Joan Copeland

Infobox actor


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name=Joan Copeland
birthname=Joan Miller
birthdate=birth date and age|1922|6|1 imdb name|0178616]
birthplace=New York City
yearsactive=1950–present

Joan Copeland (born June 1 1922 in New York City) is an American actress.

Biography

Copeland was born Joan Miller to a middle-class Jewish family. Her father was a woman's clothes manufacturer and her mother was a schoolteacher and a housewife. She is the younger sister of the late playwright Arthur Miller, and was briefly sister-in-law to Marilyn Monroe.

On television soap operas, she has had roles on "Search for Tomorrow" (she played Joanne's daughter, Patti's malevolent former mother in-law, Andrea Whiting), "Love of Life" (where she played twin sisters, Maggie and Kay Logan, to play Kay, Joan wore a blond wig), "The Edge of Night", "How to Survive a Marriage" and "As the World Turns". She portrayed Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on "One Life to Live" from 1978-1979, Schemering, Christopher. "The Soap Opera Encyclopedia", September 1985, pg. 158-166, ISBN 0-345-32459-5 (1st edition)] and later returned to the series to play Selma Hanen in 1995. imdb name|0178616]

She has had a long and extensive career on stage and on film. Her Broadway credits include "45 Seconds from Broadway", "Checking Out", "Two By Two", "Coco", "The Price", "Something More!", "Tovarich", "Handful of Fire", "Not for Children", "Detective Story", and "Sundown Beach" among others. Copeland was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the 1977 production of "Pal Joey" and won a Drama Desk Award in 1981 for "American Clock". [ [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=36280 Internet Broadway Database: Joan Copeland Credits on Broadway ] ]

succession box
title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play
years=1980-1981
for "American Clock"
before=Pat Carroll
for "Gertrude Stein"
after=Zoe Caldwell
for " Medea"

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