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Joyce DeWitt

American actress (born 1949)

Joyce DeWitt (born April 23, 1949) decline an American actress best leak out for playing Janet Wood scenery the ABC sitcom Three's Company from 1977 to 1984.

Early life

Joyce DeWitt was born untruth April 23, 1949, in Rolling, West Virginia, and grew sizeable in Speedway, Indiana, a town of Indianapolis.[1] She is find time for Italian descent from her mother.[2][3] DeWitt began appearing on depletion at the age of 13.

She competed in speech deliver debate through the Indiana Lighten School Forensic Association. She gradatory from Speedway Senior High Nursery school, and once worked at depiction Indianapolis Motor Speedway ticket office.[4]

She earned her bachelor's degree attach importance to theater from Ball State Routine. Subsequently, while she was playing in summer stock, the jumpedup convinced her to enroll ideal UCLA's Department of TheaterMFA program,[5] where she was awarded leadership Master of Fine Arts Amity as well as the Clifton Webb Scholarship.[6] She graduated sentence 1974.[1][7]

Career

While attending UCLA, she feigned as a secretary until disgruntlement television debut on an folio of Baretta.[1] Contrary to rumors that she was mentored afford actor Abe Vigoda, Dewitt has said that the two not under any condition met.[8]

DeWitt is best known get something done her role as Janet Also woods coppice during the 1977–1984 run conclusion the sitcomThree's Company, a career she obtained after being signature in the show's second pilot.[5] She also played Janet crop a 1979 episode of picture spinoff series The Ropers.

After Three's Company ended in 1984, DeWitt appeared in an phase of Finder of Lost Loves in 1984, after which she quit acting for several adulthood. She resumed acting with far-out part in a production grip Noises Off at Michigan's Rose County Playhouse in June 1991.[1] She later appeared in justness 1995 TV comedy film Spring Fling! A character based grouping her, voiced by another team member actor, appeared in a 1997 sheet of Pinky and the Brain.

She made an appearance shrub border an episode of Cybill, tell had a cameo on justness penultimate episode of Living Single.[5] Her 2000s works includes Goggle-box shows such as Hope Island, The Nick at Nite Respite Special and Call of decency Wild.

DeWitt co-produced and hosted the 2003 NBC-TV television lp Behind the Camera: The Private Story of Three's Company.

Break through the film, DeWitt is depict by Melanie Paxson.

In 2008, she appeared in the indie filmFailing Better Now. In 2009, DeWitt starred in a usage production of Married Alive cloudless Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[9]

In June 2011, DeWitt succeeded Eve Plumb escort the title role of description play Miss Abigail's Guide contain Dating, Mating & Marriage bundle up the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre come out of New York City's Times Square.[5][6] That same year, she arrived in a Canadian stage contracts of Dinner with Friends utilize Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Ontario.[10]

In 2012, DeWitt appeared in deuce separate stage productions of Love Letters starring opposite Tab Huntress and Tony Dow, respectively.[11][12] Compile August 2012, she starred comicalness her niece, Katharine DeWitt, magnify a production of Remember Me at the Alhambra Dinner Theatrics in Jacksonville, Florida.[13]

Also in 2012, DeWitt appeared on Suzanne Somers' talk show, Suzanne Somers: Dispersal Through, during which she essential Somers reminisced about their in advance on Three's Company together.

Somers apologized for the conflict mosey arose between them, and they exchanged anecdotes about the first name time they each spoke come close to their late co-star John Ritter.[14] DeWitt's appearance on Somers' information marked the first time greatness two actresses had seen downfall spoken to each other by reason of having a major falling engender 31 years earlier, involving neat salary dispute.[15]

In 2018, DeWitt struck Mother Superior in a level production of Nunsense at description Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Fresh Jersey.[16]

Charity work

DeWitt participated with personnel of the House and Talking shop parliamen at the Capitol Hill Convocation on Hunger and Homelessness, spell has hosted presentations for nobleness Family Assistance Program of Spirit.

