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	\| caption = ~~Carey as Myrtle in ''[[Brief Encounter\|Brief Encounter]]'', 1945~~		\| caption =
	\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence		\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}

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	Between 1976 and 1979, Carey starred in the popular series ''[[The Cedar Tree]]''.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/cedar-tree-the-complete-second-series/oclc/890947361&referer=brief_results "The Cedar Tree"], WorldCat, accessed 27 December 2014</ref> Her last stage performance was in 1984, as Mrs Higgins in ''[[Pygmalion (play)\|Pygmalion]]'', opposite [[Peter O'Toole]];<ref name=times/><ref>Wardle, Irving. "Pygmalion", ''The Times'', 17 May 1984, p. 9</ref> the critic [[Michael Coveney]] described her performance as plaintive and touching.<ref>Coveney, Michael. "Pygmalion/Shaftesbury", ''[[Financial Times]]'', 16 May 1984, p. 15</ref> She continued working on screen into her nineties, attracting enthusiastic notices for her portrayal of a frail old lady faced with eviction in [[Michael Palin]]'s [[BBC]] play ''No 27''.<ref name=times/>		Between 1976 and 1979, Carey starred in the popular series ''[[The Cedar Tree]]''.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/cedar-tree-the-complete-second-series/oclc/890947361&referer=brief_results "The Cedar Tree"], WorldCat, accessed 27 December 2014</ref> Her last stage performance was in 1984, as Mrs Higgins in ''[[Pygmalion (play)\|Pygmalion]]'', opposite [[Peter O'Toole]];<ref name=times/><ref>Wardle, Irving. "Pygmalion", ''The Times'', 17 May 1984, p. 9</ref> the critic [[Michael Coveney]] described her performance as plaintive and touching.<ref>Coveney, Michael. "Pygmalion/Shaftesbury", ''[[Financial Times]]'', 16 May 1984, p. 15</ref> She continued working on screen into her nineties, attracting enthusiastic notices for her portrayal of a frail old lady faced with eviction in [[Michael Palin]]'s [[BBC]] play ''No 27''.<ref name=times/>

	She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)\|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1985 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at London's Waldorf Hotel.~~{{Citation needed\|date=September 2021}}~~		She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)\|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1985 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at London's Waldorf Hotel.

	==Critical opinion and personal life==		==Critical opinion and personal life==

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	~~\| name = Joyce Carey~~		\| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]
	\| honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]
	\| image = Actress_Joyce_Carey.jpg		\| image = Actress_Joyce_Carey.jpg
	\| caption = Carey as Myrtle in ''[[w:Brief Encounter\|Brief Encounter]]'', 1945		\| caption = Carey as Myrtle in ''[[Brief Encounter\|Brief Encounter]]'', 1945
	\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence		\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[w:Kensington\|Kensington]], [[w:London\|London]], England		\| birth_place = [[Kensington\|Kensington]], [[London\|London]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1993\|02\|28\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1993\|02\|28\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = [[w:Westminster\|Westminster]], London, England		\| death_place = [[Westminster\|Westminster]], London, England
	\| occupation = Actress		\| occupation = Actress
	\| years_active = 1916–1988		\| years_active = 1916–1988
	\| parents = [[w:Gerald Lawrence\|Gerald Lawrence]]<br>[[w:Lilian Braithwaite\|Lilian Braithwaite]]		\| parents = [[Gerald Lawrence\|Gerald Lawrence]]<br>[[Lilian Braithwaite\|Lilian Braithwaite]]
	\| spouse =		\| spouse =
	\| children =		\| children =
	}}		}}

	'''Joyce Carey''', [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with [[w:Noël Coward\|Noël Coward]]. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of [[w:Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]an roles.		'''Joyce Carey''', [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with [[Noël Coward\|Noël Coward]]. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of [[Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]an roles.

