About Joanna Pettet
Joanna Jane Pettet (born Joanna Jane Salmon; 16 November 1942 – 7 July 2026) was an American, Canadian and English actress who was active during the 60s, 70s and 80s before retiring from acting in her late 40s around 1991. == Early life == Joanna Jane Salmon was born in London, England, on 16 November 1942, the daughter of Harold Nigel Egerton Salmon and Cecily J. Tremaine, who were married in Chelsea, London, in 1940. Her father, a British Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot, was killed in the Second World War in 1943. After the war, her mother remarried and settled in Montréal, where Joanna was adopted by her stepfather and assumed his surname of "Pettet". When Pettet was in her teens, she moved to New York City. == Career == Pettet studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, as well as at the Lincoln Center, and made her debut, aged 19, on Broadway in Take Her, She's Mine (21 December 1961 – 8 December 1962). She also appeared on Broadway in The Chinese Prime Minister, and Poor Richard. Beginning in 1964 with an episode of Route 66, she began making guest appearances in several US dramatic television series of the mid-sixties, including The Doctors, The Nurses, The Trials of O'Brien, The Fugitive, A Man Called Shenandoah, and Dr. Kildare. She was cast in writer/producer Sidney Buchman's 1966 adaptation of Mary McCarthy's novel The Group.
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