Joan Van Ark

Actor, Award Winner

1943 –

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Who is Joan Van Ark?

Joan Van Ark is an American actress, most notable for her role as Valene Ewing in thirteen seasons of the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she has also received a Theatre World Award and been nominated for a Tony Award for her stage work.

Van Ark began her professional stage career in 1963 at the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, appearing in The Miser and Death of a Salesman. She made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1971 for The School for Wives.

She landed her most famous role of Valene Ewing in 1978, first on the CBS series Dallas, then for thirteen seasons on its spin-off Knots Landing. For this role, she twice won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress, in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the final episode of the series in 1993. In 1985, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS. From 2004-2005, she starred in the soap opera The Young And the Restless. She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new Dallas series in 2013.

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Born
Jun 16, 1943
New York City
Also known as
  • Joan Van Arc
  • Joan van Ark
  • Joan of Ark
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • Dutch people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Yale School of Drama
Lived in
  • New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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