Birthday: December 20th, 1939 Date of Death: June 2nd, 2012 Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Joosten was born in Chicago. Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, living in nearby Lake Forest, Illinois, where she married a psychiatrist and raised two sons. Following her 1980 divorce, she began acting in community theater in 1982, at age 42.