Joy Bryant

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Summary

Joy Bryant is an American actor and former model known for Antwone Fisher, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, and the television dramas Parenthood and For Life. Her work includes family and relationship stories, including portrayals of single mothers. In a 2016 interview, she criticized persistent racial inequity in Hollywood representation and said that Rosewood’s portrayal of a loving, educated black family was part of its appeal to her. As an Oxfam Sisters on the Planet ambassador, she spoke publicly about climate change’s effects on poor women, traveled to Cambodia with the initiative, and lobbied for disaster policy. No public partisan campaigning or anti-woke statements are on record.