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Joyce Monroe is a character in Edward Scissorhands and the movie's secondary antagonist. Joyce is friends with Peg Boggs, Helen and Marge. However, when Peg isn’t around, they gossip behind her back on the phones.
She is portrayed by Kathy Baker.
Personality
Joyce is an active and seductive woman in her early 40s, who craves excitement, sex and attention from men. She’s the leader of a group of nosy housewives who trade in gossip and spread rumors.
Physical Appearance
She wears a mint green coat with tight high-waisted mint green pants through out a lot of the film. She also has long red nails, wears a lot of makeup and has red hair.
In the film, it’s shown that she invites men over like a plumber, despite being married. She is one of the people that Peg visited trying to sell her makeup products. She then berates Peg for “interrupting“ her. When Peg brought Edward, she immediately developed a crush on him. When she got him alone in her beauty salon, she tried to seduce him but...
•She has some similarities as Blanche Deveraux from Golden Girls. Both are women who wear a lot of makeup, tight outfits, speak with Southern accents and love attention from men.
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Baker also has appeared in over 50 films, including Jacknife (1989), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Cider House Rules (1999), Cold Mountain (2003), Nine Lives (2005), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Last Chance Harvey (2008), Take Shelter (2011), Saving Mr. Banks (2013), and The Age of Adaline (2015).
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- Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp had career momentum when he stepped into the memorable makeup of Edward Scissorhands. He had roles in Nightmare on Elm Street and Platoon, but in 1987 he became a household name when he began his stint on the TV series 21 Jump Street.
- Winona Ryder as Kim. Edward Scissorhands was not Winona Ryder’s first time in the world of Tim Burton; she had starred in 1988's Beetlejuice, which was her breakout role.
- Dianne Wiest as Peg. Dianne Wiest was well known as a stage actres (in 1982, she performed in Three Sisters and in 1985 appeared in Othello alongside James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer) before landing the role of Peg in Edward Scissorhands.
- Anthony Michael Hall as Jim. Anthony Michael Hall was one of the biggest stars of the '80s, with roles in National Lampoon's Vacation, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science, when he landed the role of Kim’s boyfriend, Jim.
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52 Videos. 99+ Photos. For someone who has made an award-winning impact in all three mediums (stage, film and TV), actress Kathy Baker has been strangely denied all-out stardom, yet continues to demonstrate her versatility in whatever material comes her way. The comely blonde was born Katherine Whitton Baker in Midland, Texas, to Helene Andree ...
