# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-van-ark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:11:50.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-van-ark"
name: "Joan Van Ark"
slug: "joan-van-ark"
description: "Joan Martha Van Ark is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives."
tagline: "American actress (born 1943)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.joanvanark.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump