-28-ca-2986-story.html|access-date=2021-08-03|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> Van Ark and Marshall were high school sweethearts in Boulder, Colorado, and wed in ], where Marshall was stationed at the time in the Armed Forces Television Service. For their honeymoon, they took a European tour of places made famous by her namesake, ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last1=L|first1=Knots|last2=Fan|first2=ing|date=2020-12-07|title=Joan Van Ark in TV Guide|url=http://www.knotslanding.net/tvguide/guide2.htm|access-date=2021-01-06|website=Knots Landing.net|language=en-US}}</ref>

The couple's only child is voice actress, model, and singer ]. In 1997, mother and daughter appeared together in the play ''Star Dust'' at the ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Celebrity Collector - Joan van Ark|url=http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/vanark.htm|access-date=2020-10-15|website=www.go-star.com}}</ref>

Van Ark is a long-distance runner who has participated in 14 marathons and made the cover of ''].''<ref name=":1" />

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1967
| '']''
| Donna Hayward
| 2 episodes
|-
| rowspan=3| 1968
| '']''
| Lynne Thackeray
| Episode: "A Fashion for Dying"
|-
| '']''
| Paula
| 2 episodes
|-
| '']''
| April Showers
| Episode: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet"
|-
| rowspan=3| 1969
| '']''
| Laurie
| Episode: "The Man Who Killed Jim Sonnett"
|-
| '']''
| Annie Laurie Adams
| Episode: "Sweet Annie Laurie"
|-
| '']''
| Sarah Jean Stryker
| Episode: "Stryker"
|-
| rowspan=5| 1970
| '']''
| Freda Cowan
| Episode: "The Double Wall"
|-
| '']''
| Janene Whitney #3
| 17 episodes
|-
| '']''
| Hanson
| Episode: "The Condemned"
|-
| '']''
| Louise Hanson
| Episode: "A Deadly Game of Love"
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| '']''
| Harrison's Secretary
| Episode: "The Union Forever"
|-
| rowspan=2| 1971
| '']''
| Evelyn Baker
| Episode: "Close Up"
|-
| '']''
| Carla
| Episode: The Deadly Gift
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| 1970–1972
| '']''
| Alice
| 2 episodes
|-
| rowspan=3| 1972
| '']''
| Karen Crockett
|
|-
| '']''
| Alicia Dodd
| TV movie and series pilot
|-
| '']''
| Sondra Blanco
| Episode: "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes"
|-
| 1972–1973
| '']''
| Annie Carlisle
| 26 episodes
|-
| 1973
| '']''
| Jennifer Crane
| Episode: "The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress"
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1974
| ''Big Rose: Double Trouble''
| Nina
| TV movie
|-
| '']''
| Sheila Barner
| Episode: "The Challenge"
|-
| '']''
| Barbara Kelbaker
Susan Alexander
| Episode: "Find Me If You Can."
Episode: s2:e4 "Resurrection in Black and White."
|-
| '']''
| Anna Meister
| Episode: "The Man Who Couldn't Forget"
|-
| rowspan=3| 1975
| '']''
| Silia Gala
|
|-
| '']''
| Marian Gerard
| Episode: "Rhoda Meets the Ex-Wife"
|-
| '']''
| Cora Munro (voice)
|
|-
| rowspan=2| 1977
| '']''
| Francesca 'Frankie' Banks
| TV movie
|-
| '']''
| Detective Jo Lang
|
|-
|1977
| ''McMillan'' (formerly '']'')
| Georgie
| Episode: "Have You Heard About Vanessa?"
|-
| 1977–1978
| '']''
| Dee Dee Baldwin
| 13 episodes
|-
| rowspan=3| 1978
| '']''
| Bert Phillips
| Episode: "Gone But Not Forgotten"
|-
| '']''
| Princess Libido
| 2 episodes
|-
| '']''
| Cassandra
| Episode: "Time Bomb"
|-
| 1973
| '']''
| Lt. Erika Johnson
| Episode: Radar's Report
|-
| 1978-1980
| '']''
| Moray (voice)
|
|-
| 1979
| '']''
| ] (voice)
|
|-
| 1979–1984
| '']''
| Deborah Marshall/Kris Hayley/Mary Sue Huggins
| 4 episodes
|-
| 1981
| ''Red Flag: The Ultimate Game''
| Marie
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2| 1988
| ''Shakedown on the Sunset Strip''
| Brenda Allen
| TV movie
|-
| '']''
| Claire Thomas
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2| 1990
| '']''
| Martha "Marty" Mendham
| TV movie
|-
| ''Menu for Murder''
| Julia Alberts
| TV movie
|-
| 1978–1981, 1991
| '']''
| ]
| 8 episodes
|-
| 1979–1993
| '']''
| ]
| 327 episodes<br>] (1986, 1989)<br>] (2009)<br>Nominated – ] (1988, 1991)
|-
| rowspan=1| 1993
| ''In the Shadows, Someone's Watching (AKA With Harmful Intent)''
| Cinnie Merritt
| TV movie
|-
| 1994
| '']''
| Nora McGill
| TV movie
|-
| 1995
| '']''
| Julianne Kaiser
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=3| 1996
| '']''
| Kim Carpenter
| Episode: "'Til We Meet Again"
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| '']''
| Jewel Pemberton
| Episode: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Part 1"
|-
| '']''
| Amelia (voice)
| Episode: "My Name Is Revenge"
|-
| 1997
| '']''
| ]
| TV mini-series
|-
| rowspan=2| 1998
| '']''
| Margo Lange
| Episode: "One False Mole and You're Dead"
|-
| '']''
| Vice President Elizabeth Lane
| TV movie
|-
| rowspan=2| 2000
| '']''
| Nancy Donavan
| Direct to video film
|-
| '']''
| Secretary (voice)
| TV special
|-
| 2001
| ]
| Camilla Bianco / Anna
| Episode: "Mama Mia"
|-
| 2001
| '']''
| Ima Cummings
| Episode: "Light My Firebush"
|-
| 2001
| '']''
| Commander Crusher Von Krieg (voice)
| Episode: "Mercenary Gambit"
|-
| 2001
| ''UP, Michigan!''
| Deborah Michaels
|
|-
| 2001
| '']''
| Herself
| Classic TV Stars Edition #2
|-
| 2002
| ''Tornado Warning''
| Mayor McAnders
| TV movie
|-
| 2003
| ''Net Games''
| Dr. Klein
|
|-
| 2004
| '']''
| Wanda/Woman/Mandy #3 (voice)
| Episode: "Whatever Happened to Billy Whatsisname?/Just the Two of Pus"
|-
| 2004–2005
| '']''
| ]
| 54 episodes
|-
| 2005
| ''Diamond Zero''
| The Hemingway Diamond
|
|-
| 2008
| '']''
| Megan Phillips
|
|-
| 2009
| '']''
| Janine
| Episode: "Friends with Benefits"
|-
| 2008–2010
| '']''
| Annette Wainwright
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2011
| '']''
| Ruth (voice)
| Episode: "Placebo Effect"
|-
| 2011-2012
| ''Pretty the Series''
| Miss Senior Someone
|
|-
| 2012
|''Watercolor Postcards''
| Momma
|
|-
| 2013
| '']''
| ]
|
|-
| 2014
|''The 636''
| Rose
| Short
|-
| 2015
| '']''
| Bonnie Tournquist, Phyllis Daily & Roslyn Chambers
| Video game
|-
| 2017
| ''Psycho Wedding Crasher''
| Aunt Daisy
| TV movie
|-
| 2019
| '']''
| Mrs. Franklin
| Episode: "Hair Patrol"
|}


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American actress (born 1943)

Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark in 2007
BornJoan Martha Van Ark
(1943-06-16) June 16, 1943 (age 81)
New York City, U.S.
EducationYale University
OccupationActress
Years active1963–present
Spouse John Marshall ​(m. 1966)​
ChildrenVanessa Marshall

Joan Martha Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives.

In 1978, Van Ark landed her most famous role of Valene Ewing. The character first appeared on the CBS series Dallas, then was a leading character for 13 seasons on its spin-off Knots Landing (1979–92). For her performance on Knots Landing, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the series' final two episodes in 1993 as well as the 1997 miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 1985, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS. From 2004 to 2005, she starred in the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new Dallas series in 2013.

