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Joan Van Ark [1942-0] American

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Actress

Joan Van Ark is an American actress, known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park.

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I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.		101
Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.	Great	102
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.		103
I'm Presbyterian and I don't go to church very much.		104
I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing.		105
Knots was about the relationships that were built over many years.		106
When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.		107
They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.		108
My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.		109
I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.		110
So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.		111
When you're on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.		112
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.		113
I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.		114
You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.		115
When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.		116
When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.		117
Running is my church.		118
David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.		119

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