Kathryn Joosten was an actress who portrayed Genevieve Holt on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series.
Career[]
Joosten's 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.
Joosten took guest roles in such television series 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 1999, Joosten took the role of Mrs. Landingham, personal secretary to President Josiah Bartlet, in two seasons of The West Wing.
Since 2001, she appeared in such shows as Scrubs, My Name is Earl, Spin City, The X-Files, Judging Amy, Monk, Charmed, Will & Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, Grey's Anatomy, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Reba, So Little Time, Gilmore Girls, The Closer, and a recurring role as one of the incarnations of God on the TV series Joan of Arcadia. In 2005, Joosten appeared in the film Wedding Crashers.
Joosten had a recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Karen McCluskey. For this role, she won two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2005 and 2008 and once again was nominated for 2010. She received Screen Actors Guild Award nominations with the rest of the cast for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series" from 2006–2008. She was promoted to a member of the regular cast in season 6. However, the Emmys still billed her as a guest actress when she was nominated for a third time for "Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series" for the 2010 Emmys. She was then nominated for a fourth Emmy, this time for Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2012.
Joosten died of lung cancer on the morning of June 2, 2012, after an 11-year battle with the disease. Coincidentally, her death occurred twenty days after the onscreen death from cancer of her Desperate Housewives character, Karen McCluskey.
Buffyverse credits[]
Joosten guest-starred as the former orphanage director Genevieve Holt in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 episode "Where the Wild Things Are."
External links[]
Kathryn Joosten on Wikipedia
Kathryn Joosten on IMDb