Early life and education

Joan Martha Van Ark was born on June 16, 1943, in New York City to Dorothy Jean Van Ark (née Hemenway) (1917-1983) and Carroll Clement Van Ark (1897-1972). Van Ark's father was an advertiser and public relations consultant, photographer and contributor to periodicals such as Collier's and The New Yorker. Carroll Van Ark's paternal grandfather Gradus was an immigrant from The Netherlands who settled in Holland, Michigan. Both of Van Ark's parents were also writers. After 1952, Van Ark grew up in Boulder, Colorado, with three siblings: Carol, Mark and Dexter.

"My dad was in PR in Denver. When I was 16, he arranged for her (Julie Harris) to speak with me. She ended up calling the dean of the Yale School of Drama, who agreed to meet with me. I became the second woman after Julie to be admitted when it was all men." - Joan Van Ark

At age 15 as a student reporter, Van Ark met and interviewed actress Julie Harris, who recommended that Van Ark apply to the Yale School of Drama, which Harris had attended in her early twenties. Van Ark followed in Harris' footsteps and went to Yale Drama on a scholarship. In 1964, Van Ark was one of the few acceptees to attend the Yale graduate program without first having earned an undergraduate degree. Van Ark was also reportedly the only female student on campus at the time. She attended for only one year. Years later, Harris appeared on Knots Landing as Lilimae Clements, the mother of Valene Ewing, Van Ark's character.

After Harris died in 2013, Van Ark announced at a Broadway memorial service the creation of the Julie Harris Scholarship, which provides annual support to an actor studying at the Yale Drama School. Alec Baldwin, who played Harris' son and Van Ark's brother on Knots Landing, made the first contribution. In 2021, Yale Drama became tuition-free and was rebranded the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.

Career

Van Ark and Howard Duff in Felony Squad (1968)

Van Ark began her professional career at the Guthrie Theater in Molière's The Miser and appeared opposite Hume Cronyn and Zoe Caldwell. That was followed by Death of a Salesman at the Guthrie with both Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. After a season at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., she originated the role of Corie in the national touring company of Barefoot in the Park, directed by Mike Nichols. In 1966, she recreated the role at the Piccadilly Circus in the critically acclaimed London Company when she replaced Marlo Thomas, who had pulled out due to a ligament injury; and later that same year, Van Ark made her Broadway debut as Corie at the Biltmore Theater and became one of the successors of Elizabeth Ashley, who three years earlier had appeared in the original Broadway production.

Van Ark and her new husband moved to Los Angeles, where she started garnering television credits. In 1971, she revisited Broadway, where she earned a Theatre World Award and received a Tony nomination (Best Featured Actress in a Play) for her performance as Agnès in Molière's The School for Wives, directed by Stephen Porter.

Van Ark starred opposite Ray Milland and Sam Elliott in the horror film Frogs, which was theatrically released on March 10, 1972.

After receiving a contract with Universal Studios, Van Ark co-starred with Bette Davis in The Judge and Jake Wyler, a 1972 two-hour telefilm and series pilot that failed to be picked up by NBC. Van Ark played the role of Erika in M*A*S*H in 1973 in the episode entitled "Radar's Report,” in which she rejects the prospect of marriage to Hawkeye (Alan Alda). Van Ark was also a regular cast member of the short-lived television sitcoms Temperatures Rising (1972–73) and We've Got Each Other (1977–78).

In 1974, Van Ark, tapped as a late replacement for Mary Ure, returned to Broadway as Silia Gala in a revival of Pirandello's The Rules of the Game, which was performed by the New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theater and also featured Glenn Close, who, in addition to playing a bit part as a neighbor, served as Van Ark's understudy in the lead role of Silia. Game reunited Van Ark with School for Wives director Stephen Porter as well as Wives co-star David Dukes. In 1975, a production of Game was also broadcast on Great Performances as one of its Theatre in America selections.

Van Ark co-starred opposite Richard Boone in the science fiction outing The Last Dinosaur, which was filmed at Tsuburaya Studios in Tokyo and on location in the Japanese Alps. The picture was intended to be released theatrically but failed to find a distributor and instead aired as a TV movie in February 1977.

In addition, Van Ark performed the voice of Spider-Woman in the short-lived 1979 animated series of the same name.

