The actress, who voices cowgirl Jessie in the record-breaking <\/a>Toy Story 5<\/a>, has been running her store, Judy Maxwell Home, in Chicago for over a decade. As she tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, it’s named after her favorite Barbra Streisand<\/a> character (from What’s Up, Doc?).<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s so fun,\u201d she says. \u201cAt first I didn’t have price tags on anything, and I was sad when someone bought something because what was I going to do? I have to find another thing! So it’s been such a funny journey. I’ve never made any money, but it’s been a great hobby.\u201d<\/p>\n The acclaimed character actress, 63, was born in New York City and raised in Chicago by an ad executive-turned-actor dad and homemaker mom alongside her four siblings, including John Cusack<\/a>. She has lived in Chicago ever since, raising her two sons, Dylan, 29, and Miles, 26, there with her husband, Richard Burke, an attorney.<\/p>\n “I found this place that’s close to my house because I knew if it was far away and it was going to be too hard to do, I’d just never do it,” she says of her shop. “We found a retail space that had the old tin ceilings and this kind of really old wood floor. And I just felt like it doesn’t matter if I scratch the floor. I felt free.”<\/p>\n Joan Cusack and her character Jessie at the Toy Story 5 world premiere![\"Joan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f56d3058252264656decc7ef0711d705.jpeg\"\/)
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