Who is Joy Marchenko?
Joy Marchenko is well known for being the second ex-wife of Dean Stockwell, also known as Robert Dean Stockwell. Dean Stockwell was an American actor best remembered for his work on the Quantum Leap series. He died on November 7, 2021, at the age of 85, of natural causes. Not much is known about the life of Joy Marchenko, as she prefers to keep her personal information private.
Joy Marchenko’s career is unknown, but according to some sources, she is a textile expert who worked in Morocco. Her net worth is unknown; however, her husband, Dean Stockwell, has a net worth estimated to be about two million dollars.
Joy and her late ex-husband, Robert Dean Stockwell, gave birth to two children named Sophia Stockwell and Austin Stockwell. Austin was born on November 5, 1983, and Sophia was born on August 5, 1985. These are the few pieces of information known about their personal lives; they want to keep a low profile.
Joy Marchenko and Robert Dean Stockwell met in 1980 and dated for a year before getting married in 1981, December 15, to be precise. Sources say they, however, split up in the year 2004 before Robert’s death. On April 15, 1960, Stockwell wed actress Millie Perkins; however, the union ended in divorce two years later, in 1962. They didn’t welcome any kids into their marriage. It was after some years that he met Joy Marchenko.
Who was Dean Stockwell, Joy’s ex-husband?
Joy Marchenko’s ex-husband Robert Dean Stockwell was born on March 5, 1936, in the Los Angeles suburb of North Hollywood and raised there and in New York City. Robert Stockwell comes from a long line of entertainers. He is the younger child of Elizabeth “Betty” Stockwell and Harry Stockwell, a lyric baritone vocalist and actor who has been in the New York City productions of Carousel and Oklahoma! and provided the voice of Prince Charming in the Disney movie Snow White.
American actor Robert Dean Stockwell made over 70 film and television appearances. He first came to prominence as a child actor in movies like Kim, Anchors Aweigh, The Green Years, Gentleman’s Agreement, and all of them while he was still under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Joy Marchenko’s ex-husband Dean Stockwell had a successful and lengthy career spanning decades. He experienced highs and lows in his acting career, but he always picked it back up after a hiatus. Along with his acting career, Stockwell also had a successful artistic career.
In Taos in 2009, he displayed collage and sculptural pieces. Stockwell’s wife announced that he had quit acting in 2017 after his stroke in 2015 and recovered from it. Some estimates estimate Dean Stockwell’s net worth to be $2 million as of 2021.
Joy Marchenko’s ex-husband played Edmund Tyrone in the 1962 film adaptation of Long Day’s Journey into Night, for which he won the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival. As a young adult, he appeared in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 film adaptations of Compulsion. He had supporting roles in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), To Live and Die in Los Angeles (1985), To Live and Die in Paris (1984), Dune (1984), and Paris, Texas (1984).
Joy Marchenko was convicted of bias crime.
In August 2019, Dean Stockwell’s ex-wife, Joy, was convicted of second-degree intimidation, which is regarded as a bias crime, according to the laws of the state of Oregon. The incident that led to her conviction happened in South Portland, where both she and the victim have lived for a long time.
According to the case report, Joy Marchenko saw a black woman with a white baby in a stroller. The fact that a black woman had a white baby made Joy furious, so she kicked the stroller, which made the baby cry for a long time.
At first, Joy denied the allegation but later admitted it due to video surveillance. It was later revealed that she did that under the influence of alcohol and was sentenced to thirty days in prison and a year of probation.
Joy currently lives in South Portland, Oregon. She had been out of the limelight since her divorce from Dean Stockwell.