Josephine Joseph

Josephine Joseph

Acting

Birthday

1891/07/04

Day of death

1966/07/11 (75 years old)

Gender

Non-binary

Place of Birth

Austria

Also know as

Josephine-Joseph

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 hav...Read more

Acting
Freaks
7.8

(1932) Freaks

as Half Woman-Half Man