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Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, writer, producer, choreographer and actress. She had a long association with the celebrated director Robert Altman, writing the screenplays for Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville (1975), widely regarded as "Altman's masterpiece", and which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.
- Film and television actress, director, and screenwriter
- April 8, 1936 (age 87), Redlands, California, United States
Joan Tewkesbury. Actress: Nashville. Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller ...
- April 8, 1936
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Actress: Nashville. Joan Tewkesbury began her career at age ten as a dancer in The Unfinished Dance. A few years later she appeared as an Ostrich, an Indian and Mary Martin's flying understudy in Jerome Robbin's Peter Pan. She attended University of Southern California, became a choreographer, a theatre director, a script supervisor for Robert ...
- Producer, Director, Actress
- April 8, 1936
- Joan Tewkesbury
Oct 22, 2015 · Tewkesbury, or “Tewkes” as she’s known at the Lab, has been working in an advising capacity at the Sundance Feature Film Program for more than a decade, and in recent years running her Designed Obstacles workshop, which teaches methods for grounding one’s writing in real life and honest emotional experiences.
Joan Tewkesbury (1936-) biography on Film Reference. Born April 8, 1936, in Redlands, CA; daughter of Walter S. (an office machinerepairman) and Frances M. (a registered nurse; maiden name, Stevenson) Tewkesbury; married Robert F. Maguire III, November 30, 1960 (divorced, January, 1973); children: Robin Tewkesbury, Peter Harlan.
Joan Tewkesbury. Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American producer, director, screenwriter and actress best known for collaborating with Robert Altman on his films Thieves Like Us and Nashville. She was married to Robert F. Maguire III and they have three children.
Joan Tewkesbury parlayed her experience as a stage director into work as a script supervisor for Robert Altman on "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" (1971). Her skills honed in the nurturing womb of New Hollywood, which rejected sexist prohibitions and encouraged collaboration, instinct and improvisation, Tewkesbury found fame at age 40, scripting Altman ...
