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Joan Rivers

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Biography

Recent Role:
Guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Gender:
Female
Born:
6-8-1933
Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birth Name:
Joan Alexandra Molinsky
Joan is the younger of two daughters of Russian immigrants Beatrice and Meyer Molinsky.

Joan got into acting from an early age and continued throughout college; appearing in almost every college production. After graduating and at a loss for what to do Joan took a job as a buyer for a department store. Whilst there she married the Boss's son a marriage which only lasted 6 months.

After this and determined to fulfill her dream Joan started making the rounds in New York going through the normal motions of sleazy agents, dirty clubs and hostile audiences. It wasn't



More until 1965 when her dreams came true with a booking on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. After this Joan met and married her second husband and had a daughter, Melissa.

For Joan 1968 through 1972 was when she started making it with appearances on both television and the big screen.
In 1983 Joan thought she was at the top of the world, she had book deals, permanent guest star positions on television, sold out concerts and comedy albums. After hitting rock bottom in her personal life Joan picked herself back up and in 1989 she was back on the screens and the stage.

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    Joan is outragous! As blunt as a sledgehammer and a mouth that makes microphones redundant. Joan has that skill of being able to produced a fun sound-bite everytime she opens her mouth, her age might be something she hides with surgery, but her age shows with the wisdom in her words - even if she does sound like a crude teenage boy!

    Its obvious Joan has been around just about everything! From the joyously fabulous to the completly tragic. Shes been up there at the top but shes also got her hands dirty. It all adds up to make a truly wise and insightful women who not only intrigues you by sharing many aspects of her life with you, But makes you laugh so darn much! This women turns tragedy into comedy, - and were not talking about the surgery OK!

    Joan makes me laugh so much. I enjoy her no rubbish approach, her not being scared to offened, so not missing out the middle finger she sticks up PC!

    She's makes an excellent comic and should seriouly release more Stand-up on DVD! The one she has out now is SO worth watching. I always keep an eye out for her on other shows such as 8 out of 10 cats and Parkinson, and Im seriously hoping Alan Carr nabs her for the Friday Night Project!

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    Great actress, and very underrated. I really like the way she potrays and the way she does her thing, I really like the way she acts and I enjoyed most of her works. Her style is very different, and I must say that she is very underrated, though she is so cool.

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