Josie Totah

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

Totah began her career playing male roles but publicly came out as a trans woman in August 2018, changing her first name to Josie.^[4]

Totah was born in Sacramento, California, the third child of Suheil and Christine Totah.^[5] She has a sister and brother; she is of Palestinian and Lebanese ancestry.^[6]

Josie Totah began her acting career in 2012 when she was cast as the "Lil' Dictator" in the first production for AwesomenessTV.^[7] Beginning in 2013 she portrayed Stuart Wooten, a boy with a crush on series regular Skai Jackson (Zuri Ross), in the Disney Channel Original Series Jessie .^[8] 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 the same year, she and her mother appeared in an episode of Family Game Night .^[9] In 2015, she was cast in the sixth season Glee as the youngest member ever of the New Directions, which she played in four episodes.^[10] 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.^{[11] [12] [13]} In October 2016, Deadline Hollywood reported that Totah would star in a new comedy for NBC which she helped develop where Totah was set to produce alongside executive producers Adam and Naomi Scott.^[14] 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 .^{[15] [16]} In February 2017, Totah was cast as Michael Patel, the son of Mindy Kaling's character, Priya Patel, in the new NBC comedy Champions ,^[17] which was picked up to series in May 2017,^[18] and aired from March 8 to May 25, 2018, before being canceled.^[19] 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.^[20]

In August 2022, she started a podcast titled Dare We Say with Yasmine Hamady and Saved by the Bell co-star Alycia Pascual-Peña.^[21]

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

Totah attended Chapman University, graduating in 2022. She was a member of a sorority.^[22]

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