It's Never Too Late to Follow Your Dream (All the Way to Bartlett's White House)
Saturday June 2, 2012 While poking around on IMDB a few weeks ago, I learned that actress Kathryn Joosten, who I loved as Mrs. Landingham on The West Wing , didn't begin pursuing acting until her 40s. The change of direction in her life only came about after Joosten, then a psychiatric nurse and a mother of two, divorced her alcoholic husband. As it says in the biography section of her official website : "Kathryn never forgot the anger and bitterness her mother expressed on her death bed for having put aside dreams and plans for the future that would never be. After a few successes at Community Theater, Kathryn decided to see if she could follow her dream." Along with beating the odds by having a late-start acting career that earned her two Emmys, Joosten also began a battle with lung cancer in 2001 which she only just lost today . I'm not a big follower of celebrity news, because most of the time I think the wrong stories get the most tractio...