Joyce Carey
Actress

Joyce Carey Net Worth

Joyce Carey was a distinguished London-born actress who began her career in 1916. She was well-known for her interpretations of Shakespearean roles in Stratford-upon-Avon and for her long association with Noël Coward. In 1934, she wrote the comedy "Sweet Aloes" and starred in the film adaptation, Give Me Your Heart (1936). During WWII, she toured with ENSA in Coward plays and later repeated her stage successes in the filmed versions of the same. Her best remembered role was that of the train station buffet manageress Myrtle Bagot in David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945). In her later career, she was known for her roles as aristocratic dowagers, doting or confused aunts or mothers. At the age of 90, she still performed on stage in a minor Coward play, "Semi-Monde". In 1982, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress
Birth Day March 30, 1898
Birth Place  Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom
Age 121 YEARS OLD
Died On 28 February 1993(1993-02-28) (aged 94)\nWestminster, London, England
Birth Sign Aries
Occupation Actress
Years active 1916–1988
Parent(s) Gerald Lawrence Lilian Braithwaite

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

Famous Quotes:

Without ever becoming a big star, Joyce Carey was a graceful and distinctive actress whose performances consistently added lustre to the productions in which she appeared. Slight in build, with a wide-eyed and wistful face, she looked vulnerable and had a social poise that secured her many aristocratic roles among them Wilde's Lady Markby and the Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax. In private life her quiet, amusing personality endeared her to many people, notably Noel Coward and she became part of "the Master's" private world.

Biography/Timeline

1916

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.

1926

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.

1942

During the Second World War, Carey toured with John Gielgud for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) bringing theatre to members of the armed forces at home and abroad, recreating some of her roles from Tonight at 8:30. In 1942 she rejoined Coward to tour in his three newest plays, This Happy Breed as Sylvia, Blithe Spirit as Ruth, and Present Laughter as Liz – a character based partly on the Actress herself. She later played all three roles in London. After the war she played in new Coward plays, Quadrille (with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne) and Nude with Violin (with Gielgud in London and Coward in New York).

1976

Between 1976 and 1979 Carey starred in the popular ITV series The Cedar Tree. Her last stage performance was in 1984, as Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion, opposite Peter O'Toole; the critic Michael Coveney described her performance as plaintive and touching. She continued working on screen into her nineties, attracting enthusiastic notices for her portrayal of a frail old lady faced with eviction in Michael Palin's BBC play, No 27.

1982

Carey was awarded the OBE in 1982. She never married: she enjoyed the enduring friendship of Coward's adopted "family". When Coward received his knighthood in 1970, Carey, along with the costume designer Gladys Calthrop, accompanied him to the ceremony at Buckingham Palace. She died in London, aged 94.

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