Josh Segarra

Segarra was born on June 3, 1986, in Longwood, Florida.^[2][3] He is Puerto Rican,^[4][5] and is fluent in Spanish.^[6] He learned to sing in his Pentecostal church but aspired to be a professional wrestler.^[7] Segarra is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.^[8][9]

From 2009 to 2011, Segarra portrayed a main role of Hector Ruiz on the PBS Kids Go television series The Electric Company.^[10] He then originated the role of Mick in the musical Lysistrata Jones.^[4] In May 2012, Segarra was announced as a cast member for the Off-Broadway world premiere of Dogfight, a musical adaptation of the film of the same name, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan.^[11] The musical opened at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage Theater on July 16, 2012.^[12]

Two years later, he recurred during the first season of the comedy television series Sirens,^[5] after which he was promoted to a series regular during its second season.^[13] Segarra then began a recurring role on the NBC police procedural drama Chicago P.D.^[14] He also appeared in the 2015 comedy film Trainwreck.^[15] Segarra originated the role of Emilio Estefan in the musical On Your Feet!, which opened at the Marquis Theater on Broadway on November 5, 2015.^[16] His final performance took place on July 10, 2016.^[17][18] Following his final appearance on Chicago P.D. in May 2016, Segarra was cast as a series regular on the CW superhero television series Arrow for its fifth season.^[19] He portrayed the series' adaptation of the comic book character Adrian Chase.^[9] He then returned in a guest starring capacity during the series' sixth and eighth seasons.^[20]

Since January 2019, Segarra has been a recurring cast member on The Other Two, a comedy television series on HBO Max.^[21][22] In December, he recurred on The Moodys as Marco, a "commodities broker with exquisite phone skills."^[23] He also starred in the Netflix comedy series AJ and the Queen,^[24] which premiered on January 10, 2020.^[25] That same year, Segarra appeared as a special agent during the third season of the crime drama series FBI and starred as a pastor in the musical film Christmas on the Square.^[26][27]

In 2022, Segarra appeared in the Disney+ superhero series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.^[28] He had a supporting role in the slasher sequel Scream VI, the sixth installment in the Scream series, which was released in March 2023.^[29] That same year, he appeared in the second season of the drama series Heels.^[30] He also appears as Giorgio in the Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize season 1 and season 2.

In 2024, he also portrayed Manny, a school district representative for Philadelphia, in Abbott Elementary.^[31]

Segarra married his longtime girlfriend Brace Rice on October 17, 2014.^[32] They have three sons together.^[33]