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Valene Val Ewing (née Clements; formerly Ewing Gibson and Waleska) portrayed by Joan Van Ark is a fictional character in the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing a spin-off from the long-running series Dallas in which she also appeared. The character originated in 1978 on Dallas as the mother of Lucy Ewing and ex-wife of Gary Ewing (the second son of oil baron Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing).