Joanna Hausmann


Joanna Hausmann Jatar is a Venezuelan-American comedian, writer, and actress who gained popularity through her comedy videos on YouTube as well as on Univision's bilingual platform, Flama. An immigrant to the United States, she also holds American citizenship.

Early life

Hausmann was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, to Economists Ricardo Hausmann and Chilean-Venezuelan Ana Julia Jatar during their graduate studies in the UK. She is Jewish.

Career

Her digital series Joanna Rants attempts to bridge bicultural gaps and challenge stereotypes through humor. 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.
Joanna was a correspondent on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World, which ran from April 21, 2017 to May 11, 2018. She was called the show's "unexpected star" by Inverse Magazine. 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 Monsters, Inc. spin-off series from Disney, Monsters at Work.
She won Comedian of the Year and Creator of the Year at Hispanicize's 2016 Tecla Awards and was nominated for a Best Humor Series Shorty Award. In 2018, she was honored by the National Hispanic Media Coalition with the award in Excellence in Online Story Telling.

Personal life

She is a performer at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City and a vocal critic of the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. She is the daughter of Harvard University economist and current Juan Guaidó-appointed envoy to the Inter-American Development Bank, Ricardo Hausmann, and journalist and former CNN en Español host, Ana Julia Jatar. 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. She is also the niece of Venezuelan journalist Braulio Jatar, a former political prisoner.