Joy Coghill, O.C., is a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She and Myra Benson founded Canada's first professional touring children's theatre, Holiday Theatre in 1953. In 1994, Coghill founded Western Gold, a theatre company for senior professional actors in Vancouver. She holds honorary degrees from SFU and UBC. She has been married to Jack Thorne since 1955. Her best-known work is Song of This Place, a play about the Canadian artist Emily Carr. In addition to her writing, Coghill has made guest appearances on Da Vinci's Inquest as Portia Da Vinci. Joy Coghill also appeared in the Canadian/US science fiction series Stargate SG-1, "The Tok'ra, Part 1 & 2" playing dying human host Saroosh/Selmak. 

January 1st, 1926 in Findlater  /  Died:   Jan 20th, 2017 - aged 90