Joyce Windsor (21 January 1932 – 15 October 2008) was an English actress perhaps best remembered for her portrayal of the cleaner Ruby in the BBC1 Comedy Butterflies by Carla Lane.
In the seventies Windsor appeared in Steptoe and Son, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin,[1] The Good Life as Madam Chairwoman in the episode I talk to the Trees, and To the Manor Born as Dorothy Plunkett.
In later years, Windsor played the Cook in Five Children and It and Connie Davis in Doctors, as well as having a stint in Emmerdale as a senile pensioner.
On the stage, she enjoyed several summer seasons at Gawsworth Hall with one year, as Miss Marple in Murder at the Vicarage.
Other stage credits including Emma Hornet in a national tour of Sailor Beware, Muriel Wicksteed in Habeas Corpus, Mrs Kay in Our Day Out at the Key Theatre, Peterborough and Norma in Not with a Bang at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff.