Joan Morgan (1 February 1905 – 22 July 2004) was an English film actress, screenwriter and novelist.

[1][2] Born in Forest Hill, London, she was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan and his wife, Evelyn.

[3] She became a leading British star of the 1920s, after appearing in a number of films directed by her father.

Her acting career was effectively ended by the arrival of sound film in 1929 and she switched to writing, working on a number of screenplays over the following decade.

She wrote novels under her own name and through using the pen-names Iris North and Joan Wentworth Wood.