Joey King facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Joey King
King in 2013
Born	Joey Lynn King (1999-07-30) July 30, 1999 (age 26) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2006–present
Spouse(s)	Steven Piet ​ (m. 2023)​
Relatives	Hunter King (sister)

Joey Lynn King (born July 30, 1999) is an American actress who has starred in many popular movies and TV shows. She is well-known for playing Ramona Quimby in the movie Ramona and Beezus (2010). She became even more famous for her leading role in The Kissing Booth film series from 2018 to 2021.

Joey received high praise from critics for her role as Gypsy-Rose Blanchard in the TV series The Act (2019). Her performance was so good that she was nominated for major awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

You might also recognize her from movies like Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Conjuring (2013), and White House Down (2013). More recently, she starred in the action movie Bullet Train (2022) and the animated film Despicable Me 4 (2024).

Early Life and Starting Out

Joey King was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 30, 1999. She grew up with two older sisters, and one of them, Hunter King, is also an actress.

Joey started her acting career when she was only four years old. Her first job was in a commercial for Life Cereal. She also appeared in ads for other big companies like AT&T and Eggo. As a child, she loved performing and was part of a children's theater group.

Acting Career

From Child Star to Teen Icon

Joey's first movie was Reign Over Me in 2007. Soon after, she voiced the character Katie in the animated movie Horton Hears a Who! (2008). She also appeared in many TV shows, including The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

In 2010, she landed her first lead role as the fun-loving Ramona Quimby in Ramona and Beezus. This role was based on the popular children's books by Beverly Cleary. Her performance won her a Young Artist Award. The next year, she appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift's song "Mean".

Over the next few years, Joey acted in several major films. She played a young Talia al Ghul in the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises (2012). She also had roles in the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) and the scary movie The Conjuring (2013). In 2014, she joined the cast of the TV series Fargo as Greta Grimly.

Stardom with 'The Kissing Booth' and 'The Act'

In 2018, Joey became a huge star with the Netflix romantic comedy The Kissing Booth. She played the main character, Elle Evans. The movie was so popular that it led to two sequels, The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and The Kissing Booth 3 (2021).

A year later, in 2019, Joey took on a very different and challenging role in the true-crime TV series The Act. She played Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, a real person whose life story was very complicated. To look like the character, Joey had to shave her head. Her acting in the show was incredible and earned her nominations for some of the biggest awards in television.

In 2023, she appeared in another Taylor Swift music video, this time for the song "I Can See You."

Personal Life

In 2019, Joey King started dating director Steven Piet, whom she met while filming The Act. The couple got engaged in February 2022 and were married on September 2, 2023, in Mallorca, Spain.

Joey also uses her fame to help others. She signed an open letter to the U.S. President, asking for help to free hostages who were taken during the October 7 attacks.

Filmography

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Horton Hears a Who!	Katie (voice)
	Quarantine	Briana
2010	Ramona and Beezus	Ramona Quimby
2011	Battle: Los Angeles	Kirsten
	Crazy, Stupid, Love	Molly Weaver
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Young Talia al Ghul	Cameo
2013	The Conjuring	Christine Perron
	Family Weekend	Lucinda Smith-Dungy
	Oz the Great and Powerful	China Girl / Girl in wheelchair
	White House Down	Emily Cale
2014	The Boxcar Children	Jessie Alden (voice)
	The Sound and the Fury	Miss Quentin
	Wish I Was Here	Grace Bloom
2015	Borealis	Aurora
	Stonewall	Phoebe Winters
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence	Sam Blackwell
2017	Going in Style	Brooklyn Harding
	Smartass	Freddie
	Wish Upon	Clare Shannon
2018	The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island	Jessie Alden (voice)
	The Kissing Booth	Elle Evans
	The Lie	Kayla Logan
	Radium Girls	Bessie Cavallo
	Summer '03	Jamie Winkle
	Slender Man	Wren
2019	Zeroville	Zazi
2020	The Kissing Booth 2	Elle Evans	Also executive producer
2021	The Kissing Booth 3	Elle Evans	Also executive producer
2022	The In Between	Tessa	Also producer
	The Princess	The Princess	Also executive producer
	Bullet Train	Malen'kiy Prints / The Prince
2024	Despicable Me 4	Poppy Prescott (voice)
	Camp	Sarah	Also co-producer
	A Family Affair	Zara Ford
	Uglies	Tally Youngblood	Also executive producer
2026	Practical Magic 2	Kylie Owens	Filming

Television

Music videos

Awards and Nominations

See also

In Spanish: Joey King para niños