Catherine Dzhousten: filmography and biography of the actress

Catherine Dzhusten is known to TV lovers for her participation in the series "Desperate Housewives", "Anatomy of Passion" and "The West Wing." And although Kathryn was not megapopular, the actress left behind a rich filmography. How did Joosten's career begin and how did she end her life?

early years

Catherine Dzhousten was born in 1939 in Florida. She had a very extraordinary fate in terms of acting.

Catherine Jousten in her youth received a medical education and for a long time worked as a regular nurse in a psychiatric clinic. At 24, Catherine lost her mother, who died of cancer. Before her death, she told her daughter that she had made only one mistake in her life - she betrayed her dream. But Catherine then missed these words. She continued to work in a psychiatric clinic, although she was an avid movie-changer and, perhaps, already at that time she had a desire to try herself in this profession.

Jousten married a psychiatrist, gave birth to two children. But when a woman was forty years old, her marriage broke up. Work in a psychiatric clinic also became unbearable, so Katherine retired and went on acting classes. At 42, she received her first film role.

Catherine Jousten: movies

For the first time, Catherine appeared on the screens in 1984 in the film "Grandview, USA", where Jamie Lee Curtis and Patrick Swayze also starred. It was just one of a hundred roles that she had to play an actress for her career. However, the main characters Catherine never trusted.

Catherine Dzhusten most often appeared in the series. From 1988 to 1997, she repeatedly flashed in the drama "Rosanna". And in 1996 she began to star in the TV series "Ambulance", which subsequently won 23 Emmy awards. By the way, in this series began his career 33-year-old George Clooney.

Also, the actress can be seen in the popular serial films "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "X-Files" and "Charmed." In the film "The New Jeanne D'Arc" Katherine appeared in the image of the old woman. She also starred in the series "Clinic", in the image and likeness of which Russian Interns were created.

The West Wing

For the first time the game Catherine Dzhusten was appreciated after the shooting of the actress in the political series "West Wing."

The political drama "The Western Wing" was created by Aaron Sorkin and was broadcast on the NBC channel. The series was so successful that the channel extended it for seven seasons. In the center of the plot is the everyday life of the administration of the fictional US president, whose role was played by Martin Sheen.

Perhaps the success of the film is explained by the novelty of the story: viewers are already fed up with the adventures of policemen, magicians, witches and adolescents, and political intrigues, squabbles and squabbles were practically never covered by anyone. Here are the producers of the NBC channel and decided to fill this gap.

Catherine Dzhusten in this story went to the role of Dolores Landingem - the secretary of the president. For this role, the actress twice won the Screen Actors Guild of the United States.

Anatomy of Passion

Another American rating series, in which Joosten appeared, is the medical drama Anatomy of Passion. The creator of the project was Shonda Rhimes, who, due to her work on the series, was nominated three times for Emmy.

"Anatomy of Passion" is considered more than a successful project, because it was released twelve seasons (this is 252 episodes in total). The project was overseen by the ABC television channel.

"Desperate Housewives"

However, the central place in Catherine's career does not belong to the series "Anatomy of Passion", the actress was 100% recognized on the streets, thanks to the acclaimed multi-series film Desperate Housewives.

"Desperate Housewives" conquered the whole world. It is difficult to find a civilized country in which this series would not be broadcast. In Russia, this film was shown by the channel "STS".

In the center of the story is the fate of four women who live in the private sector in the fictional city of Fairview. The four main characters are friendly, but not at all alike: Susan Mayer alone brings up her daughter; Lynette Scavo left her business in order to raise four children; Bree Van de Kamp - just a red-headed power bitch; And Gabriel Solis is a former model that languishes in a boring family life. This is a colorful ensemble of the film.

Catherine Dzhousten first appeared in episodes of the series as a guest celebrity. For these episodic appearances in 2005, the actress got her first Emmy Award. By 2008, the character Dzhusten (Karen McClasky) was introduced into the storyline of the series on an ongoing basis. And then Katherine got her second Emmy award.

Than so enticed viewers of the series "Desperate Housewives", that his rating for the first two seasons kept at 10.66? The thing is that the directors and screenwriters skillfully combined several screen genres in one film: the melodrama, comedy, drama, tragedy and detective were unfolding in front of the audience at the same time. The plot turns constantly kept the audience in suspense and forced to wait for each new series with great impatience.

The cause of the death of the actress

Ironically, the heroine Catherine Dzhusten at the end of the eighth season dies of cancer. The creators of the series could not help but know that the actress is actually fighting this disease. And yet they wrote a similar episode in the script.

Catherine first fell ill with lung cancer in 2001. She managed to temporarily stop her ailment, but in 2009 the disease returned again. The actress died in 2012 two weeks after the last series of "Desperate Housewives" was aired.