Joan Benedict Steiger

Joan Benedict Steiger was born on Jul 21, 1927 in USA. Joan Benedict Steiger's big-screen debut came with The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington directed by William A. Levey in 1977.

Joan Benedict Steiger was born in Brooklyn, New York and became a performer at an early age studying ballet & tap dancing at seven. Her first recital was at the famous Brooklyn Academy of Music. Her mother sent her abroad to Rome, where she became a young student at the Rome Opera Ballet School, and, subsequently, lived in Paris. Living in these two countries gave Joan a wonderful cultural opportunity and she became fluent in Italian and French.