Biography
Maysie Hoy is a film editor. Born in Vancouver in 1949, she began her career in the early 1970s working for director Robert Altman in research, costume and production departments, and appeared in several of his films including McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Nashville (1975) and 3 Women (1977). She trained at the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women in 1977 and moved into editing as an apprentice on Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976).
Her editing credits include The Player (1992), The Joy Luck Club (1993), What Dreams May Come (1998), Freeway (1996) and Smoke (1995). She has edited sixteen films for director Tyler Perry, among them A Jazzman's Blues (2022) and The Six Triple Eight (2024). Hoy received the American Cinema Editors Career Achievement Award in 2025 and has twice been nominated for ACE Eddie awards. She serves on the boards of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and American Cinema Editors. Her brother William Hoy is also a film editor.
