Trivia

After fifty years as a performer, Bruijs was celebrated with a concert at De Doelen on May 7, 2017, that featured North Sea Symphonic Bigbad Orchestra.

Joke Bruijs died, three days after ex-husband Gerard Cox.

At the age of 70, she retired from singing and acting in major films and productions due to a cognitive impairment that resulted in memory problems.

In 1970, she competed in the National Song Contest, performing the song "Okido" and placing fourth.

She worked with singer and actor Gerard Cox, and they married. They performed as husband and wife in two Dutch sitcoms: Vreemde praktijken (1989-1993; Strange Practices), followed the next year with the long-running series Toen was geluk heel gewoon (1994-2009; When Happiness Was Very Common). They worked together later, after they were no longer married, in the feature film Casa Coco (2022).

Joke Bruijs was a Dutch comedienne, actress and singer.

In 2003, Bruijs received the Erasmus Medal from the city of Rotterdam for her contributions to culture.

Bruijs donated her body to science, meaning there was no funeral.

From 2007 to 2025, Joke Bruijs was the patron of the Animal Aid Foundation, a volunteer organization that helps animals.

After graduating, she opted for retail school. Bruijs didn't finish any of the courses because she was too busy performing. In 1966, as a thirteen-year-old singer, she joined the Rotterdam pop group The Spitfires, but left in 1968 because she joined the Vara dance orchestra at the age of fifteen.