Overview

• Joanna Cassidy marked her 80th birthday on Aug. 2 with a Malibu beach photoshoot captured exclusively for People magazine.
• She said she feels “no different than when I was 30,” emphasizing a youthful outlook that guides her daily fitness and philanthropic efforts.
• Cassidy and Alan Hamel first met on his 1970s Canadian talk show and went public as a couple earlier this summer after reconnecting “miraculously” following decades apart.
• Hamel, widowed since Suzanne Somers’s 2023 death, praises Cassidy’s generosity and zest for life and calls their reunion “a miracle.”
• At 80, Cassidy is eyeing her next adventure role and credits intense gym training and her physical condition as proof there’s room for a senior female action hero.