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Full Joanna Gleason Biography
Joanna Gleason (born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known as a Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress and has had a number of notable film and TV roles.
Gleason was born Joanne Hall, daughter of Monty Hall and Marilyn Plottel Hall (formerly Halprin), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the time, her father worked at the Canadian Wheat Board and had changed his name from Halprin to Hall to sound better on the radio. He later started his TV career and went on to fame as host of Let's Make a Deal. Monty Hall's brother Robert also changed his name to Hall.
Although Gleason has had an active film and TV career, she is probably best known for her stage work. Gleason made her Broadway debut in 1977 in I Love My Wife, for which she was honored with a Theatre World Award. Additional Broadway credits include The Real Thing, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Nick & Nora, Into the Woods (for which she won several awards including a Tony Award in the lead role of the Baker's Wife), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Cartells. In early 2002, she directed her first New York play.
Gleason has been married to actor Chris Sarandon since 1994. The two met while performing in Broadway’s 1991 short-lived musical Nick & Nora. They returned to the stage together in 1998's Thorn and Bloom and have also have collaborated together on several films including Road Ends, Edie and Pen, Let the Devil Wear Black, and American Perfekt. Previously Gleason was married to Michael Bennahum and Paul G. Gleason whose last name she still uses for acting purposes. Gleason and Sarandon have four children: Aaron David Gleason, from her first marriage, and Stephanie, Alexis, and Michael Sarandon, from his second marriage.
Gleason's siblings are television writer/director Sharon Hall Kessler, and Emmy-award winning television writer/director Richard Hall. |
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