Joanna Going

About Joanna Going

Going, the oldest of six children, was born in 1963 in Washington, D.C. to the late John Burke Going and Lorraine M. (a police dispatcher). She was raised in Newport, Rhode Island and graduated from Rogers High School in 1981. Going then attended Emerson College for two years, before studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Going's childhood home in Newport, the Isaac Bell House, a glorious 1883 McKim, Mead and White Shingle Style building on famous Bellevue Avenue, is now owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County and is open as a museum. It is a designated National Historic Landmark. Her brother Andrew is the father of Kristin Hersh's eldest child, Dylan Hersh Going.

Going appeared in soap opera roles in the late 1980s, most notably as Lisa Grady on Another World from 1987 to 1989. Throughout the majority of the 1990s and 2000s, she starred in made-for-television movies, feature films and television series, including a new version of Dark Shadows. Her biggest role may be in the 1998 film version of Phantoms.