After working for several years in a variety of guest roles on television, in 1978, she gained her best-known role as Valene Ewing (originally as a one-time appearance) on Dallas. Van Ark kept a tight schedule and was flying a lot the week of her Dallas debut, as Dallas was being filmed in Texas and she was simultaneously shooting an episode of The Love Boat in L.A. and doing voiceover work for Estée Lauder in New York.

However, writers later worked the character into a couple of additional episodes; and in 1979, Van Ark then carried the Valene character over into the long-running spin-off, Knots Landing, in which she co-starred for thirteen of the show's fourteen seasons. She left in 1992, although she did return for its final two episodes in May 1993. Her character was married three times to husband Gary Ewing, played in the series by Ted Shackelford; and during the show's run, also had two other marriages: to Ben Gibson (Doug Sheehan) and Danny Waleska (Sam Behrens).

During her thirteen years on Knots Landing, Van Ark earned two Soap Opera Digest Awards for Best Actress (1986, 1989) and was nominated an additional six times. Over the course of the program, Van Ark probably received her greatest recognition as an actress during the sixth year, which featured an intricate storyline involving the theft of Valene's twin babies. Their disappearance (and alleged stillborn deaths) provoked Valene to embark on a surreal spiritual journey and pilgrimage in which she left the cul-de-sac in California and morphed into the persona of a character from a novel she had written.

"The face-washing scene was an example of when I felt couldn’t have gone better. It was everything we were all after. It became a monologue where I felt Valene should change and the audience should go with her on that journey. Of all the things I’ve ever done, I feel that that scene where Val washed her face was the deepest one. It was so rich. There was a combination of the cameraman, the writers, the producers, the director — they all allowed me that monologue in the mirror. We saw Valene become Verna right in front of our eyes." - Joan Van Ark

This dark, gripping tale earned Knots Landing its only placement ever on Nielsen's annual Top 10 programs list. In the 1984–1985 season finale, "The Long and Winding Road," Val finds out that her babies are still alive, and this episode's original broadcast on May 23, 1985, also marked the only time Knots Landing ever reached the #1 spot in the weekly Nielsen ratings. In its edition dated June 29, 1985, TV Guide assessed of her performance: "Knots Landing has the grimmest plots but the strongest cast, headed by the incomparable Joan Van Ark as Valene." Later on, she directed two of the series' episodes, one in the last season after she was no longer a regular performer on the serial.

In 1985, she also co-hosted with Bob Barker CBS' Tournament of Roses Parade, which received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program.

Mirroring their characters' onscreen friendship, Van Ark and KL co-star Michele Lee became good friends while working together on the series. In May 1997, Van Ark reprised her role of Valene Ewing in the CBS mini-series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac; while in December 2005, she appeared in the non-fiction reunion Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again, in which she reminisced with the other cast members about the long-running CBS television show.

Shortly before leaving Knots Landing, she starred opposite Christopher Meloni in an ill-fated pilot called Spin Doctors, a sitcom for NBC that was not picked up.

An ABC Afterschool Special called Boys Will Be Boys: The Ali Cooper Story (1994), which she appeared in and directed, was nominated for a Humanitas. In 1997, Van Ark also directed a documentary short on homelessness and domestic violence for the Directors Guild of America, and the piece was nominated for an Emmy Award.

She originated the role of Gloria Fisher Abbott on CBS television's The Young and the Restless from 2004 to 2005, then decided to leave the role and was replaced by Judith Chapman.

Van Ark also appeared Off-Broadway opposite John Rubinstein in Love Letters, as well as in Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning Three Tall Women at the Promenade Theatre and The Exonerated at the Bleecker Street Theatre. In 2000, she performed in Camino Real in Washington, D.C.

Her Los Angeles theater credits include: Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxanne, as well as Ring Around the Moon, Chemin de Fer, Heartbreak House and As You Like It, for which she won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. Opposite David Birney, she appeared as Lady Macbeth in the Grove Shakespeare Festival's production of Macbeth, produced by Charles Johanson.

Van Ark has also starred in three Williamstown Theatre Festival productions: The Night of the Iguana (1987), the 40th anniversary presentation of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music (1994) and The Legend of Oedipus (1988), which is a five-hour, two-part adaptation by Kenneth Cavander of the classic Greek tragedies and was directed by WTF co-founder Nikos Psacharopoulos, who was also Van Ark's acting professor when she was attending the Yale School of Drama.

