Joanna Going first caught the public's attention during her stints on two popular NBC soap operas in the mid to late 1980s: on "Search for Tomorrow" she was ingenue Evie Stone and on "Another World", psychic Lisa Grady. The ravishing oval-faced brunette also appeared in a variety of stage productions in western MA and off-Broadway before landing her first primetime gig--a busted pilot for a sci-fi series in which she played a frontier sheriff trying to maintain peace while raising her two younger siblings. Going was seen to better effect as the governess with mysterious ties to her employers in the primetime remake of the Gothic horror soap opera "Dark Shadows" (NBC, 1991). On the ABC comedy-drama "Going to Extremes", shot on location in Jamaica, she was a serious medical student attending school in the Caribbean. Going made an impressive film debut as Kevin Costner's second wife in the overproduced (and overlong) "Wyatt Earp" (1994). As Josephine (Josie) Marcus, a Jewish actress originally engaged to a rival of Earp's, Going displayed a gutsy adventuresome quality and more than held her own against her impressive co-star. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of the youthful version of Jean Simmons' character in Jocelyn Moorhouse's "How to Make an American Quilt" and appeared briefly as an anti-war demonstrator in Oliver Stone's "Nixon" (both 1995). 1997 shaped up as a good year for the actress who had three roles that demonstrated her versality: she was the eldest "good" sister of Liv Tyler and Jennifer Connelly in Pat O'Connor's drama "Inventing the Abbotts", an unstable stripper in the comic thriller "Keys to Tulsa" and a con artist who is (literally) the woman of Brendan Fraser's dreams in the romantic comedy "Still Breathing".
Profession(s):
Actor
Sometimes Credited As:
Joanna C Going
Family
brother:Andrew J Going (younger)
brother:David M Going (younger)
brother:Martin F Going (younger)
brother:Paul B Going (younger)
daughter:Stella Haven Walsh (born November 22, 2003; father is Dylan Walsh)
father:John Burke Going (died on March 6, 1999 at age 64)
mother:Lorraine M Going (police dispatcher)
sister:Carla Lundquist (younger)
Companion(s)
Adam Duritz
, Companion
, ```..no longer together
Harley Peyton
, Companion
, ```..together from 1995 to c. 1997; wrote screenplay for and produced "Keys to Tulsa"
Education
Emerson College Boston, Massachusetts
American Academy of Dramatic Arts New York, New York
1997 Appeared alongside Jennifer Connelly and Liv Tyler in "Inventing the Abbotts"
1995 Played femme lead in the CBS Western miniseries "Children of the Dust"
1994 Feature film debut, "Wyatt Earp", as Earp's second wife Josie
1992 Featured in a "Columbo" TV movie "No Time to Die" (ABC) as a kidnapped bride; first "Columbo" not to revolve around solving a murder
1992 - 1993 Appeared in ensemble comedy-drama "Going to Extremes" (ABC) as medical student Kathleen McDermott
1991 Primetime series debut in dual roles of Victoria Winters and Josette DuPres in remake of "Dark Shadows" (NBC)
1989 First primetime TV appearance as lead in busted sci-fi pilot "Outpost" (CBS)
1987 Joined cast of soap opera "Another World" (NBC)
1985 TV debut on the NBC daytime drama "Search for Tomorrow"; cast over 400 others at an open call (date approximate)
Raised in Newport County, Rhode Island
Left college to move to NYC to study at AADA
Appeared in stage productions in Massachusetts and off-Broadway
Broadway debut in National Actors' Theater production of Clifford Odets' "The Flowering Peach"