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Profile of Joanna Cassidy
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Joanna Cassidy |
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2nd August 1945 |
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA |
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Joanna Cassidy (b. Joanna Virginia Caskey on August 2, 1945 in Haddonfield, New Jersey) is an American actress who has been active in film and television for 35 years.
Cassidy got her start guest starring on television series such as Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Starsky & Hutch and Fantasy Island, as well as having starring roles on programs such as 240-Robert and Dallas.
In 1982, she played the replicant Zhora - still one of her most fondly remembered roles - in Blade Runner. She also starred in such films as Hollywood Wives (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Barbarians at the Gate (1993), the 1993 adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).
On television, she provided the voice of Maggie Sawyer in the 1990s animated series of Superman, has had recurring guest roles on shows such as Diagnosis Murder and The District; and has guest starred on Everwood and Star Trek: Enterprise as T'Les,the mother of T'Pol.
Cassidy is also known for her recurring role as Margaret Chenowith on Six Feet Under which she has played for all five seasons, since the show began in 2001. Interestingly, her (now deceased) husband on the show was played by Robert Foxworth, whom she also acted with in episodes of both Falcon Crest and Star Trek Enterprise.
Cassidy has 2 children from her marriage in the 1960s.
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