Later stage work includes: her origination of the role of Mrs. Fenway in Escape, one of the newly discovered Tennessee Williams' shorts featured as part of the Five by Tenn collection at the Kennedy Center in 2004; the 2005 La Jolla Playhouse production of Private Fittings, directed by Des McAnuff, and a presentation of A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur in 2006 at the Hartford Stage.

Her TV movies include: With Harmful Intent opposite former Yale classmate Daniel J. Travanti and Rick Springfield as her husband Paul; My First Love, in which she plays the younger woman in a romantic triangle with Bea Arthur and Richard Kiley; Always Remember I Love You opposite Patty Duke; Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception; and based on the novel by Stuart M. Kaminsky, When the Dark Man Calls, in which she portrays a radio psychologist opposite Chris Sarandon as her brother Lloyd and James Read as Detective Lieberman.

Van Ark has also performed in a variety of guest roles, including on episodes of Bonanza, Night Gallery, M*A*S*H, The Six Million Dollar Man, Petrocelli, Quincy, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, and Rhoda (in which she played the ex-wife of Rhoda's husband). She appeared in three separate episodes of Medical Center, Cannon and The Rockford Files, and four separate episodes of The Love Boat. In 1978, she also appeared in an episode of Wonder Woman with Ted Shackelford, who would later become her onscreen husband Gary Ewing on both Dallas and Knots Landing. Post-KL guest spots include: The Nanny and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

In April 2001, Van Ark was featured in an episode of the Howard Stern-produced show Son of the Beach as Ima Cummings, the mother of show regular BJ Cummings (played by Jaime Bergman). In 2008, she was reunited with her Knots Landing co-star Donna Mills in an episode of the FX drama series Nip/Tuck. The same year, she also played a network executive in the film Channels.

In April 2009, Van Ark appeared at the TV Land awards, where Knots Landing was being honored on its 30-year anniversary. Other Knots Landing actors who were present included Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Kevin Dobson, Ted Shackelford, Lisa Hartman Black, Constance McCashin, Don Murray and Michelle Phillips, along with Dallas/Knots Landing creator David Jacobs.

In 2011, she performed voice work in an episode of the animated comedy series Archer. In 2013, she guest-starred in an episode of the new Dallas series, in which she reprised the role of Valene Ewing. The same year, she also appeared as a guest judge on the Logo series RuPaul's Drag Race.

Personal life

On February 1, 1966, Van Ark married news reporter John Marshall, who later became a correspondent for two decades at KNBC-TV and won both an Emmy and a Golden Mike Award. Van Ark and Marshall were high school sweethearts in Boulder, Colorado, and wed in Trier, Germany, where Marshall was stationed at the time in the Armed Forces Television Service. For their honeymoon, they took a European tour of places made famous by her namesake, Joan of Arc.

The couple's only child is voice actress, model, and singer Vanessa Marshall. In 1997, mother and daughter appeared together in the play Star Dust at the Tiffany Theater.

Van Ark is a long-distance runner who has participated in 14 marathons and made the cover of Runner's World.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1967 Run for Your Life Donna Hayward 2 episodes
1968 The Felony Squad Lynne Thackeray Episode: "A Fashion for Dying"
Peyton Place Paula 2 episodes
The Mod Squad April Showers Episode: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Starlet"
1969 The Guns of Will Sonnett Laurie Episode: "The Man Who Killed Jim Sonnett"
Bonanza Annie Laurie Adams Episode: "Sweet Annie Laurie"
Gunsmoke Sarah Jean Stryker Episode: "Stryker"
1970 Hawaii Five-O Freda Cowan Episode: "The Double Wall"
Days of Our Lives Janene Whitney #3 17 episodes
The F.B.I. Hanson Episode: "The Condemned"
The Silent Force Louise Hanson Episode: "A Deadly Game of Love"
Dan August Harrison's Secretary Episode: "The Union Forever"
1971 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors Evelyn Baker Episode: "Close Up"
The F.B.I. Carla Episode: The Deadly Gift
1970–1972 Love, American Style Alice 2 episodes
1972 Frogs Karen Crockett
The Judge and Jake Wyler Alicia Dodd TV movie and series pilot
Night Gallery Sondra Blanco Episode: "The Ring with the Red Velvet Ropes"
1972–1973 Temperatures Rising Annie Carlisle 26 episodes
1973 Mannix Jennifer Crane Episode: "The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress"
1974 Big Rose: Double Trouble Nina TV movie
Barnaby Jones Sheila Barner Episode: "The Challenge"
The Rockford Files Barbara Kelbaker

Susan Alexander

Episode: "Find Me If You Can."

