Birthday: August 2, 1944

Birth Place: Haddonfield, New Jersey

Birth Name: Joanna Virginia Caskey

Joanna Cassidy became certified in scuba diving for the 1979 ABC-TV series 240-Robert in which she played helicopter pilot Deputy Morgan Wainright.

Joanna Cassidy is 5'-8" tall.

In high school, Joanna Cassidy played field hockey, basketball and baseball.

During the filming of the "240-Robert" tv series in 1979, Chuck Tamburro, the Helicopter Stunt Pilot, gave flying lessons to Joanna Cassidy so she could fly the helicopter N506WW.
During the filming of the "240-Robert" tv series in 1979, Joanna Cassidy bought a Smith and Wesson 45 and took some shooting lessons from Chuck Tamburro, the Helicopter Stunt Man Pilot/Marksman.

Joanna Cassidy has a boisterous laugh and a well-earned reputation as a practical joker. One day, when "240-Robert" was filming on-location at a maternity hospital for unwed mothers, the script called for Cassidy to emerge briskly from an elevator and stride down the hall. The lights and camera were ready, the elevator doors opened, and out she stepped with a tremendous pillow tucked under her deputy's shirt. Shooting had to be stopped as crew and cast regained their composure. On another occasion, the chopper was hovering outside the top floor of a Los Angeles hotel trying to locate the window where a rescue was to be staged. Suddenly, a voice came over the radio commanding the director to wave his underwear out the window so Cassidy and the pilot would know where he was. The crew broke up, and when a booming laugh followed, they knew it was Cassidy.

Joanna Cassidy entered Syracuse University in New York, but after one year as an art student, she quit to marry a young doctor. In the impetuous Cassidy tradition, she did not pick an easy course to marriage. Cassidy said, "He'd been dating my art teacher. I broke them up - and my art teacher flunked me." A doctor's life was not the happily-ever-after fantasy she had dreamed up and she and her husband were divorced in San Francisco seven years later.

In 1979, on the set of "240-Robert," Joanna Cassidy used her moring off to cook a Mexican meal for the crew of 60 people. For her birthday she hired a Rolls-Royce to deliver champagne on ice to the set for everyone to share.

For pets, Joanna Cassidy has had a cat, a puppy and several boa constrictors.

Hotel Malibu (1994) - Ellie Mayfield

Dudley (1993) - Laraine Bristol

Code Name: Foxfire (1985) - Elizabeth "Foxfire" Towne

Buffalo Bill (1983) - Joanna "Jo-Jo" White

The Family Tree (1983) - Elizabeth Nichols

240-Robert (1979) - Deputy Morgan Wainwright

The Roller Girls (1978) - Selma 'Books' Cassidy

Star Trek: Enterprise - T'Les - Home (2004)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Untitled (2004)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - The Bomb Shelter (2004)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - That's My Dog (2004)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Can I Come Up Now? (2004)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Death Works Overtime (2003)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - The Opening (2003)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Timing & Space (2003)

Everwood - Evelyn - The Price of Fame (2003)

Hidden Hills - Carol - The Visit (2003)

Less Than Perfect - Norma Craft - Claud's Got a Secret (2003)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - I'll Take You (2002)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - It's The Most Wonderful... (2002)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Back To The Garden (2002)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - Driving Mr. Mossback (2002)

The District - Teddy Reed - The Greenhouse Effect (2002)

The District - Teddy Reed - Night Shift (a.k.a. Back Fire) (2001)

The District - Teddy Reed - Lost and Found (2001)

Philly - Marion Marshall - Pilot (2001)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - The New Person (2001)

Six Feet Under - Margaret Chenowith - An Open Book (2001)

Hollywood Off Ramp - Claire - In Her Footsteps (2000)

Diagnosis Murder - Dr. Wesley - Out of the Past (1) (2000)

Diagnosis Murder - Dr. Wesley - Out of the Past (2) (2000)

D.C. - Lewis's boss - Justice (2000)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - Teacher's Pet (2000)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - Santa Claude (1999)

