What Is Josiah Victoria Garcia's Gender? 'Party of Five' Star Details

'Party of Five' Actor Garcia Is About to Become Your Latest Obsession

Feb. 12 2020, Updated 3:48 p.m. ET

Audiences have been presented to actor Garcia (also occasionally credited as Josiah Victoria Garcia) by way of method of their position in Netflix's Tales of the City, when they played the role of trans man Jake Rodriguez, who was exploring his new enchantment to males following his transition. 

But now that Garcia has been in the highlight following that function, most recently they've been forged as a habitual persona within the Party of Five Freeform reboot, fans are curious to be told more about the non-binary star. 

Keep reading for the whole thing you wish to have to learn about Garcia, their gender identity, and how you can practice the star on Instagram.

Garcia were given their acting get started somewhat serendipitously.

Trans non-binary star Garcia were given their acting get started reasonably luckily, whilst living in Chicago at 17. Standing at a educate station in Chicago, the place they have been raised, Garcia bumped into a pal who was with a youth leader. The youth chief would later change into Garcia's mentor and invited them to an open mic session where they carried out their poetry.

"A month and a half later, that same mentor invited me to be in one of his plays," Garcia tells i-D. "It was at a not-for-profit theater and it was a play that was co-written and co-directed by Chicago urban city youth. We were writing about the violence that black and brown people experience in Chicago."

"That was my introduction to theater, to acting, to art, to politics, to radical activism, sociology," they continued. "It was an introduction to a whole new world that I had no idea about." 

After having their eyes opened to this complete new global of risk, Garcia moved to New York the place they're recently studying at NYU. 

Garcia on gender and on playing trans roles.

On Party of Five, Garcia has a recurring position as Matthew, an undocumented young trans man that Valentina and Lucia Acosta meet at church. It's no longer a huge departure from their role as Jake in Tales of the City. 

Speaking with i-D, the actor defined how they navigated playing a trans personality with their very own gender identity as non-binary. "Being non-binary, in my personal experience, is a way of telling people that I don't identify as a man just because I'm trans," Garcia defined.

"But I also don't feel like I'm a woman, either. I don't feel or look like one. So I don't think there was a headspace I had to get into to play a trans male because, yeah, I'm still very much masculine. Even if [the character] wasn't trans and I was, I would still be able to play him. It's just an identity label," they persisted.

Follow Garcia on Instagram!

Garcia would possibly simply be getting began with their first two credited roles coming out up to now yr, but this star shows no signal of stopping. According to their IMDb web page, the actor will play Ruben in a imminent quick film referred to as Silk. 

On Instagram, the self-proclaimed "filthy mouthed sandwich eater" writes as their bio: "Sometimes I act. Sometimes I act up." In any case, their pics be offering a fun look at their projects and collaborations with different recognizable stars. They've already gathered nearly 18k followers, and we advise getting on board.

New episodes of Party of Five air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Freeform.

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