Joan Blair

Joan Blair was born in New Orleans, Lousiana in 1960. She acted in school and in several regional theater groups. She studied at the Herbert-Berghof Acting Studio, in New York City, where she studied with Uta Hagen and Michael Beckett, among others. She attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Cal-State University-Northridge and completed her studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg in 1996. She received a BFA in Theatre, with an emphasis in Acting and Directing. Blair began pursuing her acting career in film and television. She has had Co-Starring roles on such TV shows as; "Tracey Takes On...", "Rude Awakening", "Malcolm In the Middle", "Judging Amy", "Monk", "My Name Is Earl", and "Criminal Minds". She has had diverse roles in films including: "Mr. Chick Magnet," "Echos of Enlightenment", "Donnie Darko", "Daddy Daycare", and "Surviving Christmas". She was also seen in "Baadasssss", Mario Van Peebles' film about his father Melvin's struggle to make t