Kathryn Joosten cause of death: What happened to Kathryn Joosten?

Kathryn Joosten 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.

Kathryn Joosten cause of death: What happened to Kathryn Joosten?

Kathryn died of lung cancer on June 2, 2012, after an 11-year battle with the disease.

Her death occurred twenty days after the onscreen death from cancer of her Desperate Housewives character, Karen McCluskey.

Viewers in the United Kingdom first saw her onscreen death the day after her real-life passing.

Kathryn was born Kathryn Rausch in Chicago, Illinois to Dutch-German parents. She adopt the name Joosten when she got married to her husband George Joosten.

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 theatre in 1982, at age 42.

Source: Ghanafuo.com

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