Joanna Hausmann

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Joanna Hausmann
Born
Joanna Hausmann Jatar

(1989-03-20) 20 March 1989 (age 35)
Royal Leamington Spa, England
Citizenship
  • Venezuela
  • United States
Alma mater Tufts University
Occupations
  • Actress
  • comedian
  • writer
Parents
Relatives Michel Hausmann (brother)
Braulio Jatar (uncle)
Carolina Hausmann (sister)

Joanna Hausmann Jatar (born 20 March 1989) is a Venezuelan and naturalised American comedian and television writer. She gained popularity through her videos on YouTube as well as on Univision's bilingual platform, Flama.[ citation needed ] She is currently the head writer for Hamster and Gretel .

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Early life

Hausmann was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, to Ricardo Hausmann and Cuban-Venezuelan Ana Julia Jatar during their graduate studies in the UK. Her father is of German and Belgian Jewish origin while her mother has European and Lebanese origin. Her mother escaped Cuba during the Castro regime. [1] [2] She became a US citizen in 2012.

Career

Her digital series Joanna Rants attempts to bridge bicultural gaps and challenge stereotypes through humor. [3] [4] [5] She tackles a variety of subjects such as explaining the different Spanish accents across Latin America, and comparing U.S. and Latin American customs and politics.[ citation needed ]

Hausmann was a correspondent on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World , [6] [7] which ran from 21 April 2017 to 11 May 2018. She was called the show's "unexpected star" by Inverse Magazine . [8] She also voices the Octalian Pilot on Disney Channel's Milo Murphy's Law . She is slated to voice another animated character on the upcoming[ when? ] Monsters, Inc. spin-off series from Disney, Monsters at Work .[ citation needed ] Hausmann is also a cast member on the animated Paramount+ series Harper House. [9] Hausmann has written for television for shows including TruTV's sitcom Tacoma FD .[ citation needed ] She is the head-writer on Disney Channel's "Hamster & Gretel." [10] [ failed verification ]

She won Comedian of the Year and Creator of the Year at Hispanicize's 2016 Tecla Awards [11] and was nominated for a Best Humor Series Shorty Award. [12] In 2018, she was honored by the National Hispanic Media Coalition with the award in Excellence in Online Story Telling. [13]

Personal life

She is a performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre [14] in New York City and a vocal critic of the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.[ citation needed ] She is Jewish, and converted to Judaism along with her mother after moving to the US. [3] Her father, Ricardo Hausmann, was appointed by Juan Guaidó as envoy to the Inter-American Development Bank until his resignation in September 2019. [15] [16] [17] Her brother is Michel Hausmann, a Venezuelan theater director who endured discrimination after an orchestra cancelled their collaboration with his production of Fiddler on the Roof , citing their concern for government funding under Hugo Chávez. [18] [19] [ failed verification ] She is also the niece of Venezuelan journalist Braulio Jatar, a former political prisoner. [20]

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