Episode: s2:e4 "Resurrection in Black and White."

Cannon Anna Meister Episode: "The Man Who Couldn't Forget"
1975 Great Performances Silia Gala
Rhoda Marian Gerard Episode: "Rhoda Meets the Ex-Wife"
The Last of the Mohicans Cora Munro (voice)
1977 The Last Dinosaur Francesca 'Frankie' Banks TV movie
Kojak Detective Jo Lang
1977 McMillan (formerly McMillan and Wife) Georgie Episode: "Have You Heard About Vanessa?"
1977–1978 We've Got Each Other Dee Dee Baldwin 13 episodes
1978 Quincy M.E. Bert Phillips Episode: "Gone But Not Forgotten"
Quark Princess Libido 2 episodes
Wonder Woman Cassandra Episode: "Time Bomb"
1973 M*A*S*H Lt. Erika Johnson Episode: Radar's Report
1978-1980 Manta and Moray Moray (voice)
1979 Spider-Woman Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman (voice)
1979–1984 The Love Boat Deborah Marshall/Kris Hayley/Mary Sue Huggins 4 episodes
1981 Red Flag: The Ultimate Game Marie TV movie
1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip Brenda Allen TV movie
My First Love Claire Thomas TV movie
1990 Always Remember I Love You Martha "Marty" Mendham TV movie
Menu for Murder Julia Alberts TV movie
1978–1981, 1991 Dallas Valene Ewing 8 episodes
1979–1993 Knots Landing Valene Ewing 327 episodes
Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Prime Time (1986, 1989)
TV Land Award – Anniversary Award (2009)
Nominated – Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Prime Time (1988, 1991)
1993 In the Shadows, Someone's Watching (AKA With Harmful Intent) Cinnie Merritt TV movie
1994 Moment of Truth: A Mother's Deception Nora McGill TV movie
1995 When the Dark Man Calls Julianne Kaiser TV movie
1996 Touched by an Angel Kim Carpenter Episode: "'Til We Meet Again"
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Jewel Pemberton Episode: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Part 1"
Santo Bugito Amelia (voice) Episode: "My Name Is Revenge"
1997 Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac Valene Ewing TV mini-series
1998 The Nanny Margo Lange Episode: "One False Mole and You're Dead"
Loyal Opposition: Terror in the White House Vice President Elizabeth Lane TV movie
2000 Held for Ransom Nancy Donavan Direct to video film
It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown Secretary (voice) TV special
2001 Twice in a Lifetime Camilla Bianco / Anna Episode: "Mama Mia"
2001 Son of the Beach Ima Cummings Episode: "Light My Firebush"
2001 Heavy Gear: The Animated Series Commander Crusher Von Krieg (voice) Episode: "Mercenary Gambit"
2001 UP, Michigan! Deborah Michaels
2001 The Weakest Link Herself Classic TV Stars Edition #2
2002 Tornado Warning Mayor McAnders TV movie
2003 Net Games Dr. Klein
2004 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Wanda/Woman/Mandy #3 (voice) Episode: "Whatever Happened to Billy Whatsisname?/Just the Two of Pus"
2004–2005 The Young and the Restless Gloria Abbott 54 episodes
2005 Diamond Zero The Hemingway Diamond
2008 Channels Megan Phillips
2009 My Name Is Earl Janine Episode: "Friends with Benefits"
2008–2010 Nip/Tuck Annette Wainwright 2 episodes
2011 Archer Ruth (voice) Episode: "Placebo Effect"
2011-2012 Pretty the Series Miss Senior Someone
2012 Watercolor Postcards Momma
2013 Dallas Valene Ewing
2014 The 636 Rose Short
2015 Fallout 4 Bonnie Tournquist, Phyllis Daily & Roslyn Chambers Video game
2017 Psycho Wedding Crasher Aunt Daisy TV movie
2019 Doom Patrol Mrs. Franklin Episode: "Hair Patrol"

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