Meet Joy Sunday, the actress who plays Bianca Barclay in Netflix’s Wednesday
The 28-year-old was raised in New York and went to the same school as Timothée Chalamet and Nicki Minaj, but says Hollywood is still biased
Following the immense success of Wednesday, Netflix’s TV spin-off of The Addams Family, in 2022, the show has finally returned to our screens. The second season’s part one is now streaming, while part two will air on September 3.
Among the students at Nevermore Academy is the queen bee herself, Bianca Barclay, played by 28-year-old Joy Sunday.
In the first season, we saw Wednesday and Bianca start off on the wrong foot after the former confidently challenged Bianca to a fencing match and lost. This time around, Sunday says we’ll get to see a different side to Bianca.
“I’m really happy that people get to become more intimately acquainted with her history,” she told Glamour earlier this month. “The Bianca that I met when I first got the script versus who she is now – there’s such a difference. In season one, she’s kind of built a wall and acts as if she doesn’t need anything. But now we get to understand … the vulnerability and insecurities that she’s facing.”
Here’s everything to know about Joy Sunday.
Joy Sunday was raised in New York
Born in September 1996, Joy Sunday was raised in Staten Island, New York, by her parents, who moved from Nigeria to the US in the 1970s, per Glamour.
Sunday says her love of performing spawned from her love of reading, which she inherited from her father: “I would read books to imaginary kids in my room,” she told Glamour. “That’s where I learned my first sense of pacing, character, and presence.”