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name: "Joan Baez"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joan-baez"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 January 1941"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:47:14.342461+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Joan Baez

Actor. Born 9 January 1941 in Staten Island, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 January 1941, Staten Island, New York, USA
- **Also known as:** Joan Chandos Baez
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131725, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1490

## Biography

Joan Baez (born Joan Chandos Baez, 9 January 1941) is an American folk singer, songwriter and activist. She appears as herself in numerous documentary films and television programmes, including *Woodstock* (1970), *Don't Look Back* (1967), *The Muppet Show* (1976), *Live Aid* (1985) and *No Direction Home: Bob Dylan* (2005).

Baez is also credited in *Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese* (2019) and *Ennio* (2022). Her film and television work consists primarily of performances and archive appearances as herself.

*Sources: imdb.com, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Woodstock* (1970), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/woodstock.md)

## Also known for

- *Ennio* (2022), Self
- *The Muppet Show* (1976), Self - Special Guest Star
- *Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back* (1967), Self
- *Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live* (2015), Self - Special Guest
- *Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese* (2019), The Balladeer
- *No Direction Home: Bob Dylan* (2005), Self
- *Fame* (1982), Joan Baez
- *Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley* (2024), Self (archive footage)

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