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EMMYS: Posthumous Nomination For ‘Desperate Housewives’ Kathryn Joosten

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 19, 2012 @ 7:39am PDTTags: Desperate Housewives, Emmys, Kathryn Joosten
Nellie Andreeva

Kathryn Joosten Emmy Nomination 2012A month and a half after her death, Kathryn Joosten this morning landed her first supporting actress nomination for her role on Desperate Housewives. The ABC dramedy, which was a major Emmy contender early in its run and won best comedy series award  for Felicity Huffman in its first year, earned two Emmy nominations for its final season. Fittingly, they went to Joosten and Brenda Strong, whose characters’ deaths framed the series: Strong’s Mary Alice’s suicide in the pilot kicked off the show, while the death of Joosten’s Karen McKluskey was at the center of the series finale in May. Desperate Housewives narrator Strong is nominated in the voice-over category for a second consecutive year. READ MORE »

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R.I.P. Kathryn Joosten

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 2, 2012 @ 2:03pm PDTTags: Desperate Housewives, Kathryn Joosten

Character actress Kathryn Joosten, who played the snoop Karen McCluskey on Desperate Housewives and the president’s secretary on The West Wing, died today in Los Angeles after battling lung cancer for years. She was 72. She won two Emmys … Read More »

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