	==Career==		==Career==

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	* {{cite archive \|collection-url= http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp17569/joyce-carey \|collection= Joyce Carey \|institution= National Portrait Gallery (NPG) \|location= London }}		* {{cite archive \|collection-url= http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp17569/joyce-carey \|collection= Joyce Carey \|institution= National Portrait Gallery (NPG) \|location= London }}

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	{{Infobox actor		{{Infobox actor
	\| name = Joyce Carey		\| name = Joyce Carey
	\| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]		\| honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]
	\| image = Actress_Joyce_Carey.jpg		\| image = Actress_Joyce_Carey.jpg
	\| caption = Carey as Myrtle in ''[[Brief Encounter]]'', 1945		\| caption = Carey as Myrtle in ''[[w:Brief Encounter\|Brief Encounter]]'', 1945
	\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence		\| birth_name = Joyce Lilian Lawrence
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[Kensington]], [[London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Kensington\|Kensington]], [[w:London\|London]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1993\|02\|28\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1993\|02\|28\|1898\|03\|30\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = [[Westminster]], London, England		\| death_place = [[w:Westminster\|Westminster]], London, England
	\| occupation = Actress		\| occupation = Actress
	\| years_active = 1916–1988		\| years_active = 1916–1988
	\| parents = [[Gerald Lawrence]]<br>[[Lilian Braithwaite]]		\| parents = [[w:Gerald Lawrence\|Gerald Lawrence]]<br>[[w:Lilian Braithwaite\|Lilian Braithwaite]]
	\| spouse =		\| spouse =
	\| children =		\| children =
	}}		}}

	'''Joyce Carey''', [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with [[Noël Coward]]. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of [[Shakespeare]]an roles.		'''Joyce Carey''', [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with [[w:Noël Coward\|Noël Coward]]. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of [[w:Shakespeare\|Shakespeare]]an roles.

	==Career==		==Career==

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'''Joyce Carey''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with [[Noël Coward]]. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of [[Shakespeare]]an roles.

==Career==
[[File:Barretts-of-Wimpole-Street-3.jpg|thumb|right|260px|Joyce Carey (seated right) as Arabella Barrett in the original Broadway production of ''[[The Barretts of Wimpole Street]]'' (1931)]]
Joyce Carey was born '''Joyce Lilian Lawrence''', the daughter of actor [[Gerald Lawrence]], a matinée idol who had been a juvenile in [[Henry Irving]]'s Shakespeare company, and his wife, actress [[Lilian Braithwaite]],<ref name=who>''Gaye'', pp 426–427</ref> a major [[West End theatre|West End]] star.<ref name=times>"Obituary", ''The Times'', 3 March 1993, p. 17</ref> Carey was educated at the Florence Etlinger Dramatic School.<ref name=who/>

Carey made her stage debut in 1916, aged 18, as Princess Katherine in an all-female production of ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''. She joined [[George Alexander (actor)|Sir George Alexander]]'s company at the [[St James's Theatre]] playing Jacqueline, a French countess, in ''The Aristocrat''. After a succession of [[West End theatre|West End]] roles in light comedy, Carey took on further Shakespearean parts, appearing at [[Royal Shakespeare Theatre|Stratford-upon-Avon]] as Anne Page, [[Perdita (The Winter's Tale)|Perdita]], [[Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Titania]], [[Miranda (The Tempest)|Miranda]] and [[Juliet]]. Over the next few years she added [[Hermia]], [[Celia (As You Like It)|Celia]] and [[Olivia (Twelfth Night)|Olivia]] to her Shakespearean repertoire, in between regular appearance in West End comedies.<ref name=who/>

Her first appearance in a [[Noël Coward]] play was as Sarah Hurst in ''[[Easy Virtue (play)|Easy Virtue]]'' in New York in 1926.<ref name=who/> For most of the following seven years, her career was chiefly in New York, following a great success in ''The Road to Rome'' in 1927.<ref name=times/> In 1934 she wrote (pseudonymously), and acted a supporting role in, a comedy, ''Sweet Aloes'', which ran in London for more than a year.<ref name=who/> In 1936 she resumed her connection with Coward, playing a series of character roles in his cycle of short plays, ''[[Tonight at 8.30]]'' in London and New York.<ref name=who/> In 1938 she starred in the comedy play ''[[Spring Meeting (play)|Spring Meeting]]'' in the West End.

