Joy is a Netflix movie that dramatizes the real-life, 10-year battle to make IVF possible for infertile couples, culminating in the birth of the world’s first ‘test-tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown in 1978.
This emotional one-off drama stars Jojo Rabbit’s Thomasin McKenzie as Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist who helped unlock the puzzle of infertility and bring hope to millions of childless people in the future. James Norton also stars as scientist Robert Edwards and Bill Nighy is surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who both joined forces with Jean and overcame tremendous odds to turn the pioneering concept into reality.
