Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943 in New York, New York, sometime credited as Joan Van Arc) is an actress who is best known for playing Larry Hagman's troubling sister-in-law and Michele Lee's neighbor and best friend, Valene (Val) Clements Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on the CBS primetime soap operas Dallas (1978-1981) and Knots Landing from 1979 to 1992. The role originated in a guest appearance on Dallas, from which Knots Landing is a spin-off. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (576x864, 462 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Joan Van Ark ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (576x864, 462 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Joan Van Ark ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Larry Hagman (born on September 21, 1931) is a popular American actor who is famous for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television soap opera Dallas and Major Anthony Nelson on the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. ... Michele Lee (born on June 24, 1942) is an American singer, dancer, actress, producer, director and frequent game show panelist of the 1970s who is of Russian-Polish descent is best-known for her role as the beloved matriarch Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie on the 1980s prime-time soap opera... Valene Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing, also known as Val , was a character in the American television series Knots Landing and also in the television series Dallas, played by Joan Van Ark. ... CBS is derived from an abbreviation of Columbia Broadcasting System, the former legal name of a company Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired in 1995. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is becoming very long. ... For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). ... Media:rofl. ... This article is becoming very long. ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ...

She won the Soap Opera Digest Award for "Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role: Prime Time" for the part in 1986. She was nominated for the same award in 1988 and 1991. Played a secretary on "It's The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown". The Soap Opera Digest Awards are an award show held by the daytime television magazine Soap Opera Digest. ...

She began her acting career after graduating from university by understudying for Glenn Close on Broadway. Many years later she appeared Off-Broadway in the role temporarily vacated by Marian Seldes (who was shooting a film) in Edward Albee's play, Three Tall Women. Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ... Marian Seldes ( born Aug 23, 1928 in New York City) is an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned five decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame. ... Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Edward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox. ... Three Tall Women is a play by Edward Albee. ...

She also originated the role of "Gloria Fisher Abbott" on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 2004 to 2005. The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R) is an American soap opera that has been broadcast on CBS since March 26, 1973. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Other noteworthy roles

M*A*S*H

Joan Van Ark was also featured in an episode of M*A*S*H, where she played Erika, a nurse working with Captain Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda). When a Communist soldier brought in with other casualties grabbed a surgical knife and held the hospital at bay, her character was slashed in the hand. Throughout the episode, she developed a relationship with Hawkeye. M*A*S*H is an American television series created by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, inspired by the 1961 novel Catch-22, the 1968 Richard Hooker novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors and its sequels; and the 1970 film of the same name. ... Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce is the lead fictional character in the M*A*S*H novels, film, and television series. ... Alan Alda (born Alfonso Joseph DAbruzzo on January 28, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and sometime political activist. ...

Rhoda

Van Ark guest starred in an early episode of Rhoda, playing Joe Gerard's (Rhoda Morgenstern's then-fiance) glamorous looking, seemingly perfect ex-wife. In the episode, Rhoda and her mother, Ida (Nancy Walker), stop by (the former) Mrs. Gerard's house to pick up Joe's son, and Ida, as only Ida could, seeing how insecure Rhoda feels in the presence of Mrs. Gerard, succeeds in puncturing the woman's "perfect" facade. Rhoda is an American situation comedy and a television spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress. ...

Family

Joan Van Ark and her husband (since 1966) John Marshall have one child, voice actress/performer Vanessa Marshall, who was born in 1969. A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, stop motion, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and television commercials. ... Vanessa Marshall (born 1970, daughter of Joan Van Ark and niece of Carol Kuykendall) is an actress best known for her voice over work. ...

Trivia

• In Dutch, her name is literally "Joan of Ark."

Had a steamy love scene in "When The Dark Man Calls" Image of Joan of Arc, painted between 1450 and 1500 (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490). ...

External links

• Joan Van Ark at the Internet Movie Database