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Jo Harvey Allen

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Jo Harvey Allen
Guy Clark, the dean of Texas songwriters, struggles to write poetic songs while balancing a complicated marriage with wife Susanna, and a deep friendship with writer Townes Van Zandt, who Susanna forged a passionate dependence on.
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Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher). She is most recently featured in The Homesman (Cannes 2014, dir. Tommy Lee Jones), Women Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble, and is nominated for Best Lead Actress, International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Berlin for her co-starring role in The Other Kind (2015, dir. Rosalyn Rosen), Los Angeles Film Review Honorable Mention for Best Feature Film. She has written, starred, and toured her acclaimed one-woman plays throughout the US and abroad, including the off-Broadway productions of A Moment's Hesitation (Dance Theater Workshop & The New School, NYC), Counter Angel (The New School, NYC), and As it is in Texas (St. Ann's Church, NYC). Her other one-woman plays include Hally Lou (originally produced by Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO., MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A.), Duckblind (Cornet Theater, L.A.), and Homerun (Remembrance Through the Performing Arts, Austin, TX.). She co-wrote and starred in Chippy...Diaries of a West Texas Hooker (American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, PA and Lincoln Center, NYC). Allen co-wrote, starred, and toured the opera Pioneer (Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC), Do You Know What Your Children Are Tonight? (Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; Theater Artaud, San Francisco), and Covenant (Ann Hamilton's Tower, Oliver Ranch Foundation, Geyserville, CA). She is married to artist, singer/songwriter Terry Allen (1962-present) and has starred in all of his radio and theater pieces, including Juarez, The Embrace...Advanced To Fury, Anti-Rabbit Bleeder...A Biography, Reunion, Warboy (and the backboard blues), Ghost Ship Rodez, and MemWars Live. Allen co-wrote Every Three Minutes (radio play, NPR) and hosted the radio show Rawhide and Roses (KPPC AM/FM-Pasadena, CA. 1965-'69), authored Cheek to Cheek, a collection of poems (Duckdown Press), and Homerun (self-published). She co-hosted the first Texas Funny Women's Symposium with Texas Gov. Ann Richards and was the MC for Little Feat's Lowell George Tribute in L.A. and Terry Allen's "Lubbock (on Everything)" tribute, Lubbock, TX. Her photographs, lithographs and installations have been exhibited most recently at the National Museum of Peru, the Humboldt Museum in Havana, Cuba and the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA. She is the recipient of Art Matters and NEA fellowships and 2015 inductee to the West Texas Walk of Fame. The Allen's have two sons, three grandsons, and live and work in Santa Fe, NM and Austin, TX.
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Jo Harvey Allen, Richard Dillard, Paula Rhodes, Justin Arnold, Dane Hurlburt, and Carson Trinity Haverda in The Other Kind (2015)

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Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank in The Homesman (2014)
The Homesman
6.6
  • Mrs. Polhemus
  • 2014
Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, and Brad Renfro in The Client (1994)
The Client
6.7
  • Claudette
  • 1994
Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
In the Valley of Elah
7.2
  • Jo Anne
  • 2007
Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Fried Green Tomatoes
7.7
  • Women's Awareness Teacher
  • 1991

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Actress

  • Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
    Killers of the Flower Moon
    • Aunt Annie
    • 2023
  • Jo Harvey Allen, Richard Dillard, Paula Rhodes, Justin Arnold, Dane Hurlburt, and Carson Trinity Haverda in The Other Kind (2015)
    The Other Kind
    • Momma
    • 2015
  • Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank in The Homesman (2014)
    The Homesman
    • Mrs. Polhemus
    • 2014
  • Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron in In the Valley of Elah (2007)
    In the Valley of Elah
    • Jo Anne
    • 2007
  • Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Eddie Griffin, and Eva Mendes in The Wendell Baker Story (2005)
    The Wendell Baker Story
    • Wanda King
    • 2005
  • Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, and Haley Joel Osment in Secondhand Lions (2003)
    Secondhand Lions
    • Woman in Hospital
    • 2003
  • Screen Door Jesus (2003)
    Screen Door Jesus
    • Lorraine Herbert
    • 2003
  • Charlize Theron, Patrick Swayze, Billy Bob Thornton, Natasha Richardson, and Panagiotis Golfis in Waking Up in Reno (2002)
    Waking Up in Reno
    • Waitress at Big Texan
    • 2002
  • Ed Bruce, Josh Holloway, and Channon Roe in Mi Amigo (2002)
    Mi Amigo
    • 2002
  • Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz in All the Pretty Horses (2000)
    All the Pretty Horses
    • Judge's Wife
    • 2000
  • Fool's Gold (1999)
    Fool's Gold
    • 1999
  • Dana Delany and Danny Nucci in The Outfitters (1999)
    The Outfitters
    • Vonda
    • 1999
  • Floating Away (1998)
    Floating Away
    • Dahlia
    • TV Movie
    • 1998
  • Scattering Dad
    • Reva
    • TV Movie
    • 1998
  • The Lazarus Man (1996)
    The Lazarus Man
    • Unknown
    • TV Series
    • 1996

Writer

  • Storyville: The Naked Dance (1998)
    Storyville: The Naked Dance
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    • TV Special
    • 1998
  • Floundering (1994)
    Floundering
    • additional dialogue
    • 1994

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The Other Kind [Official Trailer] (2016)
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The Other Kind [Official Trailer] (2016)

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    • Terry Allen1961 - present (2 children)
  • Other works
    Theater, Anti-Rabbit Bleeder/A Biography*, Lead, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

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    Husband is country singer-songwriter Terry Allen; he is also an acclaimed artist.

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