Nick Step(Nick Stepowyj) · CC BY 2.0

Joan Copeland built a decades-long stage career after becoming one of the first members admitted to the newly formed Actors Studio in the 1940s, later earning acclaim in the 1981 play The American Clock and the 1977 Broadway revival of Pal Joey. Sister of playwright Arthur Miller, she also worked steadily in television, including recurring soap-opera roles, and lent her voice to Brother Bear.