Joy Behar Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Husband, Height, Weight, Career, Net worth, Nationality

Joy Behar Wiki- Bio

Josephine Victoria, known by her career name as Joy Behar, is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. She rose to popularity after co-hosting the ABC daytime talk show The View.

Josephine Victoria Occhiuto was born on October 7, 1942 in New York City. She is currently 80 years old and would be 81 on October 7, 2023. She is well educated and earned her degree from Queens College Stony Brook University. She has been married twice in her life and is currently with her second husband. She was married in 1965 and divorced in 1981 and then dated Steve Janowitz for 30 years before marrying him in 2011 and they have been together ever since. She has a son and a daughter from her first marriage. She was born into a Roman Catholic family of Italian descent. Her mother, Ella Rose, was a seamstress and her father, Gino Occhiuto, was a Coca-Cola trucker.

Age

Joy Behar is 80 years old.

Height and weight

Joy Behar has a height of 5 feet 6 inches, there is no information regarding her weight.

Career

Joy Behar is a prominent American comedian, actress, talk show host, and writer. She has hosted several talk shows on TV namely ‘The View’, ‘The Joy Behar Show’ and ‘And Joy Behar: Say Anything! And ‘Late Night Joy’. She was a high school English teacher before joining show business. After a near-fatal ectopic pregnancy at the age of 37, she became a receptionist on ‘Good Morning America’ in hopes of landing a bigger role.

At the same time, she began performing comedy routines in small New York clubs, before establishing herself in more well-known clubs. She was creating quite a stir in the New York comedy scene and, at the age of 44, she began appearing on television. A year later, she got her own show called ‘Way Off Broadway’. She soon appeared in small roles in television series, movies, and Broadway shows. Behar became a household name in 1997 when she began co-hosting ‘The View’, a role she continues to play to this day. At the same time, she hosts her own shows and has published five books.

Net Worth

Joy Behar has a net worth of $50 million and is doing well. She is fine now. She is financially stable and is living the life she has always dreamed of. She owns a company from which she also earns income. She does not depend on her television career for income, but rather she has invested in her company that she is now earning money from.

Nationality

Joy Behar is American by birth. She has an ancestor that goes back to Italy. She is a Christian by religion and not much is known about her ethnicity.