Background
Her father, André van Gyseghem, was an actor and director Her mother, Jean Forbes-Robertson was also an actress.
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Joanna Gyseghem
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Trinity College.
Career
She appeared in the television series Fraud Squad as Detective Sergeant Hicks from 1969 to 1970. In 1972, she played Olivia in Twelfth Night, with Punch commenting on "Joanna Van Gyseghem"s Olivia, veering from intimations of imperiousness to anticipations of lechery with great charm and fine technical control". She is known for her roles as Linda Cochran in the television sitcom Duty Free and as Marigold Featherstone, wife of Guthrie Featherstone, Queen's Counsel, Member of Parliament, in Rumpole of the Bailey.
Joanna had a guest role in the British sitcom Barbara which starred Gwen Taylor.
Van Gyseghem played the role of Yvonne, an ex-girlfriend of Barbara"s husband Ted who visited from Miami to attend the wedding in the episode "Wedding". She appeared in the series The Darling Buds of May as Felicity Harran in 1993 and also in the television series Heartbeat as Penelope Ealham in 2000 and more recently has also played the minor role of Camilla Greenwood in the British Broadcasting Corporation soap opera EastEnders in 2008.
Her hobbies have included making jewellery.
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United Kingdom