---
name: "Joan Severance"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joan-severance"
fi1m_id: "joan-severance"
imdb_id: "nm0000220"
tmdb_id: 18891
wikidata_id: "Q260146"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 December 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 55
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T21:26:02.860999+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."
---

# Joan Severance

## Identity

Joan Severance

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joan-severance
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joan-severance
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000220
- **TMDB ID:** 18891
- **Wikidata ID:** Q260146
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Severance, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260146, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000220/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18891

Actor. Born 23 December 1958 in Houston, Texas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 December 1958, Houston, Texas, USA
- **Active:** 1990–2003
- **Also known as:** Joan Marie Severance
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 55, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 44 (1), 2000s 66 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Severance, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260146, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000220/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18891

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Bird on a Wire*](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md) (44)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *One Tree Hill* (2003), Fi1m 66, as Cynthia Price — [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)
- *Bird on a Wire* (1990), Fi1m 44, as Rachel Varney — [page](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Lethal Weapon* (1987), Fi1m 80, as Girl in Black Playsuit (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/lethal-weapon.md)

## Complete filmography (49)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bicycle* (2018), as Mary
- *Accidentally Engaged* (2016), as Sandy Byers
- *Masters of Sex* (2013), series, as Leona — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-sex.md)
- *Sharkproof* (2012), as Connie
- *American Horror Story* (2011), series, as Marian
- *NCIS: Los Angeles* (2009), series, as Mary Reynolds
- *Born* (2007), as Dr. Sammael
- *Wicked Wicked Games* (2006), series, as Anna Whitman
- *Sex and Consequences* (2006), as Lisa Wayne
- *Taylor* (2005), as Leigh
- *One Tree Hill* (2003), series, as Cynthia Price — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)
- *Mystery Woman* (2003), as Mary Stenning
- *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Sophie Townsend
- *She Spies* (2002), series, as Lauren Drake
- *Cause Of Death* (2001), as Angela Carter
- *The Last Seduction II* (1999), as Bridget Gregory
- *Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story* (1998), as Paley
- *Matter of Trust* (1998), as Theresa Marsh · Co-Producer
- *Love Boat: The Next Wave* (1998), series, as Camille Hunter
- *In Dark Places* (1997), as Chapelle
- *Black Scorpion II: Aftershock* (1997), as Darcy Walker / Black Scorpion · Producer
- *Profiler* (1996), series, as Christine Logan
- *Profile for Murder* (1996), as Dr. Hanna Carras
- *Frequent Flyer* (1996), as Alison Rawlings
- *Hard Evidence* (1995), as Madelyn Turner
- *Black Scorpion* (1995), as Darcy Walker / Black Scorpion
- *Lake Consequence* (1995), as Irene
- *Dangerous Indiscretion* (1995), as Caroline Everett
- *Payback* (1995), as Rose Gullerman
- *Criminal Passion* (1994), as Melanie Hudson
- *Red Shoe Diaries 2: Double Dare* (1993), as The Woman (archive footage)
- *Red Shoe Diaries* (1992), series, as The Woman
- *Almost Pregnant* (1992), as Maureen Mallory
- *Illicit Behavior* (1992), as Melissa Yarnell
- *Write to Kill* (1991), as Belle Washburn
- *Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind* (1991), as Susan Davis
- *The Runestone* (1991), as Marla Stewart
- *Good Sports* (1991), series, as Randi
- *Bird on a Wire* (1990), as Rachel Varney — Fi1m 44, [page](https://film.one/film/bird-on-a-wire.md)
- *Worth Winning* (1989), as Lizbette
- *Tales from the Crypt* (1989), series, as Rona
- *No Holds Barred* (1989), as Samantha Moore
- *See No Evil, Hear No Evil* (1989), as Eve
- *Murphy's Law* (1988), series, Actor
- *Wiseguy* (1987), series, as Susan Profitt
- *Lethal Weapon* (1987), as Girl in Black Playsuit (uncredited) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/lethal-weapon.md)
- *L.A. Law* (1986), series, as Lauren Chase
- *The Hitchhiker* (1983), series, as Jane Ambergris / Holly May Stillman
- *A Movie Star's Daughter* (1979), as Actress Exiting Limo

## Gallery

- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-b6a84764c537.png) Joan Severance — Tiplup9, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Joan_Severance.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-ef8b375158f9.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-4a9a1220e1d0.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-05de63ff84b1.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-2e953b2bd7bd.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-10f99088f1f5.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Severance](https://film.one/media/person/454169/gallery-90e71a43f6ed.jpg) Joan Severance — Image via TMDB

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