Sweet, sexy and shapely black actress Marilyn Joi greatly enlivened a bunch of enjoyably trashy 1970s drive-in exploitation pictures with her boundless vitality, bubbly, upbeat personality, stunningly gorgeous looks and considerable sex appeal. Joi began her performing career as a popular nightclub dancer, and in fact made her film debut as a ...
Well, I did do quite a few things for a person who was never, y'know, a star. I was in movies, I was on TV, I did posters and magazine covers and interviews, I'm on the "Ilsa" T-shirt. I've been immortalized! I can say, "Look, I did films! I really was an actress!" (reflecting on her career)
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Tender Loving Care
1973
Lynn (as Ineda King)
Detroit 9000
1973
Dancing hooker in whorehouse (uncredited)
Coffy
1973
uncredited
The Student Teachers
1973
Topless Dancer (as Tracy Ann King)
Wonder Women
1973
Black in Brown Bikini (uncredited)
Hit Man
1972
Rita Biggs (as Tracy Ann-King)
Hammer
1972
Dancer (as Tracy King)
Satan's Princess
1989
Hooker
Hill Street Blues
1986
TV Series
Rhonda
Hunter
1986
TV Series
Hooker
C.O.D.
1981
Debbie Winter
Galaxina
1980
Winged Girl
The Great American Girl Robbery
1979
LaSalle (as Tracy King)
Nurse Sherri
1978
Tara Williams
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
Cleopatra Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
1977
Sheila
Charlie's Angels
1977
TV Series
Brenda
Good Times
1977
TV Series
Karen Casey
Black Samurai
1977
Synne
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1976
Daughter (as Marilyn Joy)
Starsky and Hutch
1976
TV Series
Pepper / Charlie
Mansion of the Doomed
1976
Miss Mathews
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
1976
Velvet (as Marilyn Joy)
Blazing Stewardesses
1975
Barbara (as T.A. King)
The Candy Tangerine Man
1975
Clarisse (as Tracy King)
The Naughty Stewardesses
1974
Barbara (as Tracy King)
Black Starlet
1974
Kiss Girl (as Tracy King)
Black Samson
1974
Widow (as Tracy Ann King)
Mean Mother
1974
Joy (as Tracy King)
Costume Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Black Samurai
1977
costumes: Marilyn Joi
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blazing Stewardesses: Interview with Marilyn Joi
2006
Video documentary short
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Saucy 70's Volume 2
2010
Video documentary
Known for movies
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) as Cleopatra Schwartz (segment "Cleopatra Schwartz")
Nurse Sherri (1978) as Tara Williams
Black Samurai (1977) as Synne
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) as Velvet
$500,000
