Joy Coghill
| Joy Coghill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 13, 1926 Findlater, Saskatchewan |
| Died | January 20, 2017 (aged 90) Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Occupation | Actress, director, writer |
Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne, CM, (May 13, 1926 – January 20, 2017) was a Canadian actress, director, and writer.
She and Myra Benson founded Canada's first professional touring children's theatre, Holiday Theatre in 1953. In 1994, Coghill founded Western Gold, a theatre company for senior professional actors in Vancouver. She held honorary degrees from SFU and UBC. She was married to Jack Thorne from 1955 until her death in 2017.
Her best-known work is Song of This Place, a play about the Canadian artist Emily Carr. In addition to her writing, Coghill has made guest appearances on Da Vinci's Inquest as Portia Da Vinci and as the dying human host Saroosh/Selmak on the Stargate SG-1 episode "The Tok'ra, Part 1 & 2".
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