Joanna Cassidy: biography and selected filmography

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Joanna Cassidy is an American film and television actress who has played in such projects as "Stuntmen", "Blade Runner", "Home is Where the Heart Is", "Call Me Fitz", etc. Winner of several honorary awards, including the Golden Globe, starred in more than 160 films and TV shows. In the article, we will take a closer look at the biography of the actress and note the main roles that made her popular.

Joanna Cassidy: biography

Joanna was born in 1945 in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey. She studied at the local school Haddonfield Memorial High School. Since she grew up in a creative family, she was the daughter and granddaughter of artists, in her youth Joanna Cassidy also took up painting - she studied art at Syracuse University. There she met future physician Kennard Kobrin, whom she married in 1964. And after studying, the couple moved to San Francisco, where Joanna worked as a model, and Kennard underwent a psychiatric practice.

Running Under Fire

The career of the actress began in 1968. Filming in films and TV shows, she combined with the modeling business. During this time, she starred in such projects as Bullitt (1968), Fools (1970), Mission: Impossible (1966-1973), Team (1973), Laughing Cop (1973 th) and "Sure Chance" (1974). And only after a divorce from her husband, with whom they lived for about ten years, Joanna moved to Los Angeles, where she devoted herself entirely to acting.

In 1976, together with Arnold Schwarzenegger, she starred in Bob Rafelson's comedy-drama Stay Hungry. A year later, she got into the main cast of detective Mark L. Lester's "Stuntmen". In 1982, Ridley Scott's fantasy thriller Blade Runner was filmed - a film with Joanna Cassidy, where she played Zora, a physically and intellectually developed replicant. Then she played the role of Claire, one of the main characters in Roger Spottiswoode's military drama Under Fire (1983), and won an award at the Sant Jordi Awards. And in 1983, she received a Golden Globe for her role as Jo-Jo White, a producer of a ratings show in Tom Patchett's sitcom Buffalo Bill (1983-1984).

Curse of Roger Rabbit

KGB agent Irina Vasilievna, the actress played in John Mackenzie's spy thriller The Fourth Protocol (1987). The image of Dolores, the former girlfriend of private detective Edward Valiant, Joanna Cassidy tried on in the animated film RobertZemeckis "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988). She played the role of US Army Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Gallagher in the political thriller Deliver to Destination by Andrew Davis (1989). Together with Uma Thurman, she joined the main cast of John Boorman's romantic comedy Home is Where the Heart Is (1990). And as Rose Lindsey, head of General Apparel West, she appeared in Stephen Herek's family comedy Don't Tell Mom the Nanny is Dead (1991).

Sheriff Ruth Merrill Joanna Cassidy played in John Power's two-part television project The Tommyknockers (1993), based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. In the role of Dr. Arlene Whitlock, she appeared in John Carpenter's fantasy action movie Ghosts of Mars (2001). For the 21st episode, she played the role of Margaret Chinwit, a psychologist suffering from outbursts of uncontrollable anger, in Alan Ball's serial drama The Client is Always Dead (2001-2005). And the role of Mrs. Davis, the sick mother of the sisters Aubrey and Karen Davis, was performed in the horror film by Takashi Shimizu "The Curse 2" (2006).

Fitz investigation

In 2007, Joanna Cassidy played one of the main characters in S. Jay Cox's romantic comedy Kiss the Bride. Three years later, she received a place in the main cast of Derek Magyar's drama Flight Lessons (2010). Then she played the role of Mrs. McCarthy in Jerome Elston Scott's comedy-drama Anderson's Cross (2010). And from 2011 to 2013. took part in the filming of the ABC medical drama "The Investigation of the Body"(2011-2013), where she got the role of Joan Hunt, a former judge and domineering mother of medical examiner Megan Hunt.

The role of Elaine, the mother of the protagonist Richard Fitzpatrick, the actress played for 18 episodes of the Canadian television series HBO Canada "Call Me Fitz" (2010-2013). As one of the main characters, Eleanor Mahler starred in Dennis Hawk's drama Too Late (2015). And the image of Candice von Weber, an ardent supporter of matriarchy in the family and mother-in-law of the main character, was tried on in the comedy series Wrong Mom by Jill Kargman (2015-2017).

What to expect?

Today, there is information that preparations are underway for filming two more projects with the participation of Joanna Cassidy. We are talking about the drama In Search of the Miraculous by Brian Skeet and the melodrama of the same director White Lilies. It is already known that the actress will play the main role in both films.