Jo Harvey Allen is an American writer, actress, and artist best known for The Homesman (2014), The Client (1994), and In the Valley of Elah (2007).
She is married to composer Terry Allen and they have two children.
Filmography
- 1986: True Stories as The Lying Woman
- 1988: Tapeheads as Madame Olga
- 1988: Checking Out as Barbara
- 1989: Cold Sassy Tree as Effie Belle Tate
- 1991: Fried Green Tomatoes as Women's Awareness Teacher
- 1994: Floundering as Mom (also writer)
- 1994: The Client as Claudette
- 1996: The Lazarus Man as Unknown
- 1998: Scattering Dad as Reva
- 1998: Floating Away as Dahlia
- 1999: The Outfitters as Vonda
- 2000: All the Pretty Horses as Judge's Wife
- 2002: Waking Up In Reno as Waitress at Big Texan
- 2003: Screen Door Jesus as Lorraine Herbert
- 2003: Secondhand Lions as Woman at Hospital
- 2005: The Wendell Baker Story as Wanda King
- 2007: In the Valley of Elah as Jo Anne
- 2014: The Homesman as Mrs. Polhemus
- 2015: The Other Kind as Momma
Poetry:
- Cheek to Cheek
- The Beautiful Waitress
- 100 Artists See Satan
- 100 Artists See God
