Joanna Cassidy Biography

Fast Facts

• Appeared in a 1973 Smokey the Bear public-service announcement
• Cold-called casting director Joyce Selznick in 1973 and got a reading for a film that turned out to be The Laughing Policeman; she got the part
• Was set to star in 1975's The Stepford Wives, but was replaced by Paula Prentiss after two weeks of shooting
• Had the title role in the 1975 TV-adventure Wonder Woman until director Jack Arnold insisted on handing the part to Lynda Carter
• Voiced Insp
• Maggie Sawyer in the WB's Superman: The Animated Series and the 2002 video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips
• For the 2007 25th anniversary re-release of Blade Runner: Final Cut, her head was digitally transposed onto that of a stunt performer who had shot the scenes in the original
• Thirty years after the release of Blade Runner, she teamed with producer-director Tamela D'Amico to shoot a scene of her replicant character Zhora doing an exotic dance with a snake
• The scene had originally been choreographed and rehearsed for the 1982 sci-fi film, but was never shot
• An animal activist, she supports Last Chance for Animals