Joyce DeWitt | 76

Joyce DeWitt was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on April 23, 1949, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. Joyce began taking acting classes when she was in high school. Despite her father’s disapproval of her ambition, she chose drama as a major in college. DeWitt then moved to UCLA, where she earned her master’s degree. After college, she worked as a legal secretary while trying out for several screen tests.

In the end, she chose Three’s Company, a play about a man and two girls living together, from two comedies offered to her by ABC. She made a good choice, and the other program never worked out well after it was finished. She had been in a lot of theater before, and everyone knew her as the wise, down-to-earth, dark-haired roommate Janet Wood in a football uniform.