Acting Your Age Hollywood is calling! Joy Perry
Dreams have no expiration date.
Story reprinted from our Fall 2020 Print Issue
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Casting call: Acting experience is strongly preferred, but amateurs will be considered. You should be a 55+ female for consideration. The character is a female, 60s, funny, sharp and full of life. When Joy Perry read the casting call for the Hallmark movie, “The Christmas Bow,” she thought, “I’m a 57-year-old, funny, sharp, full-of-life amateur. I fit all the criteria!” Hallmark said the character, Tess, also suffered from a neuropathological disease, and Perry fit that description, too. Proving that dreams have no expiration date, here is Joy Perry’s inspiring story of how a 57-year-old Winter Springs, Florida, woman, with an untreatable, incurable diagnosis, performed the role of a lifetime. *****
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