Chancellor, Joyce (1906–)
Chancellor, Joyce (1906–)
Irish actress. Born Dec 27, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland; dau. of John William Chancellor and Cicely (Granger) Chancellor; sister of Betty Chancellor (actress who married playwright William Denis Johnston); m. Fred O'Donovan (actor, died 1952).
Made stage debut at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as Paquita in The Kingdom of God (1923); made London debut as Honor Blake in Playboy of the Western World (1925), followed by Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The White-Headed Boy, The Far-Off Hills, General John Regan and The Moon in the Yellow River, among others; made film Irish Hearts (1934).
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