Biography
Joan Severance is an American actress and former fashion model. Born Joan Marie Severance on 23 December 1958 in Houston, Texas, she began modelling in the 1970s after being scouted by John Casablancas of Elite Model Management and worked in Paris and New York before moving into acting in the mid-1980s.
Her early screen roles included an uncredited part in Lethal Weapon (1987) and appearances in See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and No Holds Barred (1989). She played Rachel Varney in Bird on a Wire (1990) and later took leading roles in Black Scorpion (1995) and its sequel, as well as a regular part in the television series Love Boat: The Next Wave (1998–1999). She has also appeared in episodes of Wiseguy, CSI: Miami, One Tree Hill and American Horror Story.
