1990 - 1999

Receives the Gascon-Thomas Award, National Theatre School, for lifetime service.

Lead role in John Lazarus’s Curtains for a Crazy Old Lady. Director: Roy Surrette.

Narrator in animated film From Flores, National Film Board of Canada. Director: Stephen McCallum.

Grandma in Joan MacLeod's Amigo’s Blue Guitar, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Dennis Foon.

Hannah - principal in television series Nancy Drew, starring Margot Kidder, who was injured in a car accident while filming this never-finished series.

Receives Order of Canada.

Miss Helen in The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Jane Heyman.

Receives Jessie Richardson Best Actress Award for Miss Helen in The Road to Mecca. Joy also holds three other Jessie Awards.

Rosemary Lyttle in Street Justice, Season 1, episode 7, Sanctuary, Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

21 Jump Street, Season 5, episode 16, Coppin’ Out, Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

Anna Cortino in television movie My Son Johnnyaka Bad Seed (Australia: video title), ABC Productions.

Sister Francesca in television movie Omen IV: The Awakening, FNM Films.

Certificate of Completion, Emily Carr School of Art, Pre-College Experience Program.

Receives 125th anniversary of Confederation Medal.

Sarah Bernhardt in John Murrell’s Memoir, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. Director: John Murrell.

Lead in The Raft by Patrick Frieson, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg. Director: Kim McCaw.

Katherine Schlemmer's Iceberg Lettuce, Touchstone Company, Vancouver. Director Roy Surrette.

Emilie in The Parallax Garden by Paddy Campbell, Edmonton. Director: Earl Klein.

Eileen and God in Blowin' on Bowen, by Nicola Cavendish, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver. Director: Kim Selody.

Sister Mary in TV movie Miracle on Interstate 880, Columbia Pictures Television. Director: Robert Iscove.

Earlene in the television movie Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica, Orang Productions. Director: John Kent Harrison.

Mrs. Hudson in TV movie Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993) aka 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (USA), Kenneth Johnson Productions. Director: Kenneth Johnson.

Founds Western Gold, Canada’s first professional theatre for seniors. The first production was a creative exploration, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Denise Coffey. It became the subject of a CBC documentary, The Courage to Dream.

Receives honorary degree from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.

Babe in P.K. Page’s Unless the Eye Catch Fire for the Commonwealth Games Festival in Victoria, British Columbia. Director: Jane Heyman. The play was arranged by Coghill as a duet for actor and flutist (Robert Cram).

Betsy in the movie Andre, Kushner-Locke Company. Director: George Miller.

Bernarda in Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca, Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC, Vancouver. Director: Shimon Levy.

Dr. Jorgenson in the television movie, Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story, Jaffe/Braunstein Films. Director: Christian Duguay.

Receives honorary degree from University of British Columbia (LLD).

Receives a lifetime membership in the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association for service to theatre.

Mrs. Ezra Tweak in Sliders, Season 1, episode #6, Summer of Love, St. Clare Entertainment.

Linda Thibedeaux in The X Files, Season 2, episode #12, Aubrey, 20th Century Fox Television. Director: Rob Bowman.

Sister Vincent in television movie, The Other Mother: A Moment of Truth, O'Hara-Horowitz Productions. Director: Bethany Rooney.

Directs George Bernard Shaw’s Don Juan in Hell, Western Gold Theatre Company, Vancouver.

Appointed to inaugural B.C. Arts Council. Chair: Mavor Moore.

Mrs. Blake in television series Poltergeist: The Legacy, Season 1, episode 12, The Bell of Girardius, PMP Legacy productions.

Narrator in documentary Rough Crossings. Director: Teresa MacInnes.

Jennifer in television movie Color Me Perfect, Hearst Entertainment Productions. Director: Michele Lee.

Hebert Whittaker Critics’ Association Award for outstanding contribution to Canadian theatre.

Lear in The Lear Project, for the Women in View Festival, Vancouver. Director: Jane Heyman.

Auntie Auntie/Astrid Árnesson in television series, My Life as a Dog, Atlantis Films Limited. Director: Neill Fearnley.

Directs Alice: A Play with Music, Western Gold Theatre, Vancouver.

Elizabeth Baker in TV series Poltergeist: The Legacy, Season 2, episode 13, The Devil’s Lighthouse, PMP Legacy productions.

Appeared in the movie Silence. Filmed in Canada. Director: Jack Darcus.

Mother Grace in Viper, Season 1, episode 17, Echo of Murder, MEC Viper Productions.

Appeared in the movie The Sleep Room. Filmed in Canada. Director: Anne Wheeler.

Creates The Alzheimer Project for Western Gold Theatre Company. Includes the production of Aaron Bushkowsky’s Strangers Among Us.

Participates in B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame production We’ll Meet Again: Music and Memories of the War Years, at the Orpheum, Vancouver, on Remembrance Day.

Portia Da Vinci in Da Vinci’s Inquest, Season 1, episode 4, The Quality of Mercy, Barna-Alper Productions.

Laura Stansbury in television series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, Season 1, episode 9, Before I Wake, Crescent Entertainment.

Portia Da Vinci in Da Vinci's Inquest, Season 1, episode 6, We All Fall Down, Barna-Alper Productions.

Saroosh/Selmak in Stargate SG-1, Season 2, episode #11, The Tok’ra: Part 1, Sony Pictures Television.

Saroosh/Selmak in Stargate SG-1, Season 2, episode #12, The Tok’ra: Part 2, Sony Pictures Television.

The Outer Limits, Season 4, episode #11, The Vaccine.

Portia Da Vinci in Da Vinci’s Inquest, Season 2, episode #6, Sister’s Light, Barna-Alper Productions.

Portia Da Vinci in Da Vinci’s Inquest, Season 2, episode #5, His Wife, Barna-Alper Productions.

Neighbour in Double Jeopardy aka Doppelmord (Germany) aka Double Condemnation (Canada: French title).