Joanna Gleason

Joanna Gleason studied at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Occidental College and University of California, Los Angeles. The recorded working language is English. Distinctions recorded are Theatre World Award and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

• Name — Joanna Gleason • Birth Name — Joanne Hall • Born — 2 June 1950 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Education — * University of California, Los Angeles • Occidental College • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1972–present • Father — Monty Hall • Mother — Marilyn Hall

Gleason is the daughter of Monty and Marilyn Hall. By the time of her birth, her father was working for Toronto radio stations[4] and had changed his name from "Halparin" to "Hall". He later started a television career and went on to fame as host of Let's Make a Deal.[6] Hall graduated from Beverly Hills High School (BHHS) in 1968.[7] She was in the school's productions of The Music Man, The Mikado, The Grass Harp, and The Madwoman of Chaillot. In high school, Gleason received acting instruction from John Ingle, later known as Edward Quartermaine on General Hospital, who taught at BHHS from 1955 to 1985. She continued her education at UCLA,[8] then Occidental College, from which she graduated. Gleason has been a teacher herself, holding classes and workshops all over the country.[9]

Gleason made her professional debut in Promises, Promises in 1972.[10] Five years later she debuted on Broadway, originating the role of Monica in Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart's I Love My Wife (1977),[11] for which she was honored with a Theatre World Award.[12] Gleason returned to Broadway in 1984 to appear in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, as a replacement for the role of Charlotte originated by Christine Baranski.[13] In 1985 she played Pam in a revival of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. She won the Drama Desk Award in the same category the following year for her performances off-Broadway as Virginia in Terrence McNally's It's Only a Play and Trudy in Andrew Bergman's Social Security. Gleason had her greatest success as the original Baker's Wife in Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, firstly at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego in 1986, before transferring to Broadway the following year. The New York Times, although somewhat critical of the production, described her as "wonderful,"[15] and she won both the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical (presented by her co-star Bernadette Peters) and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. Her performance was captured on the original cast recording and in a filmed version broadcast on the PBS anthology series Great Performances. In 1991 Gleason played the lead role of Nora Charles in Arthur Laurents, Charles Strouse and Richard Maltby Jr.'s Nick & Nora, a musical adaptation of The Thin Man that encountered numerous troubles in previews and closed after only nine performances.[17] As Muriel in the musical adaptation of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. The following year she played Titsiana in Douglas Carter Beane's The Cartells, a staged soap opera in which the New York Times deemed her "hilarious."[19] In 2007, Gleason was honored by the New England Theatre Conference with a Special Award for Achievement in Theatre.[20]

Gleason has been married three times. She was married to acting coach Paul G. Gleason. She kept his surname professionally, although they divorced on June 28, 1982. Later, she married Michael Bennahum. Gleason has been married to actor Chris Sarandon since 1994. The two met while performing in Broadway's short-lived 1991 musical Nick & Nora, returned to the stage together in Thorn and Bloom (1998),[26] and collaborated on several films, such as Road Ends, Edie & Pen, Let the Devil Wear Black, and American Perfekt. Gleason's siblings are television writer/director Sharon Hall Kessler and Emmy award-winning television writer/director Richard Hall.[27]

