Fact File

Full Name: Bethany Joy Galeotti
Nick Name(s): Joy, Joie, Joypiter
Birthday: April 2, 1981
Birth Location: Hollywood, Florida, USA
Star Sign: Aries
Husband: Michael Galeotti
Parents: Bob and Cathi Lenz
Siblings: 1 Half-Sister

• Joy has a tattoo on the top of her right foot of a hummingbird. She got it just before graduation and says it is very personal to her.

• Joy often wears a gold ring on her pink finger.

• As a child, Joy did commercials for Eggo waffles, Dr. Pepper, and Swan's Crossings dolls.

• In 2004, she was nominated for Teen Choice Awards in the categories for best TV sidekick, Choice Fresh Face and Breakout TV Star.

• She starred in British's boy band 5ive's pop video When the Lights Go Out.

• She had a journal on AOL.com before starting her very own at bethanyjoylenz.com.

• She once said brown hair makes her bitchy.

• Joy is the second actor in daytime television history to take on the role of two distinctively different non-related characters on the same show. She played the roles of Reva Clone and Michelle Bauer Santos in Guiding Light.General Hospital's Anthony Geary is the first actor.

• Since leaving Guiding Light in 2000, Joy has kept in touch with co-stars Tammy Blanchard (Drew) and Paul Anthony Stewart (Danny).

• In 2005, Joy said in an interview that she doesn't like her calves.

• Joy enjoys knitting.

• She enjoys horseback riding, playing piano and guitar and writing new music.

• Bethany has a 13 year old step-sister, who is not allowed to watch her on the CW's One Tree Hill.

• Joy is also a talented musician and singer with a four-octave range.

• Bethany is also an accomplished singer trained in New York by Richard Barrett, the director of the Brooklyn College of Opera, and in Los Angeles by renowned voice teacher Eric Vetro (Jennifer Garner, John Stamos, Ewan McGregor).

• Bethany's original music has been inspired mostly by artists such as Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Fiona Apple and Billy Joel.

• She did her very own podcast in 2006.

• Joy made a music video for her song Songs In My Pockets, often known to fans as SIMP.

• One summer Bethany crawled on her stomach for 40 feet through a tiny tunnel between caverns in Geronimo's Cave in Arizona.

• Bethany appeared in the off-Broadway musical "Foxy Ladies Love/Boogie 70's Explosion".

• Bethany Joy was on tour with Tyler Hilton, The Wreckers and Gavin Degraw in 2005.

• Joie constantly changed the spelling of her names in her teens.

• Her prized possession is her journal.

• Joy has a springer spaniel named Scout and two cats named Noah and Allie. She is also a big fan of The Notebook.

• She is 5'3" tall.

• Loves drinking cappuccino.

• Once showed on Tyler TV how to make guaccamole with sugar.

• Joy's pet peeves are when people chew with their mouth open and barcodes on glass.

• She loves TV shows such as Lost, I Love Lucy, Arrested Development, Prison Break, Joan of Arcadia and I Dream of Jeanie.

• Wrote her first song when she was around four years old.

• Favorite movies include The Princess Bride, The Notebook, Braveheart and Equilibrium.

• She landed her first role at age 7 as a Munchkin in an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.

• Favorite dessert is Creme brulee and sticky rice with mango.

• Her favorite thing to drink is Hot Earl Grey tea with honey and milk.

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