Jo Ann Harris
Jo Ann Harris is an actor, born 1949.
A career that started in 1967 and stayed busy for over a decade, without ever landing the part that fixes a name in place. The closest was The Beguiled, where Harris played Carol, the seventeen-year-old who seduces Clint Eastwood's character.
The rest of the 1970s reads as a tour of the decade's formats: Chrissy in the paranoid thriller The Parallax View, Gloria Bartley in the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man, Lil in Kate McShane, a 1940s singer in Xanadu. Her filmography also lists Maryjane, The Gay Deceivers, The Sporting Club, Act of Vengeance, Cruise into Terror and Deadly Games, none of which are among the credits gathered here.
Television took the later years, including the 1984 series The Duck Factory and voice work on The Simpsons, where a single listing credits her with a Minnesota girl, a Maria Dominguez and a paper boy. It is a working actor's record rather than a star's, and the 1970s ran on people like her.
Movies (3)
TV (4)
Where to start with Jo Ann Harris
Two films carry this page. The Beguiled is the one to watch first, and the part asks for seduction and calculation at once without ever tipping into camp. The Parallax View is the better film overall, though her role in it is small: watch it for the paranoia and treat her scenes as a bonus.
Rich Man, Poor Man is the format piece, a 1970s miniseries at full length, and it rewards you only if that decade's television already appeals. Xanadu uses her as a period singer and is a curiosity at best. The Duck Factory and Kate McShane are for people mapping American television rather than looking for something to watch tonight.