Joan Van Ark Age, Husband, Children, Family, Net Worth

Joan Van Ark is an award-winning American actress best known for her role as “Valene Ewing”, a fictional character on the CBS soap opera titled Landing Knots (1979) which spun off from another CBS network soap opera titled Dallas. Joan Van Ark has been active in Hollywood since the late 60s and continues to be relevant to this day.

With a host of film credits to her name, it’s safe to say that Joan’s star status in Hollywood is well deserved. With over 400 episodes of soap operas under her belt, there is no doubt that Joan has had an enviable acting career so far. Sadly, it’s safe to say she’s had her share of bad luck with beauty-enhancing plastic surgeries. Her efforts with plastic surgeries did not enhance her beauty in any way, but on the contrary, they spoiled her. Nonetheless, in my opinion, she remains one of the soap opera queens in Hollywood today.

Bio, Age

Joan Van Ark was born on the 16th ^day of June 1943; in New York City. By the age of 15, Joan was already the senior reporter at her high school. She was so good at the job that she got the chance to interview famous Hollywood actress Julie Harris. After the interview session, Julie was deeply impressed by Joan’s charisma and eloquence. She saw the actress at Joan and recommended her to the Yale School of Drama graduate program.

Joan also received a full scholarship to attend the graduate program. This move made her one of the few students to be admitted to the Yale School of Drama; straight out of high school with no undergraduate degree. She was also the second youngest student to be admitted to the Yale School of Drama after Julie Harris. Joan, for unknown reasons, only spent one year at the Yale School of Drama. However, as fate may have foretold, Joan would be paired with Julie for the cast of the CBS television series, Landing Knots (1979). And just as you have it, they ended up playing mother (Julie) and daughter (Joan).

Joan Van Ark – Career

Joan Van Ark began her acting career when she had her first gig in the five-act comedy play titled L’avare written by famous French playwright Moliere and performed at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She would next be featured alongside Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in Arthur Miller ‘s Death of a Salesman at the same Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Joan spent a season at Arena Stage in Washington, D. and then later cast Mike Nichols. Bare feet in the park

Van Ark has made a few significant appearances on Broadway. She notably starred in the New York production of Edward Albee’s Three Great Women which won the Pulitzer Prize. Joan has also graced some of the premier theaters in beautiful Los Angeles, featuring great plays like Cyrano de Bergerac. Van Ark’s outstanding acting won him the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award; Railroad and House of Sorrows. Joan would go on to star as ‘Lady Macbeth’ in one of Williams Shakespeare’s greatest plays, Macbeth. She has also presented the Williamstown Theater Festival productions Night of the Iguana andThe Legend of Oedipus. For her commendable performance in the play titled L’école des femmes, Joan was nominated Tony and won the Theater World Award for her breathtaking portrayal in Rules of the Game

Filmography Credits

• The Show of New Temperatures (1972)
• We Got Along (1977)
• My First Love (1988)
• Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (1988)
• Always Remember That I Love You (1990)
• Terror on Track 9 (1992)
• Tainted Blood (1993)
• Someone’s Watching (1993): Here she doubled as actor and producer.
• Menu for Murder (1994)
• Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997)
• Boys Will Be Boys (1999); in which she acted and directed.
• Held for Ransom (2000)
• UP, Michigan! (2001)
• My Name is Earl (2009)
• Archer Ruth (2011)
• Watercolor Postcards (2012)
• Dallas (2013)
• Psycho Marriage Crasher (2017)

Joan Van Ark is also a voiceover, providing the voices of notable cartoon and video game characters, for example. Spider Woman (1979), the CBS cartoon series titled Santo Bugito (1995) and Fallout 4 (2015). She made a short documentary on homelessness and domestic violence for the Directors Guild of America in 1997. This documentary received high praise from fans and stakeholders in Hollywood. It was even nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

Family, husband, children

Van was named after legendary Joan of Arc by her parents, Dorothy Jean Van Ark and Carroll Van Ark, both New York-based writers. However, Joan’s father, who is of Dutch descent, also did advertising and acted as a public relations consultant. Jean and Carroll would eventually move to Boulder, Colorado where they raised Joan, her three siblings Carol, Mark and Dexter.

Joan unlike her character Valene (in which she played Landing Knots ) has only been married once. In fact, she married and remains married to her high school sweetheart, John Marshall, an award-winning former journalist who once worked for KNBC-TV (a Los Angeles television station owned by NBC). He currently runs eNewswires.com, an online news network. Joan and John have been married since the 1 ^st of February 1966 and they are happily married with no rumors of infidelity or divorce.

Van and John have just one child, a daughter named Vanessa Marshall born on the 19th ^day of October 1969 and like her mother is a successful actress, director and a model. Vanessa is most popular for her voiceover roles in many cartoons, movies, and video games. Some of them include; Avengers Assemble, Batman: The Dauntless, Ben 10, Dr. Dolittle 3, Garfield’s Pet Force, Justice League: The Standstill Paradox, Advent Rising, and Diablo III etc. Vanessa, however, did not take a cue from her mother as she is already divorced. In 2001, she married actor Andrew Kishino, but they have been separated since 2007.

Net value

Unfortunately and surprisingly, Joan Van Ark’s net worth has yet to be determi