Joan Holloway
| Joan Holloway | |
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Joan Holloway
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| First appearance | "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (1.01) |
| Last appearance | "Person to Person" (7.14) |
| Created by | Matthew Weiner |
| Portrayed by | Christina Hendricks |
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| Aliases | Joan Holloway (maiden name) Joan Harris (married name) Red (nickname) |
| Occupation | Founder, Director of "Holloway-Harris" Former:Director of Agency Operations (Season 4-), Junior Partner (Season 5-) Office Manager (Season 1-2, 4) Housewife (Season 3) Sales Associate at Bonwit Teller (Season 3) |
| Family | Gail Holloway (mother) |
| Spouse(s) | Scotty (last name unknown; ex-husband) Greg Harris (ex-husband) |
| Children | Kevin Harris (with Roger Sterling) |
| Romances |
Roger Sterling (ex-lover) Paul Kinsey (ex-lover) Bob Benson (dated platonically) Richard Burghoff (ex-lover) |
Joan P. Holloway is a fictional character in Mad Men. She is portrayed by Christina Hendricks.
Hendricks has received six consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations and has won two Critics' Choice Television Awards for her performance. She has also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series twice along with the cast of Mad Men.
Joan was born on February 24, 1931. From Season 1 through Season 3, Joan is the office manager at the advertising agency Sterling Cooper. Her primary responsibilities are to manage the secretarial, steno, and telephone operators pools; attend to the needs of the executives; and organize agency events. She is also seen during meetings with the heads of departments, implementing Roberts Rules of Order, taking notes, and reminding the male staff of their duties to their clients, and assisting the CFO, Lane Pryce, with SC financial duties.
Joan had a lengthy romantic involvement with Roger Sterling, which ended after Roger's heart attack. After Marilyn Monroe's death, Roger walks into his office to find Joan lying on his couch and crying. Realizing she is upset over the similarities she sees between the actress's life and her own, Roger comforts Joan by assuring her she will not end up alone and in despair like Monroe.
Sometime before the start of the series, Joan was briefly married to a man named Scotty. Though Scotty is never seen, she mentioned to a friend in the season 6 episode "To Have and To Hold" that her marriage to him was the "worst six months of my life."
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