Joy Bryant Biography
Joy Bryant is an actress, businesswoman, and fashion model from the United States. Since beginning her acting career in 2001, she has appeared in numerous films and television shows. She has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards and one Screen Actors Guild Award.
How old is Joy Bryant? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 18 October 2021. She was born in 1974 in New York, New York, United States.
Joy Bryant Family – Education
Her grandmother raised her and supported her on welfare. She began dancing at the age of three. Bryant would later reveal that she was conceived as a result of an older adult male’s sexual assault on her mother, who was fifteen years old at the time of her birth. She attended CJHS 145x in the Bronx and was a member of the Fieldston Enrichment Program, an elite high school preparatory program. Bryant attended Westminster School in Simsbury, Connecticut, a boarding school. Bryant was a gifted student who earned a scholarship to Yale University after graduating from Westminster. She studied for two years before dropping out to pursue a modeling career. Bryant’s grandmother passed away during her first year at Yale.
Is Joy Bryant still married? – Husband
Bryant was engaged to stuntman Dave Pope, whom she met on the set of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, according to OK! magazine in October 2007. They married in the Hamptons on June 28, 2008. In Glendale, California, she owns a ranch house. Bryant lived in Glendale with her husband as of 2014.
Joy Bryant Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Joy Bryant 50 Cent
She appeared in several high-profile films in 2005, including the horror film The Skeleton Key and the drama films London and Get Rich or Die Tryin’, in which she played 50 Cent’s childhood sweetheart.
Joy Bryant Modeling
Bryant was discovered by a modeling scout from Next Model Management while a student at Yale and was chosen to appear in Seventeen magazine’s “Back to School” issue shortly after. In Paris, she began her career as a fashion model. She has modeled for Gap, Victoria’s Secret, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Rocawear. Bryant signed a multi-year contract with CoverGirl in 2006. She has walked the Tommy Hilfiger and Givenchy runways. Bryant and Derek Luke co-hosted BET’s Rip the Runway fashion show in 2009.
Teen Vogue, Complex, Lonny, Domino, and Rolling Out have all featured her on their covers. She has appeared in InStyle, Paper, Vanity Fair, Vibe, Playboy, Stuff, and Celebrity Skin photo shoots.
Joy Bryant For Life
She appeared as Marie Wallace, Aaron’s wife, who has entered into a new relationship with Darius, one of his friends in the American legal drama television series For Life. Although she sympathizes with her husband’s situation, she also feels compelled to move on and leave him in the past. The story revolves around Aaron Wallace, who was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he did not commit. Wallace becomes a lawyer while incarcerated and works as a defense attorney for others while attempting to have his own sentence overturned. The series is loosely based on Isaac Wright Jr.’s life.
Joy Bryant Good Girls Revolt
She appeared as Eleanor Holmes Norton in the American period drama streaming television series Good Girls Revolt. The series follows a group of young female writers at the fictitious News of the Week magazine during the revolutionary times of the women’s movement (representing the real Newsweek). Many female researchers are more talented and educated than their male counterparts (reporters), and they produce original writing that the reporters then incorporate, more or less directly, into their stories. However, there is also the issue of their writing not being acknowledged.
Joy Bryant Parenthood
She stars as Jasmine Trussell in Parenthood. Jasmine Trussell-Braverman is the wife of Crosby Braverman and the mother of Jabbar Trussell-Braverman and Aida Braverman. She also works as a professional dancer and teacher. Jasmine and Crosby meet for the first time years after they hooked up. She catches him off guard by introducing him to their son, Jabbar, whom she has kept hidden from him for the past five years. To avoid disappointing Jabbar’s parents, they keep their relationship a secret from him. Crosby proposes to Jasmine in the Halloween episode, and she accepts. Crosby realizes during wedding planning that Jasmine makes all of the decisions for the two of them.
Joy Bryant Movies
♦ 2015 – The Advocate
♦ 2014 – About Last Night
♦ 2012 – Hit and Run
♦ 2011 – The Chicken Shack
♦ 2009 – Virtuality
♦ 2008 – Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
♦ 2007 – The Hunting Party
♦ 2006 – Bobby
♦ 2005 – Rhythm City Volume One: Caught Up (Video)
♦ 2005 – The Skeleton Key
♦ 2005 – London
♦ 2005 – Get Rich or Die Tryin’
♦ 2004 – Spider-Man 2
♦ 2004 – Three Way
♦ 2004 – Haven
Joy Bryant TV Shows
♦ 2020–21 – For Life
♦ 2019–20 – Trinkets
♦ 2018 – Ballers
♦ 2017 – Girls
♦ 2017 – What Would Diplo Do?
♦ 2016 – Rosewood
♦ 2015–16 – Good Girls Revolt
♦ 2011 – Love Bites
♦ 2010–15 – Parenthood
♦ 2008 – Entourage
♦ 2008 – The Rachel Zoe Project
♦ 2003–04 – ER
