Joan Copeland
Biography
Joan Copeland was an American actress who began in New York theater in the 1940s and worked for decades on stage, television and film. Born in Manhattan in 1922, her first professional role was Juliet in a 1945 production of Romeo and Juliet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her Broadway credits included Sundown Beach, The Diary of Anne Frank and Pal Joey, and she won a 1981 Drama Desk Award for her work in The American Clock. Off Broadway she won a 1991 Obie Award for The American Plan. On television she played Andrea Whiting on Search for Tomorrow, Gwendolyn Lord Abbott in One Life to Live and Judge Rebecca Stein on Law & Order. Her films included Middle of the Night (1959), It's My Turn (1980), Her Alibi (1989), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), The Peacemaker (1997) and The Audrey Hepburn Story (2000), and she voiced Tanana in Brother Bear (2003). She died in 2022.
99years old at death
- Born Manhattan
- Died Manhattan
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
- Joan Maxine Miller (birth name)Also credited as Joan Maxine Copeland, Joan Maxime Kupchik and Joan Maxine Kupchik
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 44 years1959 to 2003
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A first
Copeland started acting in New York City theaters in the mid-1940s. Soon after, she was among the first people accepted into the Actors Studio, which had just been formed.
First role
In 1945, Copeland launched her theater career by playing Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, her professional debut, staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
A role that slipped away
Copeland was cast as Zelda in the 2001 Broadway production of Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway but left during rehearsals and was replaced by Rebecca Schull, never performing in it.
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Aaron BlaiseDirector, 1 film, 2003
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Robert WalkerDirector, 1 film, 2003
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Mimi LederDirector, 1 film, 1997
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