Joan as First Name

Joan Tabor            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Joan Tabor: was an US film and TV actress. She was born on September 16, 1932, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.

Dame Joan Alston Sutherland,            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland,: is an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution in the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire in the late 1950s and 1960s. One of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century, she was dubbed La Stupenda by La Fenice audience in 1960 after an Alcina performance. She possessed a voice of great beauty and considerable power, combining extraordinary agility, flawless intonation, a phenomenal trill and amazing upper register. Luciano Pavarotti once described Dame Joan as the Voice of the Century while Montserrat Caballé once described her voice as heaven.

Joan Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Joan Allen: Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (née Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. She transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976, where she graduated. Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985).

Joan Greenwood            Origin/Culture/Country: English
Joan Greenwood: was an English actress. Born in Chelsea, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her husky voice was her trademark, and in 1995 she was ranked number 63 on Empire magazine's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.Greenwood worked mainly on the stage, where she had a long career, appearing with Donald Wolfit's theatre company in the years following World War II. She did make several memorable screen appearances, most notably as Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) and as Sibella in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). She also appeared in two Ealing comedies, Whisky Galore! and The Man in the White Suit. She had leading roles in Stage Struck (1958), the Jules Verne-based film Mysterious Island (1961), and Tom Jones (1963). Her last film was Little Dorrit, made the year of her death.

Joan Delano Aiken            Origin/Culture/Country: English
Joan Delano Aiken: was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry), and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge.Many of her most popular books, including the Wolves Chronicles, were set in an elaborate alternate history of Britain in which James II is never deposed in the Glorious Revolution, but supporters of the House of Hanover continually agitate against the monarchy. These books also toy with the geography of London, adding a Canal District among other features.

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