Simone Joy Jones

Simone Joy Jones (birthname: Simone Joy Jones) is an actor/singer who had her small-screen breakthrough in the role of Lisa on the BET series, Bel-Air (launching in 2022) and has emerged in feature films, starting with a supporting role as a child actor in The Son of No One (2011), directed and written by Dito Montiel and co-starring Channing Tatum, Tracy Morgan, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Juliette Binoche, and Al Pacino, and which premiered at the Sundance film festival.

Jones developed her acting talents over the next decade with drama-musical studies at Carnegie Mellon University, on the stage, and television, before she appeared in a supporting role in her second feature in the rom-com, Anything’s Possible (2022), directed by Billy Porter and starring Ximena García Lecuona, and released by Amazon Studios.

Jones landed her first starring role in the black comedy remake of the 1991 original, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (2024), with the supporting cast of Patricia “Ms. Pat” Williams, Jermaine Fowler, June Squibb, and Nicole Richie, and which was backed by BET and released by Iconic Events Releasing.