Joanna Cassidy

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Joanna Cassidy (born Joanna Virginia Caskey on August 2, 1945 in Haddonfield, New Jersey) is an American actress who has been active in film and television much of her career.

Cassidy got her start guest starring on television series such as Mission: Impossible, Falcon Crest, Starsky & Hutch and Fantasy Island, as well as having starring roles on programs such as 240-Robert, Buffalo Bill, and Dallas.

In 1982, she had her first major feature film role as the replicant Zhora in Blade Runner. The following year, she co-starred in Under Fire with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte. She was also featured in such films as Hollywood Wives (1985), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Package (1989), Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Barbarians at the Gate (1993), the 1993 adaptation of Stephen King's The Tommyknockers and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn (1995).

On television, she provided the voice of Maggie Sawyer in the 1990s animated series of Superman, has had recurring guest roles on shows such as Diagnosis Murder and The District; and has guest starred on Everwood and Star Trek: Enterprise as T'Les, the mother of T'Pol. She voiced the villain character Hecubah in the computer game Nox. She also appeared opposite actor James Garner, playing his ex-wife, in the 1994 television movie "The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A." She was also in the 2002 film, Ghosts of Mars, made by John Carpenter.

Cassidy is also known for her recurring role as Margaret Chenowith on Six Feet Under which she has played for all five seasons, since the show began in 2001. Interestingly, her husband on the show was played by Robert Foxworth, whom she also acted with in episodes of both Falcon Crest and Star Trek: Enterprise. She earned a guest acting Emmy nomination for this role in 2006.

Joanna was in a famous "Smokey Bear" commercial in 1973 where she tells people to be extra careful in the forest then turns into "Smokey" in disguise and tells people, "if this was me, would you have listened?"

Cassidy has a daughter and a son from her marriage in the 1960s.