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| Birth Name(s) : Joanna Cassidy |
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Full Joanna Cassidy Biography
Joanna Cassidy (born August 2, 1944) is an American actress who has been active in film and television much of her career.
Cassidy was born Joanna Virginia Caskey in Haddonfield, New Jersey. She got her start guest starring on television series such as Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Starsky & Hutch and Fantasy Island, as well as having starring roles on programs such as 240-Robert, Buffalo Bill, and Dallas. In 1982, she had her first major feature film role as the replicant Zhora in Blade Runner. The following year, she co-starred in Under Fire with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte. She was also featured in such films as Hollywood Wives (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Package (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Barbarians at the Gate (1993), the 1993 adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).
Cassidy is also known for her recurring role as Margaret Chenowith on Six Feet Under which she played for the entire series. Interestingly, her husband on the show was played by Robert Foxworth, whom she also acted with in episodes of both Falcon Crest and Star Trek: Enterprise. She earned a guest acting Emmy nomination for this role in 2006. She was in a famous and unsettling "Smokey the Bear" commercial in 1973 where she tells people to be extra careful in the forest at which point she removes her face, revealing her to be "Smokey" in disguise and tells people, "If you knew it was me, would you have listened?"
In the second season of the NBC series Heroes, she is seen in a photo of the 12 senior members of the show's mysterious company. Beyond appearances in photographs, the actress first appeared as Victoria Pratt in the 10th episode of season two, "Truth & Consequences". |
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