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Joanna C. Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress. Born in Washington, D.C., she is the oldest of six children of Lorraine M. (née Calise), a police dispatcher, and John Burke Going, a state assemblyman and lawyer. Raised in Newport, Rhode Island she graduated from Rogers High School in 1981, then attended Emerson College for two years before studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Going appeared in soap opera roles in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. Throughout the majority of the 1990s and 2000s, she starred in... MORE

Joanna C. Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress. Born in Washington, D.C., she is the oldest of six children of Lorraine M. (née Calise), a police dispatcher, and John Burke Going, a state assemblyman and lawyer. Raised in Newport, Rhode Island she graduated from Rogers High School in 1981, then attended Emerson College for two years before studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Going appeared in soap opera roles in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. Throughout the majority of the 1990s and 2000s, she starred in made-for-television movies, feature films and television series, including a new version of Dark Shadows. She appeared in the 1997 independent film The Keys to Tulsa opposite Eric Stoltz, playing a stripper named Cherry and performing a nude dance routine. Her biggest role may be in the 1998 film version of Phantoms. She also appeared opposite Sean Penn in the 2010 film The Tree of Life, her first role in a major motion picture since 2003's Runaway Jury. Going married actor Dylan Walsh on October 10, 2004. The couple have a daughter, Stella Haven Walsh (born November 22, 2003). On December 15, 2010 Walsh LESS