Joan is currently dealing with some health issues and hopes to return to the podcast soon.
All 14 seasons of "Knots Landing" can be seen streaming on Amazon Prime. Click here.
Joan joined Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and other major cast members of "Dallas" at the "Southfork Ranch Experience" October 25, 26 and 27, 2024.
Joan joaned Donna Mills and Michele Lee of "Knots Landing" in bringing another Southfork Experience at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson, Texas last year. This event will featured meet-and-greets with actors from "Dallas," autograph signings, photo opportunities, and special cast panels. More here.
Joan recently played the demanding
role of Tamora, Queen of the Goths, in a reading of "Titus
Andronicus" at the Los Angeles Shakespeare Center. More here.
Once again, Joan appeared in "A
Shakespeare Jubilee" at the Wallis Annenberg Theater in Beverly
Hills as part of Britweek. She peformed
Cleopatra's death scene from "Antony and Cleopatra." More
here on this prestigious production.
Joan plays quite an unusual role for
her in "Psycho Wedding Crasher," a movie airing on the Lifetime
Channel. Joan talks about it on local television in Los
Angeles. Click here.
Joan made an appearance in the short film, "The 636." The film was screened to critical acclaim in 2014 at the NYLA International Film Festival, the Richmond International Film Festival, and the Women's International Film Festival in Miami. More here.
Joan loves Shakespeare. So it was an honor to join Harry Hamlin, Jane Seymour, Joely Fisher and Malcolm McDowell in celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, part of Los Angeles' weeklong Britweek in 2016. For more, click here.
In December of 2013, Joan participated in a memorial for Julie Harris, who played her mother, "Lilimae," on "Knots Landing" for eight years. Click these links for more on the memorial: Playbill, Showbiz411, Broadway World, Cape Cod Times. For more on the Julie Harris Scholarship at Yale, click here.
The new "Dallas" returned
to TNT in 2013 for its second season, and two more members of
the Ewing clan are part of the explosive doings at
Southfork. Gary and Valene Ewing of "Knots Landing,"
played by Ted Shackelford and Joan, were featured. Click to
hear Joan discuss the experience.
Joan appeared on "The Talk" on
CBS with other "Knots Landing" cast members, Michele Lee and
Donna Mills. Click
here to see a segment of the program.
Joan co-starred in the independent feature film, "Watercolor Postcards" in 2013. Click to see trailer.
In 2012, Joan taped a segment
for "Celebrity Ghost Stories." Her own ghost story
was seen on the Biography Channel in June. Click here
to see clip.
Joan guest starred on the
cutting-edge series, "Archer," on FX in 2011. Click here
to hear her in the role of "Ruth." She is now featured
on on a popular webisode series, "Pretty."
Joan was awarded an Indie Soap Award, "Best Guest Appearance,
Comedy, for this role.
Joan appeared in another episode of "Nip/Tuck" on FX, co-starring with Donna Mills, again playing "Beverly Hills cougars." More here.
Joan joined Michele Lee and Kevin Dobson 2011 on "The Early Show" on CBS. Click here to see this "Knots Landing" reunion.
In April of 2009, she appeared with other cast members as "Knots Landing" was honored on the "TV Land Awards." More information here.
February of 2009, Joan guest starred on NBC's "My Name is Earl." Here's an interview she did at the time.
Joan and other Knots Landing cast members were reunited on NBC's Today Show. Click here to see them.
Joan made her first special appearance on "Nip/Tuck" on FX last season. Click here for more.
She starred with Gary Collins in "You'll Never Be Young Again" in Los Angeles in 2007. In 2006, Joan recalled her early days with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Earlier that year, Joan returned to the stage in Tennessee Williams' "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" at the Harftford Stage. Click here for more on Joan in Hartford. A rave review. And another. Still more here. And even more.
In 2005, Joan appeared in a "Knots Landing" Reunion with the other cast members of the long running CBS Television hit.
Joan performed in the world premier
of Mark O'Donnell's new adaptation of "Private
Fittings" by Georges Feydeau at the La Jolla Playhouse
near San Diego. The production was directed by Des
McAnuff, winner of two Tony Awards. Click these underlined
links to see reviews in Daily
Variety, the Los Angeles
Times, the San Diego
Union-Tribune and San Diego
City Beat. She is also spotlighted by TheaterMania.com.
Joan appeared in 2004 at the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C., where she originated the role
of Mrs. Fenway in "Escape," part of a world premier of "Five by
Tenn," a collection of newly-found Tennessee Williams one-act
plays. Click the link to see the Associated
Press and TheaterMania.com
reviews. The production was part of 
the Kennedy Center's festival of
Tennessee Williams' works with Kathleen Chalfant, Patricia
Clarkson and Sally Field.
For most of 2004, Joan also appeared on CBS Television's "The Young and the Restless." Prior to that, she appeared in the off-Broadway production of "The Exonerated" at the Bleeker Street Theater in New York. She was also a guest actor in the Los Angeles production of "Blackout" at the McCadden Theater in Hollywood.
CBS Soaps in
Depth recently spotlighted Joan's role as Gloria on "The
Young and the Restless."
For information on Joan's career,
please click Biography.
