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Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. [ 1] She starred in the 1968 western Will Penny. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1981 film Only When I Laugh. [ 2]
Joan Hackett was well known as a social activist, embracing solar energy and losing causes such as the preservation of the old Morosco Theatre in Times Square with equal fervor. According to personal friends, she accepted her fate with equanimity and dignity, dying at the age of just 49 in a hospital in Encino, California, in October 1983.
Oct 10, 1983 · Joan Hackett, a respected actress who won critical acclaim throughout her career, died of cancer in Encino Hospital in California on Saturday night. She was 49 years old.
Oct 8, 2013 · When actress Joan Hackett died of ovarian cancer 30 years ago today at just 49 years old, she joined a group of notable women who fought the same devastating disease: comedienne Gilda...
American actress and activist. Born Joan Ann Hackett on May 1, 1942, in New York City; died of cancer on October 8, 1983, in Encino, California; daughter of John (a postal clerk) and Mary (Esposito) Hackett; graduated from St. Jean Baptiste School, New York City; married Richard Mulligan (an actor), on January 3, 1966 (divorced 1973).
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Oct 12, 1983 · HOLLYWOOD -- Actress Joan Hackett was eulogized Wednesday as a person who loved God and believed in the hereafter at Roman Catholic services attended by 150 mourners.
Joan Ann Hackett, March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983, was an American actress of film, stage and television. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for the 1966 film The Group, and starred in the 1967 western Will Penny.
Oct 12, 2023 · Hackett won numerous awards, including an Obie, for her off-Broadway performance in 1961’s Call Me by My Rightful Name. She continued to alternate her theatrical appearances with her TV work through 1965.
Slender, gentle-featured lead and supporting actress of the 1960s and 70s, most typically in nonglamorous roles. After experience as a model and acting training under Lee Strasberg and others, Hackett gained notice off-Broadway with her award-winning work in "Call Me by My Rightful Name" (1961).
Joan Ann Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress.