Josephine Langford

Josephine Langford
Full name	Josephine Langford
Born	August 18, 1997
Birth place	Perth, Australia
Years active	2013-present
Occupation	Actress
Film(s)	After, After We Collided, After We Fell, After Ever Happy
Character	Tessa Young

Josephine Langford is an Australian actress best known for her role as Tessa Young in the young adult film adaptations of, After. She reprised her role in all four films.

Biography and Career

Josephine Langford was born in Perth, Western Australia, and raised in Applecross, a riverside suburb of Perth. She is the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Langford, a pediatrician, and Stephen Langford, a flying doctor and the director of medical services at the Royal Flying Doctor and Service Western Operations. Her older sister, Katherine Langford, is also an actress.

She always wanted to pursue her acting career. She wanted to write and sing songs that played on the radio as a child.

She began acting at the age of fifteen, appearing in several short films such as Sex Ed (2013), When Separating (2013), and Gypsy Blood (2014). She made her screen debut in the indie film Pulse (2017), which screened at film festivals. She also starred as a supporting actress the same year on the American horror film Wish Upon, acting alongside Joey King. She also made her television debut in 2017 on the Australian series Wolf Creek.

On July 9, 2018, it was announced that Langford was set to star as Tessa Young in the film After, which is based on the 2014 new adult fiction novel of the same name written by Anna Todd. She was nominated for and won a Teen Choice Award for her role as Tessa Young. A sequel, After We Collided, was announced in 2019, with Josephine and co-star Hero Fiennes-Tiffin set to reprise their roles.

In 2019, Langford also appeared in the American horror anthology web television series Into the Dark as Clair. In November 2019, it was announced that Langford had been cast as Emma Johnson in the Netflix film Moxie, which is based on the novel of the same name written by Jennifer Mathieu.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2017	Pulse	Student
2017	Wish Upon	Darcie Chapman
2019	After	Tessa Young
2020	After We Collided
2020	Moxie	Emma Johnson
2020	At the Peak of It All (YouTube short film)	Narrator
TBA	After We Fell	Tessa Young
TBA	After Ever Happy

Awards and Nominations

Year	Film	Award	Category	Outcome
2019	After	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress: Drama	Won

Notes and Trivia

• Jo originally auditioned for the role of Molly in After. She did two auditions for "Molly" before she found out the role had already been cast. She was only cast as Tessa one-week before filming began.
  • She read the first book and the script while on a plane to start filming.
  • Jo was the only potential "Tessa" who didn't have a chemistry read with Hero.
• She has read the entire After novel series.
  • Additionally, Jo admitted in an interview that she read the first few pages of After on Wattpad several years before being cast as Tessa.
• Her zodiac sign is Leo.
• She loves to watch Netflix and a variety of movies and television shows.
• Among her favorite movies are Die Hard, Dark Knight, Inception, and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
• Her favorite After character aside from Tessa is Hardin.
• Josephine's favorite tattoo that Hardin has is anything with writing.
• Her first impression of Hero was, "Gosh, he's tall".
• The costume department custom-tailored a green slip dress that Tessa was originally going to wear for the WCU frat house party in After, but they ultimately went a different direction. Josephine was able to keep the original green dress.
• Josephine learned how to ice skate for her role in After We Collided.
• After months of fan requests, Josephine was able to be photographed by Damon Baker, a popular social media photographer known for his emotional pieces.

Gallery

Press

Jo at the PCA's

Behind the Scenes

Josephine joins the After cast

Wrapping After

After We Collided era

Cast dinner

AWC wrap party

Jo doing ADR for AWC

After We Fell era

The After series wraps