{{Short description|English actress (born 1969)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}}
{{Infobox person |name = Joy Brook |image = |caption = |birth_name = Joy Beadle |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1969|5|9}} |birth_place = Scarborough, England |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = Actress }}
'''Joy Brook''' (born '''Joy Beadle''',<ref>{{cite news | url=http://archive.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/2001/10/15/157125.html | newspaper=Darlington & Stockton Times | accessdate=4 May 2009 | date=15 October 2001 | title=Joy just loves mixing it with the lads }}</ref> 9 May 1969) is an English actress who played Detective Constable Kerry Holmes in ''The Bill'' and Joanne Pearson in ''Peak Practice''. She has also appeared in ''The Thin Blue Line'', ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' episode "Under World", ''Dream Team'' and ''Doctors''.
She has been in the short ''Maltesers'' sponsor films that accompany ''Loose Women'' on ''ITV''. She was in the short ''Go Compare'' adverts on TV, and appeared as Dr Melville in ''Emmerdale'' on 12 January 2018.
==Personal life== In January 1999, she revealed that she was bisexual and had been sexually involved with women since she was 21.<ref>"My real gay lust by Bill beauty Joy" by Lucia Green, ''Daily Star'' 20 January 1999</ref> At the time her ''Bill'' character was having a lesbian fling while working undercover in a prison. "My mother told the whole town I was a lesbian and she was proud of me. My girlfriend was accepted as part of the family."<ref>"My real gay lust by Bill beauty Joy" by Lucia Green, ''Daily Star'' 20 January 1999</ref> The relationship lasted two years. A four-year relationship with Roger May (b. 1966) ended around the same time that Joy revealed her bisexuality.<ref>"AC/DC WPC gave her boyfriend the big E" – David Brown, ''Sunday People'', 24 January 1999</ref>
She is the great-niece of Tottenham Hotspur manager Bill Nicholson.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7094703.one-woman-four-men-night-drama/ | accessdate=4 May 2009 | date=26 October 2001 | title=One woman, four men: night of drama | newspaper=The Northern Echo }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0111636}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brook, Joy}} Category:English soap opera actresses Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:English bisexual actresses Category:English television actresses Category:Actresses from Scarborough, North Yorkshire Category:LGBTQ people from Yorkshire Category:20th-century English actresses Category:21st-century English actresses