Top Celebrity Names Starting With Joan

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   Joan Collins

   Age 79 Female
   

   Actress, Author, and Columnist

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   Joan Henrietta Collins, OBE, is an English actress, author, and columnist. Born in Paddington and raised in Maida Vale, Collins grew up during the Second World War. After making her stage debut in A Doll's House at the age of 9, she was trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. After eighteen months at the drama school, she was signed to an exclusive contract by the Rank Organisation and appeared in various British films.… read more

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   Joan Rivers

   Age 79 Female
   

   Comedian, Actress, Voice

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   Joan Alexandra Molinsky, publicly known as Joan Rivers, is an American comedian, television personality and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous cosmetic surgeries. Rivers's comic style relies heavily on poking fun at herself and other celebrities.… read more

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   Joan Allen

   Age 55 Female
   

   Actress

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   | birth_date = August 20, 1956 (age 55) | birth_place = Rochelle, Illinois, U.S. | years_active = 1983–present | occupation = Actress | spouse = Peter Friedman (m. 1990–2002) «start: (1990)–end+1: (2003)»"Marriage: Peter Friedman to En:Joan Allen" Location: }} Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress.… read more

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   Joan Jett

   Age 53 Female
   

   Singer-songwriter, Rock Musician

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   Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and occasional actress. , best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular recordings including "Crimson and Clover", "I Hate Myself for Loving You", "Do You Want to Touch Me", "Light of Day", "Love Is All Around", "Bad Reputation".… read more

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   Joan Baez

   Age 71 Female
   

   Folk Singer

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   Joan Chandos Baez /ˈbaɪ. ɛz/ is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice. Baez has a distinctive vocal style, with a strong vibrato. Her recordings include many topical songs and material dealing with social issues.… read more

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   Joan Van Ark

   Age 68 Female
   

   Actress

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   Joan Van Ark is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing, which she originated on the CBS series Dallas and continued for thirteen seasons on its spin-off, Knots Landing. Van Ark has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work.… read more

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   Joan Crawford

   1905 - 1977 Female
   

   Actress

   
   

   Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s.… read more

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   Joan Sutherland

   1926 - 2010 Female
   

   Australian Soprano

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   Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. One of the most remarkable female opera singers of the 20th century, she was dubbed La Stupenda by a La Fenice audience in 1960 after a performance of the title role in Handel's Alcina.… read more

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   Joan Cusack

   Age 49 Female
   

   Actress

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   Joan Mary Cusack is an American film, stage and television actress. Cusack has appeared in films, television and stage productions, receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in the movies Working Girl and In & Out, as well as one Golden Globe and one Emmy Award nomination. One of her most notable television roles is as a cast member of the sketch comedy TV show Saturday Night Live in 1985–86.… read more

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    Joan Armatrading

    Age 61 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist

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    Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. In a recording career spanning 40 years she has released a total of 17 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations.… read more

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    Joan Chen

    Age 51 Female
    

    Actress, Film Director, Screenwriter, Producer

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    Joan of Arc

    1412 - 1431 Female
    

    National Heroine of France

    
    

    Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans", is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII.… read more

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    Joan Osborne

    Age 49 Female
    

    Singer, Musician, Songwriter

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    Joan Elizabeth Osborne is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her song "One of Us". She has toured with Motown sidemen the Funk Brothers and was featured in the documentary film about them, Standing in the Shadows of Motown.… read more

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    Joan Sims

    1930 - 2001 Female
    

    Actress, Singer, Musician

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    Joan Sims was an English actress best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, and latterly for playing Madge Hardcastle in As Time Goes By.

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    Joan Blondell

    1906 - 1979 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Rose Joan Blondell was an American actress who performed in movies and on television for five decades as Joan Blondell. After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Code staple of Warner Brothers and appeared in more than 100 movies and television productions.… read more

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    Joan Fontaine

    Age 94 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, is a British American actress. She and her elder sister Olivia de Havilland are two of the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s, at ages 94 and 95 respectively. Fontaine is the only actor to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion.… read more

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    Joan Carden

    Age 74 Female
    

    Soprano, Musician, Singer

    
    

    Joan Carden AO OBE is an Australian operatic soprano. She has been described as "a worthy successor to Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland" and was sometimes known as "the other Joan" (a reference to Sutherland and Dame Joan Hammond) or "The People's Diva". She was a Principal Soprano with Opera Australia for 32 years, and was particularly associated with the title roles of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly.… read more

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    Joan Laporta

    Age 49 Male
    

    Politician, Lawyer, President

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    Joan Laporta i Estruch is a Catalan politician and former president of Futbol Club Barcelona between 2003 and 2010. Laporta is a lawyer (he graduated from the University of Barcelona) with his own firm, Laporta & Arbós, which has important firms as clients. Laporta was married to Constanza Echevarría and has three sons, Pol, Guillem and Jan. He is currently serving as MP in the Parliament of Catalonia.… read more

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    Joan Pujol Garcia

    1912 - 1988 Male
    

    Double Agent For the British In World War Ii

    
    

    Joan Pujol Garcia, also known as Juan Pujol García, MBE, was a double agent during the Second World War who was known by the British codename Garbo and the German codename Arabel. Pujol had the distinction of being one of the few people during World War II to receive decorations from both sides, gaining both an Iron Cross from the Germans and an MBE from the British.… read more

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    Joan Tower

    Age 73 Female
    

    Composer of Contemporary Classical Music

    
    

    Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world.… read more

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    Joan Miró

    1893 - 1983 Male
    

    Painter, Sculptor, Potter

    
    

    Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his birth city in 1975. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride.… read more

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    Joan Tompkins

    1915 - 2005 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Joan Tompkins, legally known as Joan Swenson was an American actress of television, film, radio, and stage, who co-founded with her husband, Karl Swenson, an acting company in Beverly Hills, California. In the 1962-1963 television season, Tompkins played legal secretary Trudy Wagner in twenty-eight episodes of Edmond O'Brien's NBC legal drama Sam Benedict, co-starring Richard Rust.… read more

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    Joan Clos i Matheu

    Age 62 Male
    

    Mayor, Politician, Minister

    
    

    Joan Clos i Matheu is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was then re-elected in the municipal elections of 25 May 2003. In September 2006, he left Barcelona Town Hall, after nine years of office, as he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade by Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.… read more

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    Joan Bennett

    1910 - 1990 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film and television actress. Besides acting on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 motion pictures from the era of silent movies well into the sound era. She is possibly best-remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's movies such as The Woman in the Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1945).… read more

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    Joan Plowright

    Age 82 Female
    

    Actress

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    Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, DBE, better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards. Joan Plowright is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.… read more