Name
Josh Charles
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-09-15 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biography
Joshua Aaron Charles is an American film, television, and theater actor. He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on Sports Night, Will Gardner on The Good Wife, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and his early work as Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society and Bryan from Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
Known For
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At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher in...
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Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and v...
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Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. Howev...
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Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in N...
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Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While ...
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Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly....
- 1989 Dead Poets Society as Knox Overstreet
- 1994 Threesome as Eddy
- 2005 Four Brothers as Detective Fowler
- 2004 Seeing Other People as Lou
- 2003 S.W.A.T. as T.J. McCabe
- 2009 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as Subject #2
- 2009 After.Life as Tom Peterson
- 1991 Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead as Bryan
- 1996 Crossworlds as Joe Talbot
- 2007 The Darwin Awards as Paramedic
- 2000 Meeting Daddy as Peter Silverblatt
- 2010 Weakness as Bart
- 1992 Crossing the Bridge as Mort Golden
- 2023 Memory as Isaac
- 2024 Mothers' Instinct as Damian
- 1999 Muppets from Space as Agent Barker
- 1997 Cyclops, Baby as Brush Brody
- 1996 Norma Jean & Marilyn as Eddie Jordan
- 1990 Murder in Mississippi as Andrew Goodman
- 2014 Bird People as Gary Newman
- 2014 Adult Beginners as Phil
- 2002 Our America as Dave Isay
- 1995 Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead as Bruce (uncredited)
- 2022 Facing Suicide as Narrator
- 2015 I Smile Back as Bruce Brooks
- 1993 Cooperstown as Jody
- 2015 Freeheld as Bryan Kelder
- 2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as Chris
- 1996 Pie in the Sky as Charlie Dunlap
- 1996 The Grave as Tyn
- 1995 Coldblooded as Randy
- 2016 The Drowning as Tom Seymour
- 2006 The Ex as Forrest Mead
- 2016 Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer as Taub
- 1997 Little City as Adam
- 2018 Amateur as Coach Gaines
- 2019 Framing John DeLorean as Bill Collins
- 1988 Hairspray as Iggy
- 2009 Darwin's Secret Notebooks as Narrator
- 2013 2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions as Narrator
- Soon The 99'ers
- 2014 Dead Poets in NYC as Self
- 2021 The Eisen Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2022 We Own This City ( 6 episodes ) as Daniel Hersl
- 2021 Law & Order: Organized Crime ( 1 episode ) as Vince Baldi
- 2018 Medal of Honor ( 8 episodes ) as Narrator
- 2006 Six Degrees ( 2 episodes ) as Ray Jones
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 107 episodes ) as Will Gardner
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 1 episode ) as Sean Kelley
- 1998 Sports Night ( 45 episodes ) as Dan Rydell
- 2015 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp ( 8 episodes ) as Blake
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2011 Curiosity ( 14 episodes ) as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2008 In Treatment ( 8 episodes ) as Jake
- 2017 Law & Order True Crime ( 3 episodes ) as Dr. Jerome Oziel
- 2017 Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later ( 8 episodes ) as Blake
- 2016 Match Game ( 1 episode ) as Self - Panelist
- 2013 Masters of Sex ( 10 episodes ) as Dan Logan
- 2024 The Veil ( 6 episodes ) as Max Peterson
- 2020 Away ( 10 episodes ) as Matt Logan
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2023 The Power ( 9 episodes ) as Governor Daniel Dandon
- 2015 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt ( 5 episodes ) as Duke Snyder
- 2019 The Loudest Voice ( 3 episodes ) as Casey Close
- 2026 Best Medicine ( 20 episodes ) as Dr. Martin Best
- 2017 The Handmaid's Tale ( 9 episodes ) as Gabriel Wharton
- 2013 Drunk History ( 1 episode ) as Jay Gould
- 2025 The American Revolution ( 5 episodes ) as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
