Joy Behar Bio, Net Worth, Age, Height, Husband, Ethnicity, Children, Parents

Josephine Victoria known by her career name as Joy Behar is an American comedian, television host, actress, and writer. She became popular after being the co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The View. Read the article below to know more about Joy Behar.

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Joy Behar Biography

Joy Behar born Josephine Victoria Occhiuto was born on the 7th of October 1942 in New York City. She is currently 80 years old and would turn 81 on the 7th of October 2023. She is well-educated and had her degree at Queens College Stony Brook University. She has married twice in her life and is currently with her second husband. She got married in the year 1965 and divorced in 1981 and later dated Steve Janowitz for 30 years before getting married to him in the year 2011 and since then, they have been together. She has one child and a daughter from her first marriage. She was born to a Roman Catholic family of Italian descent. Her mother Rose was a seamstress, and her father, Gino Occhiuto was a truck driver for Coca-Cola.

Joy Behar Career

Joy Behar is a noted 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 showbiz. After a near-fatal ectopic pregnancy at the age of 37, she became a receptionist at ‘Good Morning America’ in hopes of getting a bigger role.

Concurrently, she started presenting comedy routines in small clubs in New York, before getting a foothold in more well-known clubs. She was creating quite a buzz on the comedy scene in New York and by the age of 44, she started appearing on television. A year later, she got her own show called, ‘Way Off Broadway’. Soon, she was appearing in small roles in TV series, films, and Broadway shows. Behar became a household name in 1997 when she started co-hosting ‘The View’, a role she continues to play even today. Simultaneously, she hosts her own shows and has published five books.

Joy Behar Age

How old is Joy Behar? Josephine Victoria Occhiuto was born on the 7th of October, 1942 in New York City, in the United States. She is currently 80 years of age and is still strong and healthy despite her old age. She will turn 81 years old on October 7th, 2023. She is leaving a good life now and is since on with her career.

Joy Behar Height and Weight

She has a normal stature of a normal human. She has a height of 5 feet and 6 inches, there is no information with regard to her weight. It seems like that attribute of hers isn’t known by the media yet. Joy Behar has a daughter called Eve Behar. She is the daughter she got from her past marriage, currently in her marriage she has no child so Eve remains her only child.

 

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Joy Behar Nationality and Ethnicity

Joy Behar is an American by birth. She has an ancestor who is traced to Italy. Although Behar was her parent’s only child, she was raised in the middle of a very large extended family in Williamsburg. She had a very happy childhood, showing an aptitude for comedy since the age of 2. She is a Christian by religion and not much is known about her ethnicity as to whether she has a mixed descent or whether they are from the same ethnicity or not.

Joy Behar Husband

Who is Joy Behar married to? She has married twice in her life. She married her first husband somewhere in 1965 and later divorced in 1981. She later dated Steve Janowitz for 30 years before finally marrying him in the year 2010. These couples are still married as of now.

Joy Behar Children

Does Joy Behar have children? Joy Behar has only one child as of now. She gave birth to her with her first husband whose name hasn’t been made available to the media yet.

Joy Behar Net Worth

Joy Behar has a net worth of $50 million dollars and is doing well. She is well to do now. She is financially stable and is living the life she has always dreamt about. She owns a company which she also gets income from. She does not depend on her television career for income but she has rather invested in her company in which she is gaining money now.

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