Joey Lawrence Bio, Age, Height, Family, Relationship, Career, Net Worth, Movies, TV Shows

Joey Lawrence an American actor.

Joey Lawrence Biography

Joseph Lawrence Mignogna Jr. is an American actor, musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and game show host. Him being well recognized for his role as Joey Russo in Blossom and Joey Longo in Melissa & Joey, he is best known for getting his star as a child star in the early 1980s. Joseph also starred in Gimme a Break, and the series Brotherly Love with the real-life brothers Mathew and Andrew.

How old is Joey Lawrence? – Age

The star is 46 years old as of 20 April, 2022. He was born on 20 April, 1976, in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Joey Lawrence Height

Joey stands at a height of 5feet 8inches tall.

Who are Joey Lawrence Parents? – Family

The actor was born to Donna Lynn, a personnel manager, and Joseph Lawrence Mignogna Sr. an Insurance broker. Lawrence is of Italian, English and Scottish descent. Him being in a well supportive family, it has help him so much achieve much during his childhood times and even now. Including him, they are all three brother, him, Andrew and Matthew.

Does Joey Lawrence has a wife? – Relationship

Currently Joey is happily married to actress Samantha Cope. Whom he had announced in August 2021, that he had been engaged with. The couple married in California. Both had met on the set of a Lifetime movie directed by his brother Andrew and co-starring his daughter Charleston. But before the actor got married to Samantha, it believed that he had been in two other relationships, in which they didn’t turn out very well.

So the first wife he married was Michelle Vella, which was in 2002, but the couple divorced in 2005. Then later Lawrence met with Chandie Yawn-Nelson, earlier while on vacation in Disney World when the two were teenagers. The couple wed there in July 2005. According to reports, it stated that in July 2017, the two had filed for bankruptcy. Though later on the issue was resolved and the case was reportedly settled. Although in July 2020, even after the issued was taken care of, still Joey filed for a divorce. In also believed that the couple had two children on board.

Joey Lawrence Career

Acting Career

On acting, his first acting role was in a Cracker Jack commercial. That was at the age of five, when he also appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where he performed the song Give My Regards to Broadway. Lawrence won the role of Joey Donovan on the hit NBC sitcom Gimme a Break in 1983, after him appearing in a guest spots on Different Strokes and Silver Spoons. The role he won for, the actor continued playing it until the series ended in 1987. As a protagonist in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company, Joey provided the voice of Oliver at the age of 12. From 1991 to 1995, at the age of 15, the star co-starred in the hit TV series Blossom on NBC, playing Joey Russo.

As the series Brotherly Love is famously known to be featured by his real life brothers, he also starred in it. In 2006, the Joey Donovan role player appeared on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Paired with professional dancer Edyta Sliwinska, he placed third in the competition. Then in May 2007, he starred in the Broadway hit Chicago as Billy Flynn. Two years later, the Disney film protagonist starred in the television film My Fake Fiancé with Melissa Joan Hart, which premiered on ABC Family to 3.6 million viewers, becoming the most watched television film of the ratings season, sweeping top rank in its time-period in key demos. In 2012, at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, he was contracted to be a Chippendale’s dancer for a special engagement. His breakthrough came along when he began appearing in the ABC reality show Splash, co-hosting alongside Charissa Thompson, that being on March 19, 2013.

Music Career

Joseph has said that music was always his passion, and at the height of his success began a recording career. He was 16 when his debut album Joey Lawrence was released in February 1993. Produced by Steve Barri, Tony Peluso, Terry Lupton and Ian Prince. Great job and talent was eventually seen when the songs he made were used as end-title theme in the firms. The Musician released a single, Rolled, which was available as a free download for a one week on ABC Family’s website. Then the next month, he released a second single Give It To Ya via Pledge Music.

Joey Lawrence Net Worth

The songwriter has a net worth of 250,000 dollars.

Joey Lawrence Movies

1985 – Summer Rental

1988 – Pulse

1988 – Oliver & Company

1991 – Chains of Gold

1994 – Radioland Murders

1995 – A Goofy Movie

1999 – Tequila Body Shots

2000 – Urban Legends: Final Cut

2001 – Do You Wanna Know a Secret?

2002 – Trois 2: Pandora’s Box

2006 – Rest Stop

2008 – Killer Pad

2010 – Sinatra Club

2011 – Hit List

2016 – Saved by Grace

2017 – Girl Followed

2018 – Sk8 Dawg

2020 – Money Plane

2020 – My Brother Keeper

2021 – Roe v, Wade

Joey Lawrence TV

1982 – Scamps

1982 – Different Strokes

1983 – Little Shots

1983-1987 – Gimme a Break

1984 – Young People’s Specials

1985 – ABC Afterschool Special

1989 – Adventures in Babysitting

1990-1995 – Blossom

1993 – Almost Home

1995 – Something Wilder

1995-1997 – Brotherly Love

1996 – Brothers of the Frontier

1999 – Horse Sense

2002 – Romantic Comedy 101

2003 – American Dreams

2004 – Love Rules

2005 – Bow

2006 – Android Apocalypse

2007 – CSI: NY

2009 – My Fake Fiancé

2011 – The Dog Who Saved Halloween

2012 – Hitched for the Holidays

2013 – Splash

2015 – Celebrity Family Feud

2016 – Cupcake Wars

2018 – A Mother’s Worst Fear

2019 – Celebrity Big Brother

2021 – Danger Force

2022 – Call Me Kat