Sometime before the start of the series, Joey also had appeared in a porn film, as a fully clothed extra. He started his acting profession doing stage work, introduced in the show's pilot episode by Monica and Chandler having seen Joey in a production of Pinocchio. Joey Tribbiani is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, having refused to follow in his father's foot steps and become a gardener. Consider splitting it into new pages, adding subheadings, or condensing it. In sports, Joey likes the New York Yankees in baseball, Los Angeles Clippers and New York Knicks in basketball, New York Giants and New York Jets in football, and the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers in hockey. He does not like sharing food, especially when it is pizza, and has difficulty with even simple mathematics. He was ordained as a minister in " The One with the Truth About London" and officiated at both Monica and Chandler's and Phoebe and Mike's weddings. As a struggling actor, he is constantly looking for work. He enjoys playing video games and foosball, loves sandwiches and pizza, and is a big fan of Baywatch and Beavis & Butt-head. In contrast to his persona as the "ladies’ man", he has also a marked childish side.
He is a food-loving womanizer who has had more luck with dates than any of the other group members. Joey is portrayed as promiscuous and dim-witted but good-natured, as well as very loyal, caring, and protective of his friends. In "The One with Ross' New Girlfriend", it was implied that he was sexually abused by his tailor but didn't realize it until Chandler went to the same tailor. As a child, he was extremely accident-prone. Steinberg on Friends, Drea de Matteo on Joey), Tina ( Lisa Maris), Veronica ( Dena Miceli), and Cookie ( Alex Meneses). Mary Teresa ( Christina Ricci on Joey), Mary Angela ( Holly Gagnier), Dina ( Marla Sokoloff), Gina ( K.J. Joey has seven sisters: Mary Therese ( Mimi Lieber on Friends) a.k.a. ( Robert Costanzo), is a pipefitter, and his mother's name is Gloria ( Brenda Vaccaro). Joey comes from a working-class Italian-American family of eight children, of which he is the only boy. He is from Queens, New York and is Catholic. He lived with a few other roommates when Chandler moved out to move in with Monica. He is an Italian-American struggling actor who lives in New York City with his roommate and best friend, Chandler Bing ( Matthew Perry), and hangs out in a tight-knit group of his best friends: Chandler, Ross Geller ( David Schwimmer), Monica Geller ( Courteney Cox), Rachel Green ( Jennifer Aniston), and Phoebe Buffay ( Lisa Kudrow).
He is portrayed by Matt LeBlanc in both series. Joey Tribbiani is a fictional character, serving as one of the primary characters of the NBC sitcom Friends and the protagonist of its spin-off Joey. ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This article relies too much on references to primary sources.