Maysie Hoy
Maysie Hoy is a film editor who has been active since the early 1990s. She is a long-time collaborator with director Tyler Perry, having edited 16 films for him. She was nominated twice for an American Cinema Editors award, and in 2025, she received their Career Achievement Award. Hoy is also on the Board of Directors of both the Motion Picture Editors Guild and American Cinema Editors.
Hoy has a brother, William Hoy, who is also a film editor.
Background
Maysie Hoy and her brother William Hoy were born in Vancouver to Chinese parents. She studied improvisational theatre in San Francisco and moved back to Vancouver, where she founded the improvisational company The Good Will Store and became its artistic director. She was cast in director Robert Altman's film McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and after filming was completed, she moved to Los Angeles. She worked under Altman for eight years, doing research, costume, and production design. She also appeared in several other of Altman's films: California Split, Nashville, and 3 Women. She became an editing apprentice on Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians.While working in editing, she enrolled in the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women and completed the program in 1977. During the 1980s, she took eight years off to raise her two children while her husband worked as gaffer. When he was out of work, she sought work and became first assistant film editor for Major League. The editing led to more work, for the film The Player. One of her first solo editing credits was the film The Joy Luck Club.
From the late 2000s onward, she frequently edited Tyler Perry's films.
Credits
| Year | Title | Notes | |
| 1992 | Bank Robber | ||
| 1993 | ' | ||
| 1994 | There Goes My Baby | Edited with Danford B. Greene | |
| 1995 | Smoke | ||
| 1995 | Mrs. Munck | ||
| 1996 | Freeway | ||
| 1997 | Love Jones | ||
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come | Edited with David Brenner | |
| 1999 | Life Tastes Good | ||
| 1999 | Crazy in Alabama | Edited with Robert C. Jones | |
| 2003 | Chasing Papi | ||
| 2005 | Christmas in the Clouds | Edited with Alan Baumgarten | |
| 2005 | Smile | ||
| 2006 | ' | ||
| 2006 | Broken Bridges | ||
| 2007 | Daddy's Little Girls | ||
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? | ||
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | ||
| 2008 | ' | ||
| 2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | ||
| 2009 | I Can Do Bad All by Myself | ||
| 2010 | Why Did I Get Married Too? | ||
| 2010 | For Colored Girls | ||
| 2011 | Madea's Big Happy Family | ||
| 2012 | Good Deeds | ||
| 2012 | Madea's Witness Protection | ||
| 2013 | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | ||
| 2013 | ' | ||
| 2014 | ' | ||
| 2015 | Spare Parts | ||
| 2017 | Love Beats Rhymes | Edited with Bruce Cannon | |
| 2018 | Alex & Me | ||
| 2019 | Breakthrough | ||
| 2020 | Mighty Oak | Edited with Matt Michael | |
| 2021 | Afterlife of the Party | ||
| 2022 | ' | ||
| 2023 | ' | ||
| 2024 | ' | ||
| 2025 | Ruth & Boaz |
| Year | Title | Notes | |
| 1991 | Boris and Natasha | TV movie | |
| 2000 | Freedom Song | TV movie | |
| 2001 | TV movie | ||
| 2006 | Time Bomb | TV movie; edited with Victor Du Bois | |
| 2015 | Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors | TV movie | |
| 2016 | Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love | TV movie | |
| 2019 | Dolly Parton's Heartstrings | TV series, 2 episodes | |
| 2019 | Same Time, Next Christmas | TV movie |