MTV Studios Announces The Cast For The Upcoming Animated Film ‘Jodie’

By Okla Jones ·Updated May 16, 2022

Today, MTV Entertainment Studios announced the cast of its new animated film Jodie, a spinoff of the network’s highly-popular Daria series.

Featuring the award-winning actress Tracee Ellis Ross as the voice of Jodie, the cast also includes Pamela Adlon, Cole Escola, Jojo T. Gibbs, William Jackson Harper, Zosia Mamet, Alex Moffat, Dermot Mulroney, Arden Myrin, Kal Penn, Kofi Siriboe, Dulcé Sloan, and Heléne Yorke. The film will follow Jodie Landon as she leaves college, moves to a gentrifying city, and begins working at a peculiar tech company called Firstfinity.

Executive produced by writer and showrunner Gracie Edwards alongside Ellis Ross and Ashley Kohler; the film will explore the all too familiar struggle that comes from someone’s first job after graduation. Jodie will satirize workplace culture, social media, the difficulties that members of Generation Z face on a constant basis, and so much more.

Take a look at the film’s cast below.

01Grace Edwards, ShowrunnerJodie was executive produced and written by showrunner Grace Edwards.

02Tracee Ellis Ross – JodieTracee Ellis Ross will play Jodie, the character from Daria. Fresh from college graduation and full of ambition, she heads to the big city for an internship at a tech company.

Photo by Maarten de Boer 03Kofi Siriboe – RaymondKofi Siriboe will play Raymond, Jodie’s incredibly handsome, but not-so-friendly supervisor at Firstfinity.

04Jojo T. Gibbs – TiffanyJojo T. Gibbs will play the stylish and cool Tiffany, who lives in Jodie’s building and is Cas’s ex.

05Dulcé Sloan – CasDulcé Sloan will play Cas, Jodie’s fun-loving best friend from college and new roommate.

06William Jackson Harper – MackWilliam Jackson Harper will play Mack, Jodie’s witty and supportive high school sweetheart from the original Daria series.

07Kal Penn – SandeepKal Penn will play Sandeep, another fellow intern who is a fitness-obsessed, techie.

08Pamela Adlon – Jocelyn LightPamela Adlon will play Jocelyn Light, the trailblazing VP of Internet Affairs at FirstFinity who Jodie reveres.

09Cole Escola – RyanCole Escola will play Ryan, Jodie’s intern friend at Firstfinity.

10Zosia Mamet – GretaZosia Mamet will play the “empathetic” Greta, Jodie’s fellow intern at Firstfinity.

11Alex Moffat – BarryAlex Moffat will play Barry, the overeager internship coordinator at Firstfinity who, despite being in his 50s, desperately tries to be Gen-Z cool.