[2] Joy graduated from Stanford University and worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles before attending Harvard Law School.

[4] While studying for the bar, Joy submitted a sample script for the ABC fantasy comedy-drama series Pushing Daisies.

[5] The series focuses on "a futuristic theme park gone wrong where robots start rebelling against humans".

Joy, along with her husband Jonathan Nolan, signed a new deal with Amazon to write and produce a series for the company.

[8] Joy's feature film debut, Reminiscence, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in US cinemas on August 20, 2021, to mixed reviews and was a commercial failure.