Joan Didion

WriterActor Dec 5 (died age 87) Sacramento, California, USA 1952–2020 (68 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Biography

Joan Didion was an American writer. In the late 1960s, Didion's reportage brought Californian subcultures to wider attention. Her political writing often concentrated on the subtext of rhetoric.

Known For

Film

A Star Is Born

Original Film Writer

Film

The Panic in Needle Park

Screenplay

Film

Up Close & Personal

Screenplay

Film

A Star Is Born

Screenplay

Film

True Confessions

Screenplay

Film

The Last Thing He Wanted

Novel

Film

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Self

Film

The 50 Year Argument

Herself

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (6)

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

as Self

Out of My Head

The 50 Year Argument

as Herself

Dominick Dunne: After the Party

2008

as Self

7.5

Celebrity: Dominick Dunne — A Journalist in the Age of Celebrity

2008

as Self

Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.

1995

as self

7.0

Television (1)

Today

1952

as Self

5.6

Crew (10)

Movies (10)

The Last Thing He Wanted

Novel

A Star Is Born

Original Film Writer

Up Close & Personal

Screenplay

Broken Trust

Writer

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Writer

True Confessions

Screenplay

A Star Is Born

Screenplay

Play It as It Lays

Novel

Play It as It Lays

Screenplay

The Panic in Needle Park

1971

Screenplay

6.8