Background
Born in Bloemfontein,, she was encouraged by her father to come to to study acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Joyce Grant
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Career
She returned to to begin her acting career. Her performances included "Lola" in William Inge"s Come Back Little Sheba and as "Laura Wingfield" in Tennessee Williams" The Glass Menagerie. At the end of the 1950s she returned to permanently.
In Jack Pulman"s The Happy Apple, her singing voice nightly brought the house down with her rendering of Mozart"s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
She appeared in Something’s Afoot, The Club, trap and Tonight at Eight-thirty. She appeared in the television musical Pickwick for the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1969 and played opposite Frankie Howerd on Broadway in Rockefeller and the Red Indians.
After retiring from the stage she became a "buddy" to Human Immunodeficiency Virus+ patients at the Lighthouse in During the last nine years of her life she was determined, despite ill health, to broaden her outlook and took various courses at the City Literary Institute and at the University of the Third Age. Joyce Grant died on 11 July 2006, from cancer, aged 82.
