Josie Totah

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Josie Totah
Born (2001-08-05) August 5, 2001 (age 23)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 2012–present

Josie Totah[1][2] (born August 5, 2001), formerly known as J. J. Totah,[3][4] is an American actress. She is known for her recurring role on the Disney Channel series Jessie and supporting role on the 2013 ABC comedy series Back in the Game. Totah received critical praise for her role in the 2016 film Other People. In 2018, she starred in the short-lived NBC comedy series Champions. Since 2020, she has starred as Lexi in the 2020 revival of Saved by the Bell.

Totah began her career playing male roles but publicly came out as a trans woman in August 2018, changing her first name to Josie.

Early life

Totah was born in Sacramento, California, the third child of Suheil and Christine Totah. She has one sister and one brother, and is of Palestinian and Lebanese ancestry.[5]

Career

Totah began her acting career in 2012 when she was cast as the "Lil' Dictator" in the first production for AwesomenessTV.[6] Beginning in 2013, she began appearing as Stuart Wooten, a boy with a crush on series regular Zuri Ross, in the Disney Channel Original Series Jessie.[7] Totah has guest starred on the TV shows, New Girl, 2 Broke Girls, and Liv and Maddie.

Also in 2013, Totah was cast in a supporting role in the ABC comedy Back in the Game. In 2015, she was cast in 4 episodes of the sixth season Glee as the youngest member ever of the New Directions.[8]

In 2016, Totah appeared in the film Other People, and received critical praise for her role with Variety, making her one of its Sundance Breakout Stars of the year.[9][10][11] In October 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Totah would star in a new comedy for NBC that she helped develop where Totah was set to produce alongside executive producers Adam and Naomi Scott.[12] In 2017, she appeared in the Netflix detective comedy Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie and the Marvel Studios film Spider-Man: Homecoming.

In January 2017, Totah joined Adam Devine in the Disney feature film Magic Camp.[13][14] In February 2017 Totah was cast as Michael Patel, the son of Mindy Kaling's character, Priya Patel, in the new NBC comedy Champions,[15] which was picked up to series in May 2017,[16] and aired from March 8 to May 25, 2018, before being canceled.[17] Totah was cast in a Saved by the Bell reboot for NBC's streaming service Peacock, where she played the character of Lexi, a socially powerful cheerleader.[18]

Personal life

On August 20, 2018, Totah wrote an article published in Time in which she came out as a transgender woman.[1]

Filmography

Film roles
Year Film Role
2016 Time Toys Boomer
2016 Other People Justin
2017 Handsome Charles
2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming Seymour O'Reilly
2020 Magic Camp Judd
2021 Moxie CJ[19]
Television roles
Year Film Role Notes
2012 Kroll Show Birthday Party Kid Unknown episodes
2013–2015 Jessie Stuart Wooten Recurring role, 7 episodes
2013–2014 Back in the Game Michael Lovette Supporting role
2014 Nina Needs to Go! Frank Main voice role, television shorts
2014 The Exes Cooper Episode: "My Fair Stuart"
2014 Sofia the First Prince Jin Voice role, 3 episodes
2014 New Girl Todd Episode: "Dance"
2014 2 Broke Girls Elliot Episode: "And the Childhood Not Included"
2015 Glee Myron Muskovitz 4 episodes
2016 Tween Fest Stop the Preston 4 episodes
2016–2017 Liv and Maddie: Cali Style Skeeter Parham 3 episodes
2018 Champions Michael Patel Main role
2019 The Other Two Elijah Episode: "Chase Goes to a High School Dance"
2019 No Good Nick Lisa Haddad 4 episodes
2020–2021 Saved by the Bell Lexi Haddad-DeFabrizio Main role; producer[18]
2020 Big Mouth Natalie (voice) 3 episodes
2021 iCarly Willow Episode: "iFauxpologize"
2022 Human Resources Natalie (voice) 2 episodes

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