Joy Galeotti

Joy Galeotti

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Birth name: Bethany Joy Lenz
Date of birth: 2 April 1981
Place of birth: Hollywood, Florida, USA
Nickname: Joypiter, Joy
Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
Spouse: Michael Galeotti (31 December 2005 – present)

Famous Quote: “I am an actor. God forbid I say this, but I would be doing it for free because I love it. If I could, I’d do this every day of my life. Music’s something I’ll be doing for the rest of my life, whether I’m just playing guitar in my living room or whether I’m playing for 3,000 people. I guess I’ve sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want to be the Queen of England.”

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Bethany Joy Galeotti
c/o Envoy Entertainment
1640 South Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 530
Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA 

Biography:  Bethany Joy Galeotti (born on April 2, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Trained at the Brooklyn College of Opera, Galeotti learned to sing, play guitar and piano, and compose music. As a singer, she has released two independent albums, titled Preincarnate (2002) and Come On Home (2005). As an actress, she is best known for her role as Michelle Bauer Santos on Guiding Light (from 1998 to 2000) and for her role as Haley James Scott on One Tree Hill (since 2003).

Bethany Joy Galeotti (formerly Joy Lenz) was born on April 2, 1981 in Hollywood, Florida. Galeotti is an only child to her father, Robert Lenz, who is a history teacher and therapist, and mother, Cathie, a personnel manager and entrepreneur.

Galeotti’s first solo singing performance was at the age of 3, in front of a crowd of three thousand people at the The Carpenter’s Church in Lakeland, Florida. At the age of four, Galeotti and her family moved to Arlington, Texas. While attending Pope Elementary there, she was bitten by the acting bug. Immediately after, she performed a twenty minute soliloquy part in High HopeS and Heavy Sweatshirts. This was performed in a very intimate setting in a Dallas museum. She then landed her first stage role at age seven, playing a Munchkin in a local production of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

At the age of 10, Galeotti landed the role of Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird” at the Irving Community Theater in Texas. During a trip to Los Angeles with her drama school, she landed her first professional job in a commercial for “Swan Crossing,” a teen series. Subsequently, Galeotti performed in plays such as Annie, Cinderella and in Gypsy: A Musical Fable.

When she was 13, she moved with her family to New Jersey. She immediately began auditioning and quickly became a commercial veteran, appearing in commercials for Eggos Waffles and Dr Pepper. It was at this time that she, still going by the name Joy Lenz, changed it to Joie Lenz, which was also used as her stage name. ‘Joie’ is ‘Joy’ spelled in French with an English pronunciation.

At age 15, (during her sophomore year in high school) Galeotti appeared in her first film, Stephen King’s Thinner. Her performance was well-noted in reviews, particularly in the Associated Press: “One of the highlights of the film was a joy Joy Lenz.”

In March 1998, at 17, she earned a nine episode gig in CBS’s soap opera Guiding Light where she first appeared as the teenaged clone of Reva Shayne. Galeotti made such an impression on viewers, critics and Guiding Light executives alike that she was later recast as Michelle Bauer Santos upon Rebecca Budig’s exit. This was an unusual move and “unheard of” in the industry according to CBS producer Mickey Dwyer-Dobbin.

In November 1998, Galeotti began acting in one of her most popular roles to date, as Michelle Bauer Santos. While working on the demanding daytime serial Guiding Light, she graduated from Eastern Christian School in New Jersey in 1999 and landed the role of “Rose Cronin” in Mary & Rhoda. She also appeared in the off-Broadway musical “Foxy Ladies Love/Boogie 70′s Explosion.”

At the time she was juggling a heavy storyline, a television movie, portraying Mary Tyler Moore’s daughter, a one-year run of a New York cabaret and the lead in an independent film. Galeotti was then casted as the lead in a much-anticipated WB pilot which unfortunately never went into production. She had also shot two other pilots, one playing the daughter of Paul Sorvino, and one as the lead in the WB’s 1972.

In October 2000, at the end of her two year contract with Guiding Light, Galeotti chose to leave her popular role. Since then, she had a co-starring role in the independent film The End Of August. She then moved from New York City to Los Angeles where she performed in a theatre production of The Outsiders, and also guest-starred on many shows such as Off-Centre, Charmed, Felicity, Maybe It’s Me and The Guardian.

In 2003, at age 22, Galeotti was cast in the WB’s television series One Tree Hill as Haley James, the quintessential girl-next-door, who is best friends with Lucas Scott, portrayed by Chad Michael Murray, and Nathan Scott’s wife, portrayed by James Lafferty.] Upon entering the role of Haley James, Galeotti replaced actress Samantha Shelton’s character, Reagan. Approximately around the same time in which she was cast as Haley James, she once again used her original name, Bethany Joy Lenz.

In 2004, Galeotti joined the cast of Bring It On Again, where she turned in an unforgettable performance as Marni Potts.[8] During this time, Galeotti was also featured in Interview Magazine’s “Stars On The Rise” in January.

Galeotti has proven herself not only as a talented actress, but as a musician and a singer. She has a four-octave range,[9] and since her exit from Guilding Light has completed a demo of original music and continues to write screenplays.

Galeotti has recorded two independent records to date. Her first album, entitled Preincarnate, was released in October 2002. In March 2005, she embarked on a month-long music tour with Tyler Hilton, The Wreckers (Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp), and Gavin DeGraw to promote One Tree Hill, where she performed some of her original songs from her second independent record. This second album, titled Come On Home, was sold at the concert venues. During her time off tour, Lenz filmed a video for her song, “Songs In My Pockets”, at Coney Island Beach and Astroland in Brooklyn, New York. Galeotti has performed her own rendition of the National Anthem at various charity events, including James Lafferty’s Annual Basketball Game. This year, 2008, Joy sang the National Anthem once again at the 5th Annual James Lafferty Charity Basketball Game.

In 2006, under the name Haley James Scott, Galeotti recorded the well-known song “Halo”, which was released in the second volume of the One Tree Hill Soundtrack. Alongside producer Ron Aniello (Lifehouse, Guster, Barenaked Ladies), Galeotti has also recorded original material for an album with Epic Records, but is no longer affiliated with them. Galeotti collaborated with Garry Marshall and Carole King on a new musical as well as working with director Arthur Allan Seidelman on a production of “The Outsiders.” In 2006, she wrote and recorded several songs for the soundtrack for Ten Inch Hero.

On December 31, 2005, Bethany Joy Lenz married Enation band member Michael Galeotti. She has two cats, Noah and Allie, named after characters from the The Notebook, and a tattoo of a Humming bird with the word ‘Beloved’. For a time she spelled her name Joy as Joie, to set herself apart.