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Jo Harvey Allen is an American writer, actress, and artist. Education. Allen was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas, to a dress shop manager mother and a carpenter father.
Jo Harvey Allen is a versatile and prolific artist who has appeared in films such as True Stories, Fried Green Tomatoes, and The Homesman. She is also a playwright, poet, radio host, and the wife of singer-songwriter Terry Allen.
- Actress, Writer
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Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has appeared in numerous films including co-starring roles in David Byrne's cult classic True Stories (1986), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, dir. John Avnet), and The Client (1994, dir. Joel Schumacher).
Jo Harvey Allen, actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio, is best known for her numerous film roles and critically acclaimed one-woman shows; called “A Storyteller in the Best Texas Tradition” by the LA Weekly, “Funny, Amazing, Profound…a knockout performer and writer who vanishes into her luminous material!” by LA ...
A review of Jo Harvey's works for stage and film coupled with the actress and writer's comments on her early experiences and how her work has evolved.
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- Texas Tech University Outreach and Engagement
Jo Harvey Allen is an actor who has appeared in films such as Fried Green Tomatoes, The Client, and The Homesman. TMDB provides her biography, filmography, and media links.
Jo Harvey Allen is an actress, playwright, poet, and pioneer of women in radio. She has starred in films, one-woman shows, and Terry Allen's radio and theater pieces, and has exhibited her artworks in various venues.
