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Joan Van Ark

(1943) Television Actor United States

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Joan Van Ark is a television actor from the United States.

Quick Facts About Joan Van Ark

Born: June 16, 1943
Nationality: United States
Profession: Television Actor
Known for: Dallas, Knots Landing

About Joan Van Ark

Joan Martha Van Ark is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Theatre World Award Soap Opera Digest Awards TV Land Award

Quotes by Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Become

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Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.

About

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I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

Became

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Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

Adventure

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I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

Cheated

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David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

About

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You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Life

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Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the…

Arcs

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When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a…

Air

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When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

Acting

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When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Actresses

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Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

Clear

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They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women…

Cartoon

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I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials…

Guests

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I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

Play

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A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

Couple

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Running is my church.

Church

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My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

Brother

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I still want to do a comedy series.

Comedy

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So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

Names

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It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Back

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I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.

Church

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