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Joan Cusack Returns to Red Carpets to Promote Toy Story 5

Her public comeback reflects a years-long choice to raise her sons in Chicago rather than pursue a full-time Hollywood life

Overview

  • Cusack has resumed her role as the voice of Jessie in Toy Story 5, the franchise film now playing in theaters.
  • She made rare red carpet appearances for the film’s global premieres after nearly 11 years away from that kind of publicity.
  • Cusack told People that she stepped back from steady film and TV work to raise her two sons in Chicago and that she dislikes living in Los Angeles.
  • Her husband and sons attended the film’s Los Angeles premiere with her, underscoring the family-centered reason for her limited public profile.
  • Beyond acting, Cusack runs a small Chicago gift shop called Judy Maxwell Home and remains known as a two-time Oscar-nominated character actor with a career dating to the 1980s.