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.
Mother
Movie 2000
Esther
Movie 1998
Movie 2003
Judge
Movie 1995
Self
Movie 2009
Tv 2000
Tv 1996
Tv 2001
Tv 2003
Tv 2001
Tv 2003
Tv 2000
Tv 1988
Tv 2005
Tv 1999
Tv 2006
Mrs. Mariah Westbrook
Tv 1997
Self
Tv 2008