Trivia
- Joanne was nominated for 1995 and 2006, after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1985. In 1985, she was nominated for "Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries" for Breathing Lessons. In 2006, she was nominated in the same category for Empire Falls.
- Joanne was not present at the 1990 Academy Awards ceremony where she was nominated for an Academy Award. Kathy Bates won the award for the film MIsery.
- Joanne is on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Defense Information.
- In 1992, she received the Kennedy Center Honor alongside her husband, Paul Newman.
- Joanne majored in drama when she attended Louisiana State University.
- Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6801 Hollywood Blvd.
- Joanne won many beauty contests as a teenager.
- Joanne once revealed her two favorite actors of all time to be Bette Davis and Sir Laurence Olivier.
- Joanne played the mother to real-life daughter Nell Potts in 1972 film The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
- Joanne was once briefly engaged to novelist, essayist and screenwriter Gore Vidal before she decided to break off the engagement and pledge herself to eventual husband Paul Newman.
- Joanne is typically known for her portrayal of mentally or emotionally disturbed women.
- In 1990, she finally graduated Sarah Lawrence University alongside her youngest daughter, Clea Newman.
- On January 29th 1958, Joanne married fellow actor Paul Newman.
- In 1994, Joanne earned an Emmy nomination for her work in the telefilm Breathing Lessons.
- Joanne currently serves as the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse which is near her home in Connecticut.
- Joanne wore a hand-made dress that cost about $100 dollars to the 1957 Oscar ceremony in which she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve.
- In 1947, Joanne graduated from Greenville Senior High School in Greenville, South Carolina.
- Joanne lists her favorite movies as 1939's Gone with the Wind and Wuthering Heights, 1940's The Philadelphia Story and the 1938 film Jezebel.
- Joanne once lived next door to her idol, Bette Davis.
- Two of Joanne's favorite activities are ballet and horse-back riding.
