Josh Charles

Known for: Acting
Born: September 15, 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Movies: 41

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.

Best-Known Movies

8.3

Dead Poets Society

1989

6.2

S.W.A.T.

2003

6.8

Four Brothers

2005

6.3

After.Life

2009

6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2016

6.8

Mothers' Instinct

2024

7.2

Freeheld

2015

6.2

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1991

6.8

Hairspray

1988

6.4

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995

Filmography

2024	Mothers' Instinct	Damian
2023	Memory	Isaac
2022	Facing Suicide	Narrator
2019	Framing John DeLorean	Bill Collins
2018	Amateur	Coach Gaines
2016	The Drowning	Tom Seymour
2016	Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer	Taub
2016	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Chris
2015	I Smile Back	Bruce Brooks
2015	Freeheld	Bryan Kelder
2014	Adult Beginners	Phil
2014	Dead Poets in NYC	Self
2014	Bird People	Gary Newman
2013	2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions	Narrator
2010	Weakness	Bart
2009	After.Life	Tom Peterson
2009	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men	Subject #2
2009	Darwin's Secret Notebooks	Narrator
2007	The Darwin Awards	Paramedic
2006	The Ex	Forrest Mead
2005	Four Brothers	Detective Fowler
2004	Seeing Other People	Lou
2003	S.W.A.T.	T.J. McCabe
2002	Our America	Dave Isay
2000	Meeting Daddy	Peter Silverblatt
1999	Muppets from Space	Agent Barker
1997	Little City	Adam
1997	Cyclops, Baby	Brush Brody
1996	Norma Jean & Marilyn	Eddie Jordan
1996	Crossworlds	Joe Talbot
1996	Pie in the Sky	Charlie Dunlap
1996	The Grave	Tyn
1995	Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead	Bruce (uncredited)
1995	Coldblooded	Randy
1994	Threesome	Eddy
1993	Cooperstown	Jody
1992	Crossing the Bridge	Mort Golden
1991	Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead	Bryan
1990	Murder in Mississippi	Andrew Goodman
1989	Dead Poets Society	Knox Overstreet
1988	Hairspray	Iggy

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