Twice in a Lifetime - Meg McCleary - The Quality of Mercy (1999)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - The Killer Within (1999)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - The Flame (1999)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - Murder at Midterm (1999)

Diagnosis Murder - Madison Wesley - Sleeping Murder (1999)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Little Big Head Man (1998)

The Hunger - Grace Wallace - The Other Woman (1998)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Apokolips...Now!, Part II (1998)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Apokolips...Now! (1998)

Melrose Place - Kate Reilly - The Light at the End of the Tumble (1997)

Melrose Place - Kate Reilly - Desperately Seeking Samantha (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Prototype (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Bizarro's World (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - The Hand of Fate (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Monkey Fun (1997)

Melrose Place - Kate Reilly - Brand New Day (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Two's a Crowd (1997)

Superman - Maggie Sawyer - Tools of the Trade (1997)

Ned and Stacey - Lucy Binder - Here's to You, Mrs. Binder (1995)

The Rockford Files - Halley 'Kit' Kittridge - I Still Love L.A. (1994)

L.A. Law - Judge Carolyn Walker - Whistle Stop (1994)

Murder, She Wrote - Willie Greenwood - Roadkill (1994)

L.A. Law - Judge Carolyn Walker - He Ain't Guilty, He's My Brother (1994)

Burke's Law (1994) - Liz Charles - Who Killed the Beauty Queen? (1994)

L.A. Law - Judge Carolyn Walker - Eli's Gumming (1993)

The Ray Bradbury Theatre - Lavinia - The Lonely One (1992)

Northern Exposure - Solvang Planey - Three Amigos (1992)

Fantasy Island - Christine Donovan - Nurses Night Out (1983)

Falcon Crest - Katherine Demery - The Namesake (1982)

Falcon Crest - Katherine Demery - Home Away From Home (1982)

Falcon Crest - Katherine Demery - The Expose (1982)

Falcon Crest - Katherine Demery - Murder One (1982)

Lou Grant - Barbara Costigan - Charlie (1982)

Strike Force - Eve Murphy - Turnabout (1982)

The Love Boat - Lisa - I Don't Play Anymore; Gopher's Roommate; Crazy for You (1982)

Hart to Hart - Belle - Slow Boat to Murder (1981)

Charlie's Angels - Stacy Parrish - Hula Angels (1981)

Dallas - Sally Bullock - The Fourth Son (1980)

Dallas - Sally Bullock - The Venezuelan Connection (1980)

Insight - Lucy - Resurrection (1980)

Battle of the Network Stars - ABC Team - Special #7 (1979)

The Love Boat - Joan Horner - Gopher's Greatest Hits/The Vacation/One Rose a Day (1979)

Starsky & Hutch - Monique Travers - The Avenger (1978)

Taxi - Beverly - High School Reunion (1978)

McCoy - - New Dollar Day (1976)

Good Morning, Miami - Gavin's Mother - The Wait Problem (0)

Shields & Yarnell -

Superman - Maggie Sawyer

Falcon Crest - Katherine Demery - Choices (1982)

Mission: Impossible - Stewardess - The Western (1973)

Mission: Impossible - Stewardess - Movie (1972)

Mission: Impossible - Model - Two Thousand (1972)

The Virgin of Juarez (2005) - Unknown

Martha, Inc. (2003) - Caroline Kass

Ghosts of Mars (2001) - Whitlock

The Outfit (1999) - Rita

Circle of Deceit (1998) - Elaine Greer

Dangerous Beauty (1998) - Laura Venier

Executive Power (1997) - Elaine Fields

Barbarians at the Gate (1993) - Linda Robinson

All-American Murder (1992) - Erica Darby

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) - Rose Lindsey

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - Dolores

Blade Runner (1982) - Zhora (replicant)

Stay Hungry (1976) - Zoe

The Laughing Policeman (1973) - Monica, Beth's Roomate

Anderson's Cross - Mrs. McCarthy

Bank Shot - Eleonora

Wheels of Terror - Laura