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1979 — Diff'rent Strokes — Morgan Winslow — 3 episodes • 1979–80 — Hello, Larry — 37 episodes • 1981 — Bosom Buddies — Faith Crane — Episode: "What Price Glory?" • 1982 — Love, Sidney — Gail — Episode: "The Activist" • 1983 — data-sort-value="New Leave It to Beaver, The" | The New Leave It to Beaver — Kimberly — Episode: "Still the Beaver" • 1983 — Great Day — Jennifer Simpson — Television movie • 1991 — Into the Woods — Baker's Wife — Televised Broadway performance • 1991 — data-sort-value="Boys, The" | The Boys — Marie — Television movie • 1992 — For Richer, for Poorer — Irene — Television movie • 1992–95 — Love & War — Nadine Berkus — 67 episodes • 1993 — Born Too Soon — Annemarie — Television movie • 1994 — For the Love of Aaron — Shirley — Television movie • 1996 — data-sort-value="Outer Limits, The" | The Outer Limits — Leslie — Episode: "Inconstant Moon" • 1996 — ER — Iris — 3 episodes • 1996 — If These Walls Could Talk — Julia (segment: 1974) — Television movie • 1996–98 — Tracey Takes On... — Katherine Hawkins LeAnne the Stewardess — 2 episodes • 1997 — Adventures from the Book of Virtues — Delia Young — Voice; Episode: "Generosity" • 1997 — Temporarily Yours — Joan Silver — 6 episodes • 1997 — Perversions of Science — Mrs. Rabe — Episode: "Anatomy Lesson" • 1997 — Murphy Brown — Athena Gillington — Episode: "Petty Woman" • 1997–2004 — King of the Hill — Various Roles — Voice; 8 episodes • 1998 — George and Leo — Teacher — Episode: "The Teacher" • 1999 — Friends — Kim Clozzi — 2 episodes • 1998–2000 — Oh Baby — Charlotte St. John — 28 episodes • 2000–01 — Bette — Connie Randolph — 18 episodes • 2001 — data-sort-value="Practice, The" | The Practice — Henrietta Lightstone — 2 episodes • 2001–02 — data-sort-value="West Wing, The" | The West Wing — Jordon Kendall — 5 episodes • 2005 — Fathers and Sons — Silvia — Television movie • 2009–12 — data-sort-value="Good Wife, The" | The Good Wife — Judge Carmella Romano — 3 episodes • 2010 — How to Make It in America — Ben's Mother — Episode: "Paper, Denim + Dollars" • 2010 — Delocated — Dr. Mitchell — Episode: Conversions • 2011 — Royal Pains — Evelyn Woodward — Episode: Rash Talk • 2013 — Blue Bloods — Grace Newhouse — 2 episodes • 2014 — data-sort-value="Newsroom, The" | The Newsroom — Nancy Skinner — Episode: "What Kind of Day Has It Been" • 2014–16 — Sensitive Skin — Veronica — 6 episodes • 2015 — data-sort-value="Affair, The" | The Affair — Yvonne — 3 episodes • 2019 — Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Janice Hoffman — Episode: "Kimmy is in a Love Square!" • 2021 — data-sort-value="Bite, The" | The Bite — Veruca Dumont — 3 episodes • 2022 — data-sort-value="Good Fight, The" | The Good Fight — Judge Carmella Romano — 1 episode • 2026 — Elsbeth — Maura Davidoff — season 3 episode 16 "Murder, He Wrote"

• Year — Title — Role — Theatre — Notes • 1972 — Fiddler on the Roof — Tzeitel[28] — Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Regional • 1974 — Hamlet — Ophelia[29] — Mark Taper Forum, Regional — Understudy • 1975 — All My Sons — Ann Deever[30] — Huntington Hartford Theatre, Regional • 1975 — How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — Rosemary — Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Regional — Understudy • 1977–78 — I Love My Wife — Monica — Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway • 1980 — On a Clear Day You Can See Forever — Daisy Gamble/Melinda — Regional Tour • 1984 — data-sort-value="Hell of a Town, A" | A Hell of a Town — n/a — Westside Theatre, Off-Broadway • 1984 — data-sort-value="Real Thing, The" | The Real Thing — Charlotte — Plymouth Theatre, Broadway — Replacement • 1985 — A Day in the Death of Joe Egg — Pam — Haft Theater, Off-Broadway • 1985 — Longacre Theatre, Broadway • 1985–86 — It's Only a Play — Virginia Noyles — New York City Center Stage I, Off-Broadway • 1986 — Social Security — Trudy Heyman — Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway • 1986–87 — Into the Woods — The Baker's Wife — Old Globe Theatre, Regional • 1987–88 — Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway • 1989 • 1989 — Eleemosynary — Artie — New York City Center Stage II, Off-Broadway • 1991 — Nick & Nora — Nora Charles — Marquis Theatre, Broadway • 1997 — Into the Woods — The Baker’s Wife — Broadway Theatre, Broadway — 10th Anniversary Concert • 2004 — data-sort-value="Normal Heart, The" | The Normal Heart — Dr. Emma Brookner — Anspacher Theater, Off-Broadway • 2004 — Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — Muriel Eubanks — Old Globe Theatre, Regional • 2005–06 — Imperial Theatre, Broadway • 2008 — Something You Did — Alison — 59E59 Theaters, Off-Broadway • 2009 — Happiness — Arlene — Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Off-Broadway • 2010 — Into the Woods — The Giant's Wife — Diablo Theatre Company, Regional — Pre-recorded voiceover • 2011 — Sons of the Prophet — Gloria — Huntington Theatre Company, Regional • 2011–12 — Laura Pels Theatre, Off-Broadway • 2022 — Anyone Can Whistle — Narrator — Carnegie Hall — Concert • Into the Woods — The Giant's Wife — Big Noise Theatre Company, Regional — Pre-recorded voiceover • 2025 — We Had a World — Renee — Manhattan Theatre Club

