Joyce DeWitt
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Joyce Anne DeWitt (born April 23, 1949) is an American actress known for playing Janet Wood on the ABC sitcom Three's Company from 1977 to 1984.
Early life
Joyce DeWitt was born April 23, 1949, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. She graduated from Speedway Senior High School, and once worked at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ticket office. She is of Italian descent. She competed in speech and debate through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. After she received a bachelor's degree in theater from Ball State University, she moved to California to earn her master's degree from UCLA, graduating in 1974.
Personal life
DeWitt was in a romantic relationship with actor and director Ray Buktenica from 1973 to 1980.
On July 4, 2009, DeWitt was arrested in El Segundo, California, and cited for drunken driving. According to press reports, police pulled her over after she drove past a barricade near a park. An officer arrested the actress after he observed signs she had been drinking and administered a field sobriety test. She was booked at the police station, cited, and released on her own recognizance. On May 27, 2010, she pleaded no contest to one count misdemeanor and was placed on three years' probation and ordered to undergo a nine-month alcohol program. She was also ordered to pay a $510 fine, plus penalty assessments. In exchange for her plea, a second misdemeanor count was dismissed.
Career
At the age of 13, DeWitt first appeared on stage for the first time. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ball State University. Subsequently, while she was in summer stock, the director persuaded her to enroll in UCLA's Department of Theatre MFA program, where she was given the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship and the Clifton Webb Scholarship. She served as a secretary until her television debut on a series of Baretta when attending UCLA. Dewitt has denied that the two were ever met despite rumors that she was mentored by actor Abe Vigoda.
DeWitt is best known for her role as Janet Wood during the 1977-1984 run of the company Three's Company, a job she gained after being cast in the show's second pilot. Janet appeared in a 1979 episode of the spinoff series The Ropers.
DeWitt appeared in an episode of Finder of Lost Love in 1984, after which she stopped acting for many years. In June 1991, she revived acting in a scene of Noises Off at the Cherry County Playhouse in Michigan. She appeared in the 1995 television comedy film Spring Fling. In a 1997 episode of Pinky and the Brain, a woman based on her was portrayed by another actress. She appeared on an episode of Cybill and made a cameo on the penultimate episode of Living Single. Hope Island, The Nick at Nite Holiday Special and Call of the Wild were among her 2000s television shows.
The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company, directed by DeWitt, was co-produced and broadcast in 2003. Melanie Paxson plays DeWitt in the film DeWitt.
She appeared in the indie film Failing Better Now in 2008. In 2009, DeWitt appeared in a stage production of Married Alive in Calgary, Canada.
DeWitt succeeded Eve Plumb in the title role of Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating & Marriage at the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre in New York City's Times Square in June 2011. She appeared in Dinner with Friends at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Canada, that same year.
DeWitt appeared in two separate stage productions of Love Letters in 2012, starring Tab Hunter and Tony Dow respectively.
DeWitt appeared on Suzanne Somers' talk show Suzanne Somers: Breaking Through in 2012, where she and Somers reminisced about their time with Three's Company together. Somers apologised for the spat between them, as well as exchanging anecdotes about the last time they both spoke to their late co-star John Ritter. DeWitt's appearance on Somers' program was the first time the two actresses had seen or talked to each other since being out of town 31 years ago, involving a salary dispute.
In 2018 and a stage production of Nunsense at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in New Jersey, DeWitt played Mother Superior.