Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.
Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
I was actually fired from that show.
There was a lot of that in the script already, which was nice. It's something I'm interested in, and that was one of the things I liked about the movie, that it had parenting stuff in it. So we talked about it, what really is going on, and that was nice to have those kind of discussions.
Well, some of it, I think, is culture and movie culture, and the kind of roles that people write, and what's available and what's available to me living in Chicago and trying to balance my own parental concerns with- you know, being a good parent and trying to make it work and do this.
You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
Joan is set to portray cooking legend Julia Child in a new movie about her life, production starts in late December, 2006.
Joan performed "The Mirror Song" in the 1992 movie Toys, starring Robin Williams, and LL Cool J.
Joan was set to play the role of Bobbie Mancotiz in the 2004 movie The Stepford Wives with her brother John, but dropped out of the role to tend to her ailing grandfather. Bette Midler replaced her.
Joan's most memorable character performances on Saturday Night Live, were as Salena, the social misfit who had problems asking out her boyfriend (Jon Lovitz), who was equally as awkward.
Joan's first major role in a film was in the 1980 movie The Bodyguard.
Joan and her brother John have appeared in eight movies together so far: Class in 1988, Grandview, USA in 1984, 16 Candles in 1984, Broadcast News in 1987, Say Anything in 1989, Gross Pointe Blank in 1997, Cradle Will Rock, in 1999, and High Fidelity in 2000.
Joan's entire family are actors and actresses, including all four siblings and her parents.
Recently did the voice of Abby Mallard, a.k.a. The Ugly Duckling, for Disney's Chicken Little.
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