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name: "Jo Harvey Allen"
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born: "1 January 1945"
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# Jo Harvey Allen

Actor. Born 1 January 1945 in Lubbock.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1945, Lubbock

## Biography

Jo Harvey Allen is an American actress, writer and artist. Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1945, she hosted the radio show Rawhide & Roses on KPPC-FM in the 1960s and was among the first performance artists working in alternative spaces during the 1970s.

She has appeared in films including *True Stories* (1986), *Fried Green Tomatoes* (1991) as the Woman's Awareness Teacher, *The Client* (1994), *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), *The Homesman* (2014) and *Killers of the Flower Moon* (2023) as Aunt Annie. Allen has also written and performed one-woman plays that have toured extensively in the United States and Europe.

She is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Art Matters fellowships and was inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame in 2015.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fried Green Tomatoes* (1991), Fi1m 75, as Woman's Awareness Teacher — [page](https://film.one/film/fried-green-tomatoes.md)

## Also known for

- *The Client* (1994), Claudette
- *In the Valley of Elah* (2007), Jo Anne
- *The Homesman* (2014), Mrs. Polhemus
- *Secondhand Lions* (2003), Woman in Hospital
- *True Stories* (1986), The Lying Woman
- *Waking Up in Reno* (2002), Waitress at Big Texan
- *The Wendell Baker Story* (2005), Wanda King
- *Tapeheads* (1988), Madame Olga

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