By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. Known for her work on stage and screen, she has received a Tony Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards.
She began her career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 1977, won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for And a Nightingale Sang, and won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This. In the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Allen received international recognition for a string of critically acclaimed performances. She is also a three-time Academy Award nominee, receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender (2000).
Allen’s other film roles include Manhunter (1986), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), The Ice Storm (1997), Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Upside of Anger (2005), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Death Race (2008), and The Bourne Legacy (2012). She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2015 film Room. She has also starred in the Broadway plays The Heidi Chronicles (1988), Impressionism (2009), and The Waverly Gallery (2018).
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Benjamin Harrison (23rd U.S. president) –
- Edgar Guest (poet) –
- Don King (boxing promoter) –
- Isaac Hayes (singer) –
- Connie Chung (journalist) –
- Robert Plant (singer) –
- Al Roker (co-anchor and TV weatherman) –
- Joan Allen (actress) –
- Billy Gardell (actor) –
- Amy Adams (actress) –
Died
- Pope Pius X (religious leader) –
- Sir Fred Hoyle (astronomer) –
- Somporn Saekow (founder of first Thailand monkey-training school) –
- Joe Rosenthal (photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for the image of World War II servicemen raising an American flag over Iwo Jima. The photo became the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial) –
- Leona Helmsley (hotel magnate) –
- Phyllis Diller (comedienne & actress) –
- Elmore Leonard (author) –
- Jerry Lewis (comedian) –
Events
- The 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow–
- Strowger firm applied for a patent for the first telephone rotary dial–
- The Plant Quarantine Act came into effect, placing restrictions on the entry of plants into the U.S.–
- German forces occupied Brussels–
- Project Manhigh II completed–
- 563-lb. 8-oz. giant sea bass caught near Anacapa Island, California–
- The unmanned U.S. planetary probe Viking 1 was launched on a journey to Mars. After nearly a year in space, it became the first vehicle to land on that planet–
- Jellyfish invaded the beaches of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island–
- Parade of 83 tow trucks set a world record in Wenatchee, Washington–
- Talk show host Regis Philbin achieved the Guinness World Record for most hours on camera–
Weather
- Salt crystals fell from the sky over Switzerland–
- The town of Indianola, Texas, was completely destroyed by a hurricane and fire–
- Deadly tornado hit Sudbury, Ontario–
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