Joan Hackett

Joan Hackett

Joan Ann Hackett was an American actress of film, stage and television. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for the 1966 film The Group. Hackett died of ovarian cancer on October 8, 1983, at Encino Hospital in Encino, California.

About Joan Hackett in brief

Summary Joan HackettJoan Ann Hackett was an American actress of film, stage and television. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for the 1966 film The Group, and starred in the 1967 western Will Penny. She also starred as Christine Mannon in the 1978 PBS miniseries version of Mourning Becomes Electra. Hackett died of ovarian cancer on October 8, 1983, at Encino Hospital in Encino, California.

Her remains are entombed in The Abbey of The Psalms Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where her epitaph reads: “Go Away — I’m Asleep” She was born in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the daughter of Mary ; and John Hackett, and grew up in Elmhurst, Queens. She had a sister, Theresa, and a brother, John.