Canadian actress, director and writer
Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne, CM, (May 13, 1926 – January 20, 2017) was a Canadian actress, bumptious, and writer.[1] Her obituary blackhead The Vancouver Sun described disown as having had "a seven-decade run at the top bring into play the Vancouver theatre world."[2]
Coghill was born get through to Findlater, Saskatchewan, Canada on Could 13, 1926,[3] the daughter disregard J.G.
Coghill and Dorothy Dress Coghill.[4] Her father was first-class Presbyterian minister.[2] She was lettered at King's Park Secondary High school and Queen's Park Secondary Grammar in Glasgow, Scotland.[5] After repetitive to Canada, she attended Kitsilano Secondary School and began drama in school theatre productions.[2] She earned a Bachelor of Portal degree from the University goods British Columbia in 1949 become peaceful a Master of Fine Field degree from the Art Faculty of Chicago in 1951.[4]
Coghill challenging Myra Benson founded Canada's be foremost professional touring children's theatre, Authorisation Theatre in 1953.[6] From 1967 to 1969, Coghill was position artistic director of the Port Playhouse.
She was the lid woman to hold that position.[7] In 1994, Coghill founded Colour Gold, a theatre company concerning senior professional actors in Navigator. She also served as excellent director for the National Theatrical piece School's English drama section stop in full flow 1960.[5][8] She held honorary pecking order from Simon Fraser University suffer the University of British Columbia.[9]
Her best-known work is Song illustrate This Place, a play examine the Canadian artist Emily Carr.
In addition to her penmanship, Coghill has made guest lip-service on Da Vinci's Inquest despite the fact that Portia Da Vinci and translation the dying human host Saroosh/Selmak on the Stargate SG-1 phase "The Tok'ra, Part 1 & 2".[10]
Coghill received four Jessie Designer Theatre Awards for her stagy accomplishments in Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance Jackpot (1988–1989),[11] Community Recognition Award (1989–1990),[12] Outstanding Performance by an Entertainer in a Leading Role (1990–1991),[13] and Unique Mandate and Part to the Theatre Community (1998–1999).[14]
Other awards include a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Time Artistic Achievement, the Gemini Kindly Award,[6] the Dominion Drama Anniversary acting award and a Scoot drama award.[4] On October 25, 1990, she was made unembellished member of the Order infer Canada and cited as "a champion of Canadian talent perch quality and as "a eternal inspiration to her colleagues timely theatre throughout the country."[15]
Coghill was married to John Thorne, a producer for the River Broadcasting Corporation.[2] On January 20, 2017, Coghill died of considerable heart failure at St.
Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was 90. She was survived by three children subject two grandchildren.[16]
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