Name : Joy Bryant
Date of Birth : 19 October 1976, The Bronx, New York, USA
Height : 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Occupation : Actress
Joy Bryant was born in a modest home in The Bronx, New York and as a young woman, was enrolled in an inner-city outreach organization called "A Better Chance," designed to encourage minority talent. Joy was also blessed with brains as well beauty and remained an excellent student throughout her high school years. As a result, she was awarded a full academic scholarship to Yale University.
Bryant made her onscreen debut in the MTV original telefim "Carmen: A Hip Hopera," opposite Beyonce Knowles and Mekhi Phifer, followed by a small role in the Warner Bros. feature comedy "Showtime" opposite Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro. She caught widespread attention in 2002 after Washington tapped her for the role of Cheryl, the understanding girlfriend of the troubled Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke). Bryant's next role was in Bille Woodruff's music-driven, coming-of-age drama "Honey," playing the best friend of an inner-city woman (Jessica Alba) who fulfills her dream of becoming a video choreographer and is confronted with unsuspecting setbacks. She next appeared in "Baadassss!" (2004), writer-director-star Mario Van Peebles' depiction of his father Melvin's struggles to film the seminal 1971 film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Son," with Bryant lighting up every scene she appeared in as Melvin's secretary Priscilla.
The actress gained more prominence, albeit in a small, but integral role, in the voodoo horror thriller, "The Skeleton Key" (2005), starring Kate Hudson as a hospice worker sent to an isolated plantation in the bayous of Louisiana to care for a speechless invalid (John Hurt). Meanwhile, the forces of evil trapped behind an attic door are unleashed, forcing the hospice worker and her patient to fight, then flee for their lives.
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