Emily Osment's Real Name: Emily Jordan Osment

Quick answer: Emily Osment was born Emily Jordan Osment on March 10, 1992, in Los Angeles. Her public name is simply her first and last name. She is the younger sister of actor Haley Joel Osment, played Lilly Truscott on Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, and now stars as Mandy McAllister on CBS's Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (Library of Congress; Los Angeles Times).

Real name and early life

The Library of Congress name authority files her as "Osment, Emily." Its citation reads "b. Emily Jordon (Jordan) Osment, Mar. 10, 1992, Los Angeles, Calif.; sister of Haley Joel Osment." The record shows the middle name spelled two ways, so searchers may see both "Jordon" and "Jordan." Jordan is the spelling in most published references.

Osment told the Los Angeles Times in 2025 that acting runs in her family. Her father, Michael Osment, "was an actor for a long time," and her brother, Haley Joel, four years older, was a child actor and still acts. She started at 5, saying that was "the correct time for me to be introduced to it." At the time of that interview, she said she had been a SAG-AFTRA member for almost 28 years.

She later spent two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, heading toward a theater major. She left when she was cast in the Freeform comedy Young & Hungry (2014–18), telling the Times that she could not work on a full-time sitcom "and also show up for your 8 a.m. music class."

Career highlights

As a child, Osment played Gerti Giggles in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003). Her breakout came as Lilly Truscott, Miley Stewart's best friend, on Hannah Montana (2006–11).

At 18 she guest-starred on Chuck Lorre's Two and a Half Men, the start of what she called a 14-year working relationship with the producer. She went on to appear in his series Mom and The Kominsky Method. In 2022 she took what was meant to be a one-time guest spot on Young Sheldon. She told Variety that the show kept calling her back, and she played Mandy McAllister for two seasons.

When Young Sheldon ended, Osment and Montana Jordan were cast as the leads of the 1994-set spinoff Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, which premiered in October 2024. Variety reported that it replaced Young Sheldon as the season's No. 1 broadcast comedy. In January 2025 she told the Los Angeles Times that her parents and brother had lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires. She told Variety she lost her Hannah Montana memorabilia in the Altadena fire.

Name notes for searchers

Emily Osment is her real name. Her middle name, Jordan, is sometimes spelled "Jordon" in library records.