MOST Magazine Celebrity OCT'15 ISSUE NO.1 | Page 31

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oanna Going has a long list of acting credits,
just take a peek at her IMDB page and you’re
sure to recognize a favorite. A true veteran
of the film industry, Joanna started in soaps,
and since then has been in dozens of movies,
television roles and a number of theater
performances. Here are just a few of the acting
credits under her belt that you may recognize:
Love & Mercy, Mad Men, Dark Shadows,
and Runaway Jury.
Now it seems that Joanna has finally found
her role in television, and it’s far away from
the networks. Her recent work on projects
through Netflix and DirecTV have provided
her with more freedom in the roles that
she plays. Joanna describes a trust in the
showrunner, in the material, and the actors
that embody all of the characters they play.
Joanna explains that “The actors, crew and

producers commit out of love of the material.”

Since many of these shows, off the traditional
platforms are not dependent on advertising
sales as revenue, they are afforded the freedom
to take risks. With groundbreaking shows
like House of Cards, Kingdom and so many
others breaking the traditional molds of
television expectations, networks are able
to re-adjust there longstanding formulas.
Joanna cites Empire as a recent example,
probably because she just spent ten hours
straight binge-watching the entire first season.
“Five years ago Empire wouldn’t have even
been on network television,” she says; Empire
one of the most watched TV series of 2015!

Eventually like every actor or actress, Joanna grows tired
of the characters she plays, most lacking the complexity
and dimension she seeks. It took coming back to her career,
after pressing pause for her daughter’s childhood,
for Joanna to find the roles she was meant to be playing.

“It took getting older to get beyond that in my own head.
When I had my daughter I took a step away from the
business and I had to come back when I was pushing 50.”