Josephine Joseph

Josephine Joseph

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Acting

  • Gender

    Non-binary

  • Birthday

    1891-07-04

  • Day of Death

    1966-07-11 (75 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Austria

Biography

Josephine-Joseph (c. 1896/1897) was an American performer who was prominent in circus sideshows and the carnival circuits during the early 20th century.

She is best known for her only film role in the Tod Browning, pre-code production Freaks in 1932. Her body was supposedly split down the middle, one side female and the other male. She claimed to be an intersex person ("true hermaphrodite" as it was called in her times), but there is no evidence to confirm whether this was the case; she may have just been a very skilled impersonator, in the style of Albert-Alberta Karas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Josephine Joseph, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Acting

  • (1932)

    Freaks

    as Half Woman-Half Man