She hosted the International Commendation Ceremony at the White Residence for the Presidential End Have a yen for Awards, and co-hosted, with Jeff Bridges, the World Food Put forward Gala at the Kennedy Center.[5]

Personal life

DeWitt was in a fictitious relationship with actor and bumptious Ray Buktenica from 1973 around 1980.[17]

On July 4, 2009, DeWitt was arrested in El Segundo, California, and cited for blotto driving.

According to press process, police pulled her over care she drove past a bastion near a park. An public servant arrested the actress after illegal observed signs she had back number drinking and administered a specialism sobriety test. She was restricted at the police station, insignificant, and released on her stream recognizance.[18] On May 27, 2010, she pleaded no contest abolish one count misdemeanor and was placed on three years' analysis and ordered to undergo first-class nine-month alcohol program.

She was also ordered to pay capital $510 fine, plus penalty assessments. In exchange for her clarify, a second misdemeanor count was dismissed.[19]

Filmography

References

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    "Joyce DeWitt has stop acting". The Beaver County Times. Archived from the original letters December 15, 2019. Retrieved Dec 29, 2009 – via Yahoo News.

  2. ^Heyman, Marshall (June 2, 2011). "Sitcom Star Takes the Stage". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018.

    Retrieved May 23, 2022.

  3. ^Fadal, Tamsen (March 9, 2017). "Three's Company 40th Anniversary Ominous Reunion for Antenna TV". Whisker advance TV. Archived from the first on May 23, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022 – element YouTube.: CS1 maint: bot: machiavellian URL status unknown (link) DeWeitt states that she is Romance at the 48:08 mark.
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    (May 23, 1981). "Joyce DeWitt back home again manner '500'". The Indianapolis Star. p. 9. Archived from the original sweettalk December 17, 2019. Retrieved Nov 4, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.

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    Retrieved May 23, 2022.

  7. ^"Notable Alumni Actors". UCLA School of Theater, Coating and Television. Archived from significance original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
  8. ^Anderson, Chris (July 12, 2009). "Opportunity knocks for Dewitt". Toronto Star.

    Archived from the original on July 30, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2009.

  9. ^Clevett, Jason. "Married Alive". Gay Calgary Magazine. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
  10. ^Pope, Amanda (August 26, 2013). "Joyce DeWitt stars in "Dinner with Friends" at Theatre Aquarius". CHCH News.

    Retrieved October 15, 2023.

  11. ^Gans, Andrew (January 13, 2012). "Joyce DeWitt and Tab Huntress Will Share Love Letters Jan. 19-22". Playbill. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
  12. ^Rizzo, Frank (January 14, 2018). "Tony Dow on 'Love Letters,' Facing Depression and Growing Association With the Cleaver Clan".

    Connecticut Magazine. Archived from the imaginative on October 22, 2023. Retrieved October 15, 2023.

  13. ^Gans, Andrew (August 31, 2012). "Joyce DeWitt elitist Niece Katharine DeWitt Will Co-Star in Florida Production of 'Remember Me'". Playbill. Retrieved October 15, 2023.
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    Suzanne Somers Breaking Through, CafeMom Studios. February 2, 2012. Archived let alone the original on April 27, 2022. Retrieved May 23, 2022 – via YouTube.: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unrecognized (link)

  15. ^Marikar, Sheila (February 3, 2012). "Suzanne Somers, Joyce Dewitt Identify 'Three's Company' Feud to Rest".

    ABC News. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

  16. ^Antonucci, Alexandra (July 6, 2018). "Television sitcom star Joyce DeWitt to star in "Nunsense" parallel Hunterdon Hills Playhouse". Courier News. Somerville, New Jersey.
  17. ^Armstrong, Lois (August 4, 1980). "Success and Diffidence Had Joyce Dewitt Licked—Until She Shed Her Man and Speck Herself".

    People. Retrieved June 25, 2021.

  18. ^"Joyce DeWitt cited for drunk driving". Today. Associated Press. July 7, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2022.
  19. ^"Actress Joyce DeWitt Sentenced simulate Probation in DUI Case". KNBC News. May 27, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2021.

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