Joy Randolph Biography
Da’Vine Joy Randolph is an Actress from America whose performance as psychic Oda Mae Brown in the Broadway production of Ghost brought her initial notoriety, and for this role, she was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Randolph won recognition for her appearances in Dolemite Is My Name and The United States vs. Billie Holiday. She then starred in the movies The Angriest Man in Brooklyn and Office Christmas Party.
How old is Joy Randolph? Age
The Dolemite Is My Name actress is 38 years old as of 21 May 2024. She was born in 1986 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Who are the parents of Joy Randolph? Family
Randolph doesn’t have a middle name and pronounces his first name as “Day Vine Joy” with two names. Her parents claimed that she was a wonderful delight and that it had taken them seven years to conceive. Randolph was raised in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood.
Where did Joy Randolph go to college? – Education
Randolph studied theater at Interlochen Arts Camp as a young person. She enrolled at Temple University with the intention of concentrating on opera and classical vocal performance, but in her junior year, she changed her major to musical theater. Following her graduation from Temple, she proceeded to study drama at Yale School. She earned her master’s degree from Yale in 2011. She studied Shakespeare for a summer at the University of Oxford and is now an alumna of the British American Drama Academy (BADA).
Who is Joy Randolph’s partner?
Randolph is unmarried as of 2024 and has never dated.
What is the net worth of Joy Randolph?
Randolph’s net worth stands impressively at $2 million.
Joy Randolph Career
Randolph tried out for an understudy part in the Broadway production of Ghost: the Musical on the West End of London in 2011. The Broadway production of Oda Mae Brown, in which she was cast, debuted on April 23, 2012. Randolph made her feature film debut in Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George in 2013, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She portrayed a nurse in Robin Williams’ comedy-drama The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) the following year.
Selfie, which debuted on September 30, 2014, included Randolph in a key role as Charmonique Whitaker, which helped her gain notoriety. Despite having a cult following, the show was terminated after one season due to mixed reviews. Randolph stated in May 2022 that, if given the chance, she would make a comeback in a motion picture or short-lived television series.
Randolph voiced Christine in the television series The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show from 2015 to 2017. In addition, she appeared in guest roles on Veep, Life in Pieces (2015), See Dad Run (2014), and The Good Wife (2013). She appeared in Office Christmas Party and in the drama series This Is Us in a recurring role as Tanya.For two seasons, from 2016 to 2017, she played a key role in the sitcom People of Earth as postal worker Yvonne Watson.
With her breakthrough performance as Lady Reed in Dolemite Is My Name (2019), Randolph was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the NAACP Image Awards, Black Reel Awards, and the African-American Film Critics Association in 2019. She was a cast member of High Fidelity (2020) and performed in Kajillionaire (2020). She provided the voices for Tina in Chicago Party Aunt (2021–2022), Tuca & Bertie (2021), Ultra City Smiths (2021), Madagascar: A Little Wild (2021–2022), and a number of parts in Birdgirl (2022).
Randolph played cook and grieving mother Mary Lamb in Alexander Payne’s coming-of-age drama The Holdovers in 2021. Pete Hammond from Deadline Hollywood gave her accolades for the picture, which had its world debut at the Telluride picture Festival. The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the BAFTA, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress were among the many honors and accolades she garnered for her performance.
Joy Randolph Movies and TV Credits
Movies
♦ 2023 – Rustin
♦ 2023 – The Holdovers
♦ 2022 – The Lost City
♦ 2022 – A Little White Lie
♦ 2022 – Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
♦ 2022 – On the Come Up
♦ 2021 – The United States vs. Billie Holiday
♦ 2021 – The Guilty
♦ 2020 – Kajillionaire
♦ 2020 – The Last Shift
♦ 2020 – Trolls World Tour
♦ 2020 – Mama Got A Cough
♦ 2019 – Dolemite Is My Name
♦ 2016 – The Secrets of Emily Blair
♦ 2016 – Office Christmas Party
♦ 2014 – The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
♦ 2013 – Mother of George
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Idol
♦ 2022 – Birdgirl
♦ 2021 – Cinema Toast
♦ 2021 – Tuca & Bertie
♦ 2021 – Ultra City Smiths
♦ 2021 – The Last O.G.
♦ 2021–present – Only Murders in the Building
♦ 2021–2022 – Chicago Party Aunt
♦ 2020 – High Fidelity
♦ 2020–2022 – Madagascar: A Little Wild
♦ 2019 – On Becoming a God in Central Florida
♦ 2018 – Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh
♦ 2017 – Veep
♦ 2017–2018 – Empire
♦ 2016 – This Is Us
♦ 2016–2017 – People of Earth
♦ 2015 – Life in Pieces
♦ 2015–2017 – The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show
♦ 2014 – See Dad Run
♦ 2014 – Selfie