Joyce Carey
| Joyce Carey | |
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Carey as Myrtle in Brief Encounter, 1945
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| Born |
Joyce Lilian Lawrence 30 March 1898 Kensington, London, England |
| Died | 28 February 1993 (aged 94) Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1916–1988 |
| Parent(s) |
Gerald Lawrence Lilian Braithwaite |
Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her nineties. Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of Shakespearean roles.
Joyce Carey was born Joyce Lilian Lawrence, the daughter of the actor Gerald Lawrence, a handsome matinée idol who had been a juvenile in Henry Irving's Shakespeare company, and his wife, the actress Lilian Braithwaite, a major West End star. Carey was educated at the Florence Etlinger Dramatic School.
Carey made her stage debut in October 1916, aged 18, as Princess Katherine in an all-female production of Henry V. She joined Sir George Alexander's company at the St James's Theatre playing Jacqueline, a French countess, in The Aristocrat. After a succession of West End roles in light comedy, Carey took on further Shakespearean parts, appearing at Stratford-upon-Avon as Anne Page, Perdita, Titania, Miranda and Juliet. Over the next few years she added Hermia, Celia and Olivia to her Shakespearean repertoire, in between regular appearance in West End comedies.
Her first appearance in a Noël Coward play was as Sarah Hurst in Easy Virtue in New York in 1926. For most of the following seven years, her career was chiefly in New York, following a great success in The Road to Rome in 1927. In 1934 she wrote (pseudonymously), and acted a supporting role in, a comedy, Sweet Aloes, which ran in London for more than a year. In 1936 she resumed her connection with Coward, playing a series of character roles in his cycle of short plays, Tonight at 8:30 in London and New York.
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