Kathryn Joosten
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Kathryn Joosten at the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony
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| Born |
Kathryn Rausch December 20, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 2, 2012 (aged 72) Westlake Village, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1973–2012 |
| Known for |
Karen McCluskey, Dolores Landingham |
| Television |
Desperate Housewives, The West Wing |
| Children | Jonathan Joosten and Timothy Joosten |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Awards (2005, 2008) |
Kathryn Joosten (December 20, 1939 – June 2, 2012) was an American television actress. Her best known roles include Dolores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008.
Joosten was born Kathryn Rausch in Chicago, Illinois to Dutch-German parents. Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, living in nearby Lake Forest, Illinois, where she married a psychiatrist and raised two sons. Following her 1980 divorce, she began acting in community theater in 1982, at age 42.
In 1992, she was hired as a street performer working for Disney World in Orlando, Florida. In 1995, she moved to Hollywood, where she took guest roles in television series such as Roseanne, Home Improvement, Picket Fences, Murphy Brown, ER, Seinfeld, Frasier, Just Shoot Me!, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dharma & Greg, Las Vegas and The Drew Carey Show. In a 1997 episode of Frasier, "Roz's Turn", Joosten appeared as Vera, the mother and personal secretary of Frasier's conniving agent, Bebe Glazer, played by Harriet Sansom Harris. The pair would later be reunited to play opposite neighbors in Desperate Housewives.
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