Joanna Pettet
| Joanna Pettet | |
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Pettet in 1976.
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| Born |
Joanna Jane Salmon 16 November 1942 London, England, UK |
| Years active | 1964–1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Alex Cord (1968–1989); 1 child |
Joanna Pettet (born Joanna Jane Salmon, 16 November 1942) is a British actress, retired since 1990.
Pettet was born Joanna Jane Salmon in London, England. Her parents, Harold Nigel Edgerton Salmon, a British Royal Air Force pilot killed in the Second World War, and Cecily J. Tremaine, were married in London in 1940. After the war, her mother remarried and settled in Canada, where young Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of "Pettet".
When Pettet was 16, she moved to New York City. Newspaper columnist Walter Winchell described her as "a breathtaking teen-age darling from Canada."
She studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, as well as at the Lincoln Center, and got her start on Broadway in such plays as Take Her, She's Mine,The Chinese Prime Minister, and Poor Richard, with Alan Bates and Gene Hackman, before she was discovered by director Sidney Lumet for his film adaptation in 1966 of Mary McCarthy's novel The Group. The success of that film launched a film career that included roles in The Night of the Generals (1967), as Mata Bond in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967), Peter Yates's Robbery (1967) with Stanley Baker, Blue (1968) with Terence Stamp, and the Victorian period comedy The Best House in London (1969).
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