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My Take
What strikes me about Joanna Going is how she built a quietly durable career by being the actor directors trust with the serious, grounded roles. I first really noticed her opposite Kevin Costner in Wyatt Earp, but her later runs on Mad Men, House of Cards and Kingdom show a performer who keeps getting cast in prestige work without ever chasing the spotlight. The Emerson College training reads in her control. She's the kind of dependable craftsperson I find genuinely underrated, the sort whose name you half-remember until you see the face and immediately think, oh, her, she's always good.
Overview
Joanna Catherine Going (born July 22, 1963) is an American actress known for the television series Kingdom, House of Cards, Mad Men and the movie Wyatt Earp.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joanna Going
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョアンナ・ゴーイング
- Reading
- じょあんな・ごーいんぐ
- Born
- July 22, 1963 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Rabbit
- Origin
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Rogers High School
- University
- Emerson College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.