During the Second World War, Carey toured with [[John Gielgud]] for the [[Entertainments National Service Association]] (ENSA) bringing theatre to members of the armed forces at home and abroad, recreating some of her roles from ''Tonight at 8.30''. In 1942 she rejoined Coward to tour in his three newest plays, ''[[This Happy Breed]]'' as Sylvia, ''[[Blithe Spirit (play)|Blithe Spirit]]'' as Ruth, and ''[[Present Laughter]]'' as Liz – a character based partly on the actress herself.<ref>Hoare, p. 294</ref> She later played all three roles in London. After the war she played in new Coward plays, ''[[Quadrille (play)|Quadrille]]'' (with [[Alfred Lunt]] and [[Lynn Fontanne]]) and ''[[Nude with Violin]]'' (with Gielgud in London and Coward in New York).<ref name=who/><ref name=times/>

''[[The Times]]'' stated of her film work: "One role in a film written by Coward will remain always in the memory: with haughty disdain and an accent of fearful gentility Carey was the manageress of the station buffet in ''[[Brief Encounter]]'', who froze her customers and slapped down attempts at familiarity from [[Stanley Holloway]]'s ticket collector."<ref name=times/> Carey's other Coward film roles were the petty officer's wife in ''[[In Which We Serve]]'' and Mrs Bradman in ''[[Blithe Spirit (1945 film)|Blithe Spirit]]''. Her other films included ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' and ''[[Cry, the Beloved Country (1951 film)|Cry the Beloved Country]]''.<ref name=who/><ref name=times/>

Between 1976 and 1979, Carey starred in the popular series ''[[The Cedar Tree]]''.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/cedar-tree-the-complete-second-series/oclc/890947361&referer=brief_results "The Cedar Tree"], WorldCat, accessed 27 December 2014</ref> Her last stage performance was in 1984, as Mrs Higgins in ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'', opposite [[Peter O'Toole]];<ref name=times/><ref>Wardle, Irving. "Pygmalion", ''The Times'', 17 May 1984, p. 9</ref> the critic [[Michael Coveney]] described her performance as plaintive and touching.<ref>Coveney, Michael. "Pygmalion/Shaftesbury", ''[[Financial Times]]'', 16 May 1984, p. 15</ref> She continued working on screen into her nineties, attracting enthusiastic notices for her portrayal of a frail old lady faced with eviction in [[Michael Palin]]'s [[BBC]] play ''No 27''.<ref name=times/>

She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1985 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]] at London's Waldorf Hotel.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

==Critical opinion and personal life==
''The Times'' commented in its obituary of Carey:
{{quote|Without ever becoming a big star, Joyce Carey was a graceful and distinctive actress whose performances consistently added lustre to the productions in which she appeared. Slight in build, with a wide-eyed and wistful face, she looked vulnerable and had a social poise that secured her many aristocratic roles among them [[Oscar Wilde|Wilde]]'s Lady Markby and the Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax. In private life her quiet, amusing personality endeared her to many people, notably Noel Coward and she became part of "the Master's" private world.<ref name=times/>|}}
Carey was awarded the [[OBE]] in 1982. She never married: she enjoyed the enduring friendship of Coward's adopted "family".<ref name=times/> When Coward received his knighthood in 1970, Carey, along with the costume designer [[Gladys Calthrop]], accompanied him to the ceremony at [[Buckingham Palace]].<ref>Lesley pp. 428-29</ref> She died in London, aged 94.<ref name=times/>

