Joshua Caleb Johnson is best known for his role as Henry "Onion" Shackleford in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird starring opposite Ethan Hawke, earning him a Critics Choice Award nomination. The series was named one of AFI's Top TV Shows of 2020. He was most recently seen in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement and the Amazon film Bingo Hell of the Welcome to the Blumhouse collection. He has recurred on the FX series Snowfall, the ABC series Black-ish, the TNT series Animal Kingdom. Johnson will next be seen in two roles, one is a recurring role on the DisneyPlus series The Crossover and in the other role he will play Young Malcom X, which will be airing on the National Geographic and DisneyPlus Channel.