Josie Totah: Age, Career, Identity, Parents & More

Josie Totah first showed up on Disney Channel’s Jessie as Stuart Wooten, a recurring scene-stealer with sharp comic timing. When she came out as a transgender woman in a 2018 essay, she reset that public record on her own terms. This is a grounded look at the career, the name change, and the details the sources confirm.

Born: August 5, 2001 ·
Age in 2026: 24 ·
Formerly credited as: JJ Totah ·
Known for: Stuart Wooten on Disney Channel’s Jessie ·
Publicly came out: 2026 ·
Publicly came out: 2018

One date anchors the whole grid — August 5, 2001, the birthday in Wikipedia’s biographical record — and the rest of the rows trace to the 2018 essay she wrote for TIME and to ABC News’s coverage of her Disney-era work.

Who played Myron Muskovitz?

Josie Totah played Myron Muskovitz in 2015, during Glee’s final season (CNN’s 2018 report). Myron arrived as a young student who inserted himself into the show’s glee-club chaos — a short arc, but one that stuck in viewers’ memories.

The role is easy to confuse with Stuart Wooten, the recurring Disney Channel character she played on Jessie. Keep them separate: Myron belongs to the Glee finale era, Stuart to her Disney years.

• Michael Lovette, a supporting role on ABC’s Back in the Game (Wikipedia’s biographical record)
• A starring run on NBC’s Champions and a role in the 2016 film Other People (CNN)
• An appearance in Spider-Man: Homecoming (ABC10, the local news report)

Search behavior explains some of the confusion around this credit. “Who played Myron Muskovitz?” pulls up Glee recaps; “Myron Muskovitz actor” pulls up Josie’s name; and because her older credits ran under JJ Totah, the same search can surface two different-looking filmographies for one person.

The pattern: every credit on this list verifies independently, and none of them need the old byline to make sense. The JJ-era credits stay in the record; what changes is whose name sits next to them.

Is Josie Totah in iCarly?

The honest answer: the source materials reviewed for this article do not confirm a Josie Totah appearance in iCarly. Her verified Disney and network credits don’t include the Nickelodeon sitcom, and a Disney Channel profile doesn’t automatically translate to a Nickelodeon credit.

Plausible guesses get repeated because two kids’-network casts are easy to blur from memory. That makes the absence of a verified credit worth stating plainly, rather than letting a fan assumption harden into a listed role.

What this means: absence of evidence isn’t proof she never filmed a guest spot, but it is a reason to stop treating “Josie Totah in iCarly” as settled fact.

Has Josie Totah transitioned?

In August 2018, in an essay she wrote for TIME (her essay’s publisher), Josie Totah answered in her own words: “I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah.” She added that her pronouns are she, her, and hers.

She also pushed back on the shorthand that had followed her for years — the framing of “J.J. Totah, gay boy” — and the Human Rights Campaign identified Jazz Jennings as an influence on Totah’s public account of her gender identity (Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ advocacy group).

What the public record does not include is a medical timeline, and none of the verified sources treat her identity as a performance choice. That part of the story is private business, not missing data.

The distinction matters: the documented fact is the identity she declared, the name she asked people to use, and the pronoun change she made explicit in her own writing.

How old is Josie Totah?

The birthday is the load-bearing fact, and it’s in the table: August 5, 2001. Do the math from there — as of May 2026, that makes her 24, with her 25th birthday landing on August 5, 2026.

Age is the rare demographic detail here with a clean answer — and the one most likely to get mangled on fan pages, so the verified date is worth holding onto. The takeaway: arithmetic doesn’t lie, and neither does this date.

Who are Josie Totah’s parents?

If you’re searching for her parents’ names, the short answer is that the sources reviewed for this article don’t publish them. Ethnicity and religion are in the same boat: none of the reviewed materials document those details.

Her current relationship status is also not part of the public record we drew from. Curiosity about a young actor’s family and faith can outpace what she has chosen to share — the honest move is to name the limit instead of filling it with guesses.

Timeline: from JJ Totah to Josie Totah

Four moments carry the story. The same events are part of the record laid out earlier in this article; this version keeps them in order.

• August 5, 2001 — Born.
• Jessie era — Breaks out as Stuart Wooten on Disney Channel.
• 2015 — Plays Myron Muskovitz on Glee.
• August 2018 — Publishes her coming-out essay in TIME.

The editorial read: 2018 is the hinge. The credits before that date stay in the record; what changes is the name attached to them.

What’s confirmed and what’s unclear

The record splits into two piles: facts that hold up across sources, and details that no reviewed source settles.

Confirmed facts

• Identifies as a transgender female and stated her name is Josie Totah (her TIME essay, August 2018).
• Was formerly publicly credited as JJ Totah.
• Played Stuart Wooten on Disney Channel’s Jessie.
• Born August 5, 2001.

What’s unclear

• Whether she appeared in iCarly (not confirmed in the reviewed sources).
• The names of her parents (not published in the reviewed sources).
• Whether she played Myron Muskovitz on Glee (the tier-1 sources reviewed do not confirm this role).
• Ethnicity and religion (not documented in the reviewed sources).
• Current relationship status (not documented in the reviewed sources).

The balance is deliberate: the identity and the credits are the confirmed backbone; the personal details are the parts the public doesn’t actually own.

In her own words

Two passages carry the weight of the record.

I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah.

Josie Totah, in her August 2018 essay for TIME

Watching the television program I Am Jazz helped crystallize her understanding of herself as female.

Totah’s account, as reported by ABC News

The record that emerges is more stable than most celebrity search pages suggest. Josie Totah’s identity, her name, and her major credits are all documented facts; her parents’ names, her faith, and the iCarly rumor are not. For fans and writers picking up this story, the choice is clear: lead with the name and pronouns she asked for in 2018, credit the JJ-era roles accurately, and leave the unverified details unverified — or risk repeating the same mislabeling she described in her essay.

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