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name: "Jojo T. Gibbs"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jojo-t-gibbs"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 April 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-19T08:26:24.700766+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jojo T. Gibbs

Actor. Born 15 April 1989 in Gaffney, South Carolina, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 April 1989, Gaffney, South Carolina, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Also known as:** Jonica T. Gibbs , Jonica Gibbs, Jojo Gibbs, Джоджо Т.Гіббс, 喬尼卡·T·吉布斯
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 67 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Crime 1, Romance 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $159m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonica_T._Gibbs, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96741403, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6851510/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2135069

## Fi1m on Jojo T. Gibbs

> A stand-up by training whom films keep casting as the calm one while somebody else has the crisis. In *Dogman* she sits opposite Caleb Landry Jones for two hours with nothing but questions, and makes even that count.

For most of *Dogman* (2023) Jojo T. Gibbs sits across a table from Caleb Landry Jones in a flat grey interview room and asks him the next question. Luc Besson tells the whole story from that cell, so his editor, Julien Rey, has to cut back to her face every few minutes, and what he finds there is always the same: patient, still, giving nothing away. It is the least showy job in the film and she does it without once reaching for our attention. Steadiness is what she is hired for, and it is starting to limit her.

She did not start out steady. Gibbs began in stand-up around 2014, co-created a web series in Los Angeles, and got her first lead from it: Hattie in *Twenties* (2020–2021), Lena Waithe's series about a queer aspiring television writer. The comic timing came from the clubs and the series is where it shows. Then films came, and films have used her differently. In *Fresh* (2022) she is Mollie, the heroine's best friend. In *Past Lives* (2023) she is Janice, a part cut down to a non-speaking appearance. In *Dogman* she is the psychiatrist; in *Civil War* (2024) she is a sergeant. Each is a supporting role, and each asks her to keep her voice level while someone else has the crisis.

She is good at level. In *Dogman* Jones is doing everything, wig, dress, blood, Piaf, and the scenes where the film lets him sit still opposite her are the ones where he is quietly good, because she gives him someone worth confessing to. We spent much of the film wishing Besson would stay in that room longer, and were surprised, given how thin the picture is elsewhere, by how much we wanted to watch a woman simply listen. But she is handed nothing but questions, and a performance built entirely of reactions can only be as good as the thing it reacts to. Besson's later scenes, dark and bloody and hard to follow, leave her with less and less to do.

So the film record so far shows a steady, unshowy actor of the kind directors reach for when they need someone to hold the frame still while a bigger performance goes off next to it. That is honest work and she does it cleanly. It is not what she trained for. For the comedian, go to *Twenties*. For the actor she might become, wait for a director who trusts her with the punchline as well as the pause.

## Biography

Jojo T. Gibbs, also credited as Jonica T. Gibbs, is an American actress and comedian. She was born on 15 April 1989 in Gaffney, South Carolina.

Gibbs is known for her lead role as Hattie in the BET series *Twenties* (2020–2021). Her film credits include Evelyn in *Dogman* (2023), Mollie in *Fresh* (2022), Janice in *Past Lives* (2023), and WF White House Sergeant in *Civil War* (2024). She has also appeared in *Something from Tiffany's* (2022), *Dirty Angels* (2024) and the series *Good Trouble* (2019–2020).

She began performing stand-up comedy in 2014 and moved to Los Angeles in 2015 to pursue acting.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Civil War* (2024), Fi1m 70, as WF White House Sergeant — [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Dogman* (2023), Fi1m 54, as Evelyn — [page](https://film.one/film/dogman-2023.md)
- *Past Lives* (2023), Fi1m 85, as Janice — [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Paradise* (2025), series, as Jackie 'Jack' — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/paradise.md)
- *Dirty Angels* (2024), as Geek
- *Cora Bora* (2024), as Justine
- *Civil War* (2024), as WF White House Sergeant — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/civil-war.md)
- *Dogman* (2023), as Evelyn — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/dogman-2023.md)
- *Past Lives* (2023), as Janice — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/past-lives.md)
- *Something from Tiffany's* (2022), as Terri Blake
- *Fresh* (2022), as Mollie
- *Twenties* (2020), series, as Hattie
- *Good Trouble* (2019), series, as Fundraiser Guest

## Gallery

- ![Jonica "Jojo" T. Gibbs at an Emmy's party in Los Angeles. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/290723/gallery-df81e973deea.jpg) Jonica "Jojo" T. Gibbs at an Emmy's party in Los Angeles. (2018) — Jtgibbs89, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/JojoTGibbs.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jojo T. Gibbs](https://film.one/media/person/290723/gallery-fe73bd2d313e.jpg) Jojo T. Gibbs — Image via TMDB
- ![Jojo T. Gibbs](https://film.one/media/person/290723/gallery-d59819eb0d59.jpg) Jojo T. Gibbs — Image via TMDB
- ![Jojo T. Gibbs](https://film.one/media/person/290723/gallery-387b558fa90b.jpg) Jojo T. Gibbs — Image via TMDB
- ![Jojo T. Gibbs](https://film.one/media/person/290723/gallery-491c9158bd6f.jpg) Jojo T. Gibbs — Image via TMDB

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