Joyce Randolph, played Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners, dies age 99

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Joyce Randolph, Trixie on ‘The Honeymooners,’ Dies at 99

She was the last surviving member of the sitcom's famous foursome.

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Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie, the wife of Art Carney’s goofy sewer worker Ed Norton, on the classic sitcom The Honeymooners, has died. She was 99.

Randolph, the last surviving member of the famous foursome that also included the stars Jackie Gleason (as Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden) and Audrey Meadows (as Ralph’s level-headed wife, Alice), died Saturday at her home in New York, her son, Randy, told TMZ.

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Though The Honeymooners continued in various forms for years, Randolph never played Trixie for Gleason after the last of the classic 39 episodes. She did portray the character on the quirky 1991-92 ABC sitcom Hi Honey, I’m Home, which also brought back Meadows as Alice.

Joyce Randolph, Trixie on ‘The Honeymooners,’ Dies at 99

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton on 'The Honeymooners,' and was the last surviving member of the cast, died Saturday.

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Born Joyce Sirola to a Finnish American family in Detroit, she got her start in show business when she joined a touring production of “Stage Door” while working at a department store, then moved to New York where she acted in theater and on television in shows such as “Buck Rogers.”

Gleason noticed her in a commercial and cast her in “The Honeymooners” in 1951. It first appeared as a sketch on “Cavalcade of Stars” and “The Jackie Gleason Show,” then ran as a standalone sitcom in 1955 and 1956 on CBS. Though the show produced just 39 episodes, its popularity has endured and it influenced generations of sitcoms with its portrayal of squabbling working class families.