Joey Lawrence

Joey Lawrence earns my respect simply for surviving. A Philadelphia kid who started as a child actor, he managed the rarest trick in the business, crossing the fragile bridge from precocious youngster to working adult performer. Beloved as Joey in Blossom, he kept headlining years later in Melissa & Joey, while also writing songs, composing, and studying at the University of Southern California. I am charmed too by the detail that he shared the screen with his real brothers, a sign of a family that sharpened its craft together. He may never have been flashy, but he is a tenacious industry lifer, and I like that.

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Name (English)

Joey Lawrence

Name (Japanese)

ジョーイ・ローレンス

Reading

じょーい・ろーれんす

Born

April 20, 1976 (age 50)

Origin

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

musician / singer-songwriter / composer / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dragon

University

University of Southern California

• Official sitehttps://theofficialjoeylawrence.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey%20Lawrence
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550395

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• musician
• singer-songwriter
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.