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'The Honeymooners' actor Joyce Randolph dies at 99

The veteran stage and television actor's role as the savvy Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband.

NEW YORK — Joyce Randolph, a veteran stage and television actress whose role as the savvy Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners provided the perfect foil to her dimwitted TV husband, has died. She was 99.

Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday.

She was the last surviving main character of the

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