Lauren Bacall in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1996). Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924, in The Bronx, New York, the only child of Natalie ("née" Weinstein; 1901–1977), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales. Both her parents were Jewish. According to Bacall, her mother emigrated from Iași, the Kingdom of Romania, through Ellis Island, and her father was born in New Jersey to parents who were born in Valozhyn, a significant center of Jewish life, in present-day Belarus, then in the Russian Empire. Soon after her
Joan Bruce roles in "The Entertainer", "Travelling North", "Heartbreak House", "The Life and Times of Nicholas Appelby" and "Something Afoot". She married her second husband Kenneth William in 1978, and subsequently appeared on television in roles in "Chopper Squad" and "A Country Practice", before retiring in 1988. She was best known however for her long-running roles in the Australian soap opera "Certain Women" with Queenie Ashton and June Salter and for voicing the kangaroo and Dot's mother in the 1977 children's animation/live action film "Dot and the Kangaroo". She died in 2014, aged 86. Joan Bruce Joan Olive Bruce (born Joan Thompson)