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Ella Joyce
Highest Rated: 79% Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Lowest Rated: 2% Nina (2016)
Birthday: Jun 12, 1954
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
This stage-trained black American actress worked Off-Broadway and in regional theater productions for several years before landing the role of Eleanor Emerson, the strong and independent wife of Charles S. Dutton's title character on the Fox sitcom "Roc." Ella Joyce's theater credits include August Wilson's "Two Trains Running" and "Don't Get God Started." Her theater experience provided excellent preparation for the TV series' shift to a live production. Joyce's TV credits have included appearances in several TV-movies--Mike Newell's "Common Ground" (1990) and "Choices" (1986)--and the cable series "Rin Tin Tin." She has attributed her success to changing her name, but her fortunate association with the celebrated playwright August Wilson was probably even more relevant. All three of Joyce's co-stars on "Roc" had appeared in plays written by Wilson and directed by Lloyd Richards. Joyce made her screen debut in the pallid Sylvester Stallone vehicle "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" (1992) and subsequently appeared in the crime drama "Set It Off" (1996).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Catfish Christmas | Helen (Character) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Holiday Hideaway | Rose (Character) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Never and Again | Mrs. Donna (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Men in My Life | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heavenly Deposit | Nurse Williams (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Resolution Song | Edith (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 2% | 25% | Nina | Clifton's Mom (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucky Girl | Melanie Jackson (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 21% | 66% | Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | Sarah (Character) | $52.0M | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Hopelessly in June | Mrs. Myers (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 57% | 64% | Preacher's Kid | Sister Watkins (Character) | $514.5K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | A Simple Promise | Mary (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 4% | Lost Signal | Nancy Caulderbank (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City Teacher | Anita Sawyer (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | Who Made the Potatoe Salad? | Mrs. Jenkins (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 79% | 79% | Bubba Ho-Tep | Nurse (Character) | $891.9K | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away | Juanita (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | Stranger Inside | Doodle Alderidge (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Clockin' Green | Sonya Brignone (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Selma, Lord, Selma | Betty Webb (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 14% | 21% | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | McCabe (Character) | $26.6M | 1992 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | Haus of Vicious | Carolyn (Character) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eve | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | My Wife and Kids | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003-2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the House | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| 89% | 92% | Seinfeld | Dean Jones (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Sabrina, the Teenage Witch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 53% | No Score Yet | Dangerous Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
| 25% | No Score Yet | The Client | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 95% | 79% | NewsRadio | Catherine Duke (Character) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roc | Eleanor Emerson (Character) | 1991-1994 |