==Selected filmography==
===Film===
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* ''[[God and the Man]]'' (1918) as Priscilla Sefton
* ''[[Because (film)|Because]]'' (1918)
* ''[[Colonel Newcome (film)|Colonel Newcome]]'' (1920) as Rose
* ''[[In Which We Serve]]'' (1942) as Mrs. Hardy / Kath
* ''[[Blithe Spirit (1945 film)|Blithe Spirit]]'' (1945) as Violet Bradman
* ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' (1945) as Miss Winterton
* ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (1945) as Myrtle Bagot
* ''[[The October Man]]'' (1947) as Mrs. Vinton
* ''[[London Belongs to Me]]'' (1948) as Mrs. Vizzard
* ''[[It's Hard to Be Good]]'' (1948) as Alice Beckett
* ''[[The Chiltern Hundreds (film)|The Chiltern Hundreds]]'' (1949) as Lady Caroline
* ''[[The Astonished Heart (film)|The Astonished Heart]]'' (1950) as Susan Birch
* ''[[Happy Go Lovely]]'' (1951) as Bruno's Secretary
* ''[[Cry, the Beloved Country (1951 film)|Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' (1951) as Margaret Jarvis
* ''[[Street Corner (1953 film)|Street Corner]]'' (1953) as Miss Hopkins
* ''[[The End of the Affair (1955 film)|The End of the Affair]]'' (1955) as Miss Palmer
* ''[[Stolen Assignment]]'' (1955) as Ida Garnett
* ''[[Loser Takes All (film)|Loser Takes All]]'' (1956) as Bird's Nest
* ''[[Alive and Kicking (1959 film)|Alive and Kicking]]'' (1959) as Matron
* ''[[The Rough and the Smooth]]'' (1959) as Mrs. Thompson
* ''[[Libel (film)|Libel]]'' (1959) as Miss Sykes
* ''[[Let's Get Married (1960 film)|Let's Get Married]]'' (1960) as Miss Finch
* ''[[Nearly a Nasty Accident]]'' (1961) as Lady Trowborough
* ''[[The Naked Edge]]'' (1961) as Victoria Hicks
* ''[[Greyfriars Bobby (film)|Greyfriars Bobby]]'' (1961) as First Lady
* ''[[The V.I.P.s (film)|The V.I.P.s]]'' (1963) as Mrs. Damer (uncredited)
* ''[[The Eyes of Annie Jones]]'' (1964) as Aunt Helen
* ''[[A Jolly Bad Fellow]]'' (1965) as Hotel Manageress
* ''[[A Nice Girl Like Me]]'' (1969) as Aunt Celia
* ''[[Lady Caroline Lamb (film)|Lady Caroline Lamb]]'' (1972) as Marquise (uncredited)
* ''[[Father, Dear Father (film)|Father, Dear Father]]'' (1973) as Mother
* ''[[The Black Windmill]]'' (1974) as Miss Monley
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===Television===
* ''[[Danger Man]]'' (1965) Season 2: Episode 15 as Lord Ammonford's wife
* ''[[Father, Dear Father]]'' (1968-1973, ITV) as Patrick's Mother
* ''[[The New Avengers (TV series)|The New Avengers]]'' (1976, ITV) as Lady with Dog
* ''[[The Cedar Tree]]'' (1976–1979, ATV TV series) as Alice, Lady Bourne
* ''[[My Son, My Son (TV series)|My Son, My Son]]'' (1979, BBC) as Mrs. Bendall
* ''[[Miss Marple (TV series)|Miss Marple - A Murder is Announced]]'' (1985, BBC) as Belle Goedler
* ''[[Number 27]]'' (1988, TV movie, BBC) as Miss Barwick

==References==
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==Sources==
* Hoare, Philip. ''Noël Coward, A Biography''. [[Sinclair-Stevenson]] 1995. {{ISBN|1-85619-265-2}}.
* Gaye, Freda (ed). ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', Fourteenth edition. Pitman Publishing, London, 1967
* Lesley, Cole. ''The Life of Noël Coward''. Cape 1976. {{ISBN|0-224-01288-6}}.

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0136983}}
* {{IBDB name|34499}}
* {{Screenonline name|id=586158|name=Joyce Carey biography and filmography}}
* {{cite archive |collection-url= http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp17569/joyce-carey |collection= Joyce Carey |institution= National Portrait Gallery (NPG) |location= London }}

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