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In 1995 she portrayed Former First Lady Pat Nixon acting opposite Anthony Hopkins playing the title role in the Oliver Stone biographical drama Nixon (1995). Critic Roger Ebert praised Allen's performance writing, "The key supporting performance in the movie is by Joan Allen as Pat Nixon.
Dec 17, 1995 · Her turn as Pat Nixon in ‘Nixon’ may put an end to the quiet. Joan Allen is one of those actresses that audiences have seen without realizing they’ve seen. She doesn’t have movie star ...
When Beatty was thinking about doing the film, he insisted on doing a reading of the script with an actress and Joan Allen was flown in from New York City. Afterwards, Beatty told Stone that he had found his Pat Nixon. [3]
Pat has been portrayed by Joan Allen in the 1995 film Nixon (for which Allen earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Patty McCormack in the 2008 film Frost/Nixon and Nicole Sullivan in the 2009 film Black Dynamite.
Nov 6, 2022 · Joan Allen won multiple critics awards for her portrayal of Pat Nixon. Director Oliver Stone stated that he voted for Nixon in 1968 because Nixon pledged to end the war in Vietnam.
Pat Nixon : I suppose Castro staged the whole thing just to beat you. Richard M. Nixon : Buddy, before you join the jubilation of my being beaten again you should remember that people vote not out of love but fear.
Continuing her work in film as well, Allen received her first Academy Award nomination for her role as Pat Nixon in Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995), for which she also won awards from seven critics' associations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics.
