Joy Bryant came to life on October 18, 1974 and is a Native American. She is known for her work in acting. She was born in The Bronx, New York USA to her parents whom she was not very close or fond of. She was taken care of by her Grandmother from the very early age. Joy was much talented and she is often referred to as ‘Beauty with Brains’. She is known to be very beautiful with slim body and attractive personality. She has featured in the list of Top Sexy women in USA on TV. She was also a very intelligent student and she was awarded full scholarship for her graduation because of her intelligence and performance in studies. Joy did her high school from ‘Westminster School’ and performed excellently there. Later on she did her graduation from ‘Yale University’ on full scholarship. Bryant is married to her present husband, David Pope, who is a stuntman by profession. They were alleged to have an affair for long time, post which they got engaged and subsequently married in a private wedding. Bryant and Pope married in 2008. Joy is also involved in philanthropic work like she is associated with an organization called ‘Oxfam’s sister on Plant’ which is involved in fighting various social evils like hunger, poverty and many more. Bryant is also known to very outspoken and doesn’t hide her feelings often. She recently wrote a blog over the model and TV Host ‘Tyra Banks’ over her weaved hair and how she felt about that. The article got much publicized and got both positive and negative comments from the readers.
Joy started her career as a model and she did modelling for various major brands on Television. She signed up several contracts with prestigious brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Gap, Victoria’s Secret. She also performed as the lead performers as well as in guest appearances in various music songs and albums. She started acting with a small role in a movie named ‘Carmen: A Hip Hopera’. She did another short cameo in a comedy movie named ‘Showtime’ but got her first major role in the movie ‘Antwone Fisher’ in 2002. Later on she acted in a series of movies and TV Shows like ‘London’, ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, ‘The Skeleton Key’ and ‘Will Do’. Her biggest blockbuster role came in the TV series ‘Parenthood’ where she played the role of Jasmine Trussell and the show is still being aired on TV. Her performance in the role was much appreciated and she established herself as the mainstream actor because of this role.
Joy has been nominated multiple times for various awards and recognitions. She was nominated twice in 2003 and 2005 for the Best Supporting actress in the Black Reel awards. She has also been nominated twice as the outstanding supporting actress in two other awards in 2007 and 2013 respectively. Joy has a total net worth of $ 2 million which is projected to increase in the years to come because of her involvement currently in the TV series ‘Parenthood’ and movies to come.
| Birth Date: | 18 Oct, 1974 |
| Age: | 45 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Model Film actor Television actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | New York City |
| Education: | Yale University |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American actress and model |
| Twitter Id: | Realjoybryant |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |
