- Joanna was a bikini model for Rip Curl surf renowned for her "amazonian model body shape.".
- She was schooled at one of Britain's top all girls convent schools, La Sagesse, where she was awarded an academic scholarship. She was awarded prizes each year for top attainment in science and literature.
- She said the following about indie work "I'm not scared of indie work - its as real as you can go. You don't do it if you need to look glamorous, and the journey has risk. You do it because you learn so much around you - hands on - you have maximum freedom for ideas and suggesting things on set, it's the best learning experience. It's a very different acting skill playing main lead, you drive and carry each scene, women very rarely get these roles to experience in Hollywood, yet it's where I am strongest, and want to be experiencing and preparing.".
- She has received ex-military on set coaching in gun handling and combat tactics, such as squad clearance and close protection tactics.
- Joanna has posed as a modern day Ophelia and spent the day drowning to recreate how Elizabeth Siddal posed for Millias' painting.
- Joanna was photographed and the prints exhibited in galleries in USA - opening in Chicago at The Catherine Elderman Gallery - in a collective of "The Most Beautiful Look Book".
- In an interview Joanna stated she was often top of her class at school and would baffle her professors because she could pass the math exams without turning up to the classes.
- Joanna has certificates to grade 5 in ballet and piano from The Royal Academy in Britain.
- As a model she has been the inspiration for songs and paintings, album covers, and lyrics, and is known as a muse to many artists, musicians and photographers.
- She is known in her work for her portrayal of vulnerability and her psychological realism.
- She has been described as having a raw, intuitive talent, rich in intensity.
- She is trained to handle snakes and guns.
- She deals with very challenging, dark roles from post traumatic stress to war zone conflict.
- Before acting she took a job yacht brokering and selling high performance cars in South of France. She gave up the lifestyle to be an artist.
- She lived in the South of France in Villefranche-sur-Mer, in a converted monastery hidden in the cliffs, where they filmed the exterior shots of "An Affair to Remember" starring Cary Grant in 1957.
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