Harvey Brownstone Interviews...

Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Hollywood Actress, Joan Van Ark

July 20, 2021 Harvey Brownstone Season 1 Episode 69
Harvey Brownstone Interviews...
Harvey Brownstone Interviews Legendary Hollywood Actress, Joan Van Ark
Show Notes

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with Legendary Hollywood Actress, Joan Van Ark

About Harvey’s guest

Best known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing, she is a life member of The Actors Studio.  She made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park.  In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives.

Ms. Van Ark landed her most famous role, Valene Ewing, in 1978, first on the CBS series Dallas, then for 13 seasons on its spin-off Knots Landing (1979–92). For this role, she won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Actress in 1986 and 1989. She left the show in 1992, although she did return for the final episode of the series in 1993 and for the 1997 miniseries Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac.  In 1985, she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination as host of the Tournament of Roses Parade on CBS.  From 2004 to 2005, she starred in the soap opera The Young and the Restless.  She reprised her role of Valene in an episode of the new Dallas series in 2013 and has been in numerous movies and TV shows, including “Touched By an Angel”, “The Nanny”, and “Nip/Tuck”.

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