Joey Lynn King was born on July 30 1999 in Los Angeles.
She began acting professionally
at the age of four,
appearing in a commercial for Life cereal in 2003,
as well as ads for Kay jewellers in 2007
and AT&T in 2009.
She even appeared in a commercial for Eggos
in 2005,
proving she's not the only Netflix star
with a taste for frozen waffles.
In February 2006,
she made her first TV appearance
in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
in which she appeared twice as Emily Mason,
a young girl who Zac and Cody have to look after
when they get roped into running a day care centre.
Come on, horsey! Faster!
King's film debut followed in 2007
in Reign Over Me,
in which she briefly appeared as Gina,
the daughter of Adam Sandler's character Charlie.
The same year,
she appeared in Entourage episode "Gotcha!"
as the daughter of UFC fighter Chuck Liddell,
as well as two episodes of
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,
including "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda",
where she plays the daughter of a murdered woman
who holds the key to the investigation.
In 2008,
she played the role of Kelly Mackenzie
in the season four finale of "Medium" Drowned World.
And she followed that with the first of
many voice-over jobs,
playing the role of Katie, an abnormal yellow yak
with frightening teeth,
in Horton Hears a Who!
In my world, everyone's a pony
and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies.
In 2010, she featured as Cassidy
in two episodes of Ghost Whisperer
and landed her biggest role to date the same year,
playing the lead in Elizabeth Allen's 2010 film
Ramona and Beezus alongside Selena Gomez.
It's picture perfect, right?
Let's be realistic, Ramona.
This is a curling iron, not a magic wand.
King starred as Ramona,
an adventurous, imaginative third grader
whose attempts to solve her family and friends' problems
seem to backfire spectacularly.
King also released a single to accompany the movie
called "Ramona Blue".
Two more movies followed in 2011.
She played the role of Kirsten
in Jonathan Liebesman's alien invasion sci-fi
Battle Los Angeles
and she featured as Molly
in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa's romantic comedy
Crazy, Stupid, Love
as Julianne Moore's daughter.
She even found time to appear in the music video
for Taylor Swift's "Mean".
But all you are is mean
In 2012,
she landed her first main role in a TV show
as Charlie in Bent,
an NBC sitcom starring Amanda Peet,
and she also featured as Brianna
in New Girl episode "Bully".
Your happiness seems like a mask.
She got in her biggest film to date the same year,
playing a young Talia al Ghul
in Christopher Nolan's third Batman film:
The Dark Knight Rises.
2013 turned out to be
an especially busy cinematic year for King.
She played Christine Perron
in James Wan's The Conjuring,
one of five daughters assailed
by supernatural forces
in a sinister Rhode Island farmhouse.
Another voice role followed in Sam Raimi's
Oz the Great and Powerful,
in which she played the role of a living doll
called China Girl.
In 2014,
King had a recurring role as Greta Grimly,
the daughter of troubled Duluth police deputy Gus
in critically acclaimed crime drama Fargo.
And she also had a role in Zach Braff's
Wish I Was Here,
a comedy drama in which she plays Grace,
the 12-year-old daughter of Aidan and Sarah Bloom.
More horror lurked in the shadows
with 2018's Slender Man,
a Sylvain White film
based on the viral creepy pasta story
from the Something Awful internet forum.
King played the lead role of Wren,
a Massachusetts girl who makes the mistake of
summoning the eponymous monster.
A more cerebral psychological horror role
followed in Veena Sud's The Lie,
a remake of 2015 German film We Monsters.
King co-stars as Kayla Logan,
a girl who finds herself trapped in a chilling lie
when her parents try to cover up a fatal accident.
King made her Netflix debut in 2018
with The Kissing Booth.
King stars as Elle Evans,
a positive, quirky teenager
whose budding romance with bad boy Noah
puts her lifelong friendship with his younger brother Lee
in peril.
It's one of the most re-watched films on Netflix,
with one in three viewers
diving back in for another helping,
and it also bagged King
a Favourite Actress Kids' Choice Award
for her portrayal of Elle.
Oh no!
King landed two more TV roles in 2019.
She appeared in three episodes of Life In Pieces
as Morgan, a pregnant 17 year old from Modesto,
which also features her older sister Hunter.
And then she starred in
award-winning true crime drama The Act,
based on the real-life case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
King plays Gypsy, a chronically ill girl
whose relationship with her over-protective mother
takes a dark turn
when she learns her illness was fabricated:
a case of fictitious disorder imposed on another
or, as it's more commonly known,
Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
It was a critically acclaimed performance
and King was nominated for an Emmy, Critics Choice
and Golden Globe.
2020 brought us a second Kissing Booth movie
in which King reprised her role as Elle,
and a third and final instalment
of the film trilogy
is available to watch on Netflix now.
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