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Coghill, Joy

LC control no.no2003118581
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Personal name headingCoghill, Joy
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Birth date1926-05-13
Death date2017-01-20
Place of birthSaskatchewan
Findlater (Sask.)
Place of deathVancouver (B.C.)
AffiliationOrder of Canada
Profession or occupationActors Dramatists Theatrical producers and directors
Found inSong of this place, 2003: t.p. (Joy Coghill) Can. CIP (Coghill, Joy)
Wikipedia, viewed 10 February 2017: Joy Coghill (Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne, CM; Canadian actress, director, and writer; born May 13, 1926, Findlater, Saskatchewan; cofounded Canada's first professional touring children's theatre, Holiday Theatre, in 1953 and founded a theatre company for senior professional actors in Vancouver, Western Gold, in 1994; died January 20, 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia)
Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, viewed 10 February 2017 (Joy Coghill, C.M., M.F.A., LL.D.; Vancouver, British Columbia; Member of the Order of Canada, awarded on October 25, 1990, invested on April 17, 1991; One of Canada's finest actresses, she is a veteran of stage, television and film who has portrayed many unforgettable characters including Ma Murray, Sarah Bernhardt and Emily Carr. She has also worked as a director, teacher and writer and, as a champion of Canadian talent and quality, is a continuing inspiration to her colleagues in theatre throughout the country)
Amicus database, 10 February 2017 (authorized access point: Coghill, Joy)