<Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> Jonathan Joosten and Timothy Joosten </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Primetime Emmy Awards (2005, 2008) </Td> </Tr> <P> Kathryn Joosten (December 20, 1939--June 2, 2012) was an American television actress . Her best known roles include Dolores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008 . </P> <P> Joosten was born Kathryn Rausch in Chicago, Illinois to Dutch - German parents . Her first career was as a psychiatric nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, living in nearby Lake Forest, Illinois, where she married a psychiatrist and raised two sons . Following her 1980 divorce, she began acting in community theater in 1982, at age 42 . </P>

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