Rochelle, Illinois - People from Rochelle, Illinois, Joan Allen, Whitcomb Locomotive Works, Scot Hollonbeck, Rochelle Railroad Park (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Rochelle, Illinois, Joan Allen, Whitcomb Locomotive Works, Scot Hollonbeck, Rochelle Railroad Park, Rochelle Township High School, Tom Smith. Excerpt: Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989. She has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Nixon (1995) and The Crucible (1996), and for Best Actress for The Contender (2000). Her other films include Face/Off (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Notebook, The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Allen, the youngest of four children, was born in Rochelle, Illinois, the daughter of Dorothea Marie (ne Wirth), a homemaker, and James Jefferson Allen, a gas station owner. She has an older brother, David, and two older sisters, Mary and Lynn. Allen attended Rochelle Township High School, and was voted most likely to succeed. After attending Kishwaukee College, she transferred to Northern Illinois University in 1976, where she graduated with a BFA in Theatre Performance. Allen began her performing career as a stage actress and on television before making her film debut in the movie, Compromising Positions (1985). She has been a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble since 1977. In 1989, Allen won a Tony Award for her Broadway debut performance in Burn This. She also starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Pat Nixon in Nixon (1995) and as Elizabeth Proctor, a woman accused of witc... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=508453