Joey McIntyre

Joey McIntyre is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and Broadway performer born on December 31, 1972, in Needham, Massachusetts, where he was raised before his family relocated to the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. His father, Thomas McIntyre, worked as a union official, and his mother, Katherine (née Bowen) McIntyre, was a community theater actress. Katherine McIntyre died on November 30, 2014, following a prolonged battle with Alzheimer's disease. Thomas McIntyre died on November 12, 2018.

At age twelve, just before his thirteenth birthday in 1985, McIntyre joined New Kids on the Block, taking the place of departing member Jamie Kelly. The remaining four members had been longtime school friends before his arrival, which made his early integration into the group difficult. The band went on to produce two albums that reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and in 1991 Forbes ranked them the highest-earning entertainers in the world, ahead of Madonna and Michael Jackson. New Kids on the Block disbanded in 1994, reunited in April 2008, and have remained active since. Their reunion single "Summertime" was released in May 2008, followed by the album The Block on September 2, 2008. In 2011 and 2012, McIntyre toured with the group as part of the supergroup NKOTBSB alongside the Backstreet Boys.

Following the band's initial split, McIntyre pursued a solo recording career. Unable to secure a label deal, he self-financed his debut solo album Stay the Same and sold it through his own website, later bringing the title track to Boston radio DJs, which led to national airplay. The combination of airplay and online sales resulted in a recording contract with Sony Music USA's C2 label, a Columbia Records subsidiary, in 1999. The album was re-released on Sony's Work Records, sold more than one million copies worldwide, and its title track peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. A second single, "I Love You Came Too Late," also came from that album. His second solo album, Meet Joe Mac, followed in 2001, with "Rain" as its sole single. A fourth solo album, 8:09, appeared in 2004, and Talk to Me, a collection of cover versions, was released in December 2006. In November 2011, McIntyre released the Christmas album Come Home for Christmas, which included a collaboration with fellow New Kid Jordan Knight on "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy." He returned to solo recording in October 2020 with the single "Own This Town," his first solo release since 2011, followed in 2021 by the single "Prolific."

McIntyre made his acting debut in the 1995 film The Fantasticks, based on the long-running Off-Broadway musical and starring Joel Grey and Jean Louisa Kelly, though the film was not released in theaters until 2000. He also recorded the song "Remember Me" in 1999 for the film Southie, which starred his former bandmate Donnie Wahlberg. His stage career began in earnest when he played the role of Jon in Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM!, appearing in the Off-Broadway production in fall 2001 and then in the national tour in 2003. In 2004, he joined the Broadway cast of Wicked as Fiyero Tigelaar, the leading male role, replacing Norbert Leo Butz on July 20, 2004, and remaining with the production until January 9, 2005, when he was succeeded by David Ayers. On February 4, 2019, McIntyre returned to Broadway in Waitress, playing Dr. Jim Pomatter, a role he held through April 7, 2019.

Beyond Broadway, McIntyre appeared as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli in Happy Days, a musical staged at the Falcon Theater in Los Angeles, with runs from February 15 to March 12, 2006, and again from June 23 to August 13, 2006. On March 24, 2022, he originated the role of Johnny in The Wanderer, a new musical production at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, continuing in the role through the show's closing on April 28, 2022.

His television work includes a season-long appearance on Boston Public in 2002, a guest role on the season six Psych episode "The Amazing Psych-Man & Tap Man, Issue #2" on November 2, 2011, a recurring role as Gerard McCarthy on the CBS sitcom The McCarthys in 2014, and appearances on Fuller House in 2016 and in the season five finale in 2020. McIntyre competed on the first season of Dancing with the Stars, finishing third alongside professional partner Ashly DelGrosso. His film credits include a role as Peter Mullins in the 2013 comedy The Heat, opposite Melissa McCarthy, and a starring role in the 2004 film Tony n' Tina's Wedding alongside Mila Kunis.

On April 15, 2013, McIntyre ran the Boston Marathon to raise awareness of Alzheimer's disease in honor of his mother, finishing with a time of three hours and fifty-seven minutes, shortly before a bomb detonated near the finish line, killing three people and injuring many others. In October 2017, he launched the podcast The Move with Joey McIntyre, in which he interviews guests about significant transitions in their lives. In May 2021, McIntyre and Debbie Gibson announced the collaborative single "Lost in Your Eyes, The Duet," released on June 4, 2021, along with a four-night limited engagement at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas in August 2021.