{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Person",
  "@id": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/1207736/joan-halifax",
  "name": "Joan Halifax",
  "url": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/person/1207736/joan-halifax",
  "knownForDepartment": "Acting",
  "description": "Joan Jiko Halifax is an American Zen Buddhist teacher, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community which she founded in 1990.",
  "birthDate": "1942-07-30",
  "birthPlace": "Hanover, New Hampshire, USA",
  "alternateName": [
    "Roshi Joan Halifax",
    "Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD"
  ],
  "sameAs": [
    "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1967890"
  ],
  "lastVerified": "4 May 2026",
  "filmography": [
    {
      "mediaType": "movie",
      "tmdbId": 347834,
      "title": "The Occult Experience",
      "year": "1985",
      "role": "as Self - Anthropologist",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 6.75,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oH4lXvEYnGug7cj7LfVGjSP7gzi.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/347834/the-occult-experience-1985"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "movie",
      "tmdbId": 222385,
      "title": "Wake Up",
      "year": "2010",
      "role": "Cast",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 6.4,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8YXFtVqf9dWkpkNC0dirL6GEXEi.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/222385/wake-up-2010"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "movie",
      "tmdbId": 457568,
      "title": "Crazywise",
      "year": "2017",
      "role": "as Self – Buddhist Teacher, Zen Priest, Author, Anthropologist",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 6,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ruXSJygLoSPol0JSXJzIqU1aQj8.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/457568/crazywise-2017"
    },
    {
      "mediaType": "movie",
      "tmdbId": 1034084,
      "title": "Aside From That",
      "year": null,
      "role": "as Self",
      "roleKind": "cast",
      "voteAverage": 8,
      "posterUrl": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/bjsGWSKlaWLAqkm0xWn4igiiatG.jpg",
      "screenSearchUrl": "https://www.screensearch.co.uk/watch/movie/1034084/aside-from-that"
    }
  ]
}