Joanna Gleason was recorded at birth as Joanne Hall. The authorities additionally record the heading Joanne Hall. Her recorded language was English. She was the child of Monty Hall and Marilyn Hall. She married Chris Sarandon. One child is recorded: Aaron David Gleason.

Joanna Gleason is recorded as having studied at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Occidental College and University of California, Los Angeles. Formation and teaching. Gleason studied at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Occidental College and University of California, Los Angeles.

In 1979, Gleason was cast as supporting character Morgan in the television sitcom Hello, Larry starring McLean Stevenson; the series ran for two seasons but was poorly received. In the 1983 television movie Still the Beaver, she played Beaver's ex-wife Kimberly. Gleason debuted on film in 1986, with roles in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (as Carol) and Mike Nichols' Heartburn (as Diana). She worked with Allen again in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), playing Wendy, the wife of Allen's character.[21] She has since appeared in numerous films including F/X2 (1991),[22] Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), The Wedding Planner (2001),[23] and Sex and the City (2004). She played the memorable role of Dirk's mother opposite Mark Wahlberg in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). On television, Gleason played the role of Nadine Berkus on the show Love & War (1992–95), several episodes of which she also directed, and Joan Silver on Temporarily Yours (1997).[24] She starred in the Lifetime series Oh Baby as Charlotte from 1998 to 2000, also directing episodes of this show. Shortly following the end of this series, she starred opposite Bette Midler on Bette as agent Connie Randolph.[25] She appeared in six episodes of the Canadian black comedy series Sensitive Skin as Veronica, from 2014 to 2016. Gleason's numerous guest starring television credits include episodes of The West Wing, The Practice, King of the Hill, Friends, Password Plus, Tracey Takes On..., Murphy Brown, ER, The Outer Limits, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods and The Newsroom.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1986 — Hannah and Her Sisters — Carol • 1986 — Heartburn — Diana • 1989 — Crimes and Misdemeanors — Wendy Stern • 1991 — F/X2 — Liz Kennedy • 1995 — Mr. Holland's Opus — Governor Gertrude Lang • 1996 — Edie & Pen — Maudie • 1997 — American Perfekt — Shirley • 1997 — Boogie Nights — Dirk's Mother • 1997 — Road Ends — Armacost • 1999 — Let the Devil Wear Black — Dr. Rona Hackley • 2001 — data-sort-value="Wedding Planner, The" | The Wedding Planner — Mrs. Donolly • 2006 — Wedding Daze — Lois • 2007 — data-sort-value="Girl in the Park, The" | The Girl in the Park — Sarah • 2008 — Sex and the City — Therapist • 2008 — My Sassy Girl — Kitty/Aunt Sally • 2008 — data-sort-value="Women, The" | The Women — Barbara • 2009 — data-sort-value="Rebound, The" | The Rebound — Roberta Finklestein • 2013 — Last Vegas — Miriam Harris • 2014 — data-sort-value="Skeleton Twins, The" | The Skeleton Twins — Judy