1. Joyce Byers is a fictional character from the Netflix science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things and is played by Winona Ryder.
31 Facts About Joyce Byers
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Joyce Byers is portrayed as a resilient and fiercely protective mother to her son Will, who mysteriously disappears in the town of Hawkins, Indiana in season one.
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Joyce Byers is fashioned after Richard Dreyfuss' character, Roy Neary, in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Joyce Byers is portrayed to appear insane to other characters as she searches for her missing son, Will, whom everyone believes to be dead.
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Joyce Byers received a pay raise in that same season.
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In season 1, Joyce Byers is depicted as a kind, caring, and sometimes frazzled single mother working at a general store in downtown Hawkins, who lives with her sons Jonathan and Will.
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Joyce Byers begins to receive mysterious phone calls, becoming convinced she can hear Will's breathing on the phone, but the calls always end with the family's home phone exploding.
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Joyce Byers is dismissed as crazy when she begins to see faded visions of Will through the wall and thinks that he is communicating with her by manipulating lights around the house, but she remains steadfast in her faith.
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When Joyce Byers tells Jonathan of her findings, he too dismisses them as products of an overactive mind.
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When Will's body is found in a lake, Joyce Byers is doubtful that even her own theories are true, but becomes certain that what they found drowned in a lake was not Will's body.
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In season 2 of Stranger Things, set almost a year after the events of the first season, Joyce Byers is shown happily dating a newly introduced character, Bob Newby, who is one of her high school classmates.
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Still traumatized from the events of season 1, Joyce Byers is shown to be overprotective of her son Will, no longer letting him bike around town by himself.
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Joyce Byers grows increasingly worried about Will, who begins having frequent "episodes" where he experiences realistic visions of the Upside Down.
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Joyce Byers remains unconvinced, even as Hopper, a Vietnam veteran, suggests that Will might simply be suffering from PTSD.
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Joyce Byers agrees, but when Joyce and Hopper take a careful look at his pictures, they only see scribbles and lines.
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Joyce Byers makes it back to the group in time, but is soon devoured by a Demodog just a few feet shy of the door.
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Joyce Byers, shocked and depressed, returns home with Jonathan, Nancy, and Will.
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In season 3, Joyce Byers is noticing the magnets on her fridge are failing to magnetize.
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Joyce Byers finds this peculiar but goes to work where she sees Hopper and gives him advice on Eleven's relationship with Mike.
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Joyce Byers tells her about a theoretical machine that affects the magnetic field.
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Joyce Byers tries to interrogate him but he only speaks Russian, so Joyce Byers and Hopper decide to see conspiracy theorist Murray Bauman, who translates for them.
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Joyce Byers turns the key and destroys the machine, which appears to disintegrate everyone in the room.
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Joyce Byers decides to move out of Hawkins with her family, now including Eleven.
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Joyce Byers receives a mysterious package with postage from the Soviet Union.
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Joyce Byers calls Murray, who suggests the doll might have been sent to her by the KGB, who want to capture her for her role in destroying the Soviets' secret operations under Starcourt Mall in season 3.
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Joyce Byers realizes the doll is broken and finds a note inside it, which tells her that Hopper is still alive and provides a phone number.
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Murray comes to California and helps Joyce Byers call the phone number in the note.
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Not wanting to get Eleven's hopes up, Joyce Byers decides not to tell her children about the possibility that Hopper is alive.
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Joyce Byers is in a relationship with her future husband Lonnie Byers, who is no longer in high school.
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Joyce Byers attends HHS with many familiar characters such as Jim Hopper, Bob Newby, Ted Wheeler, and Henry Creel.
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Joyce Byers was nominated for Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama by Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards.