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Joshua Aaron "Josh" Charles (born September 15, 1971 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American actor .
Life
Josh Charles was born and raised in Baltimore to Allen and Laura Charles. His father is a co-owner of a well-known advertising agency and his mother is a newspaper columnist for life support issues. In 1982 his parents divorced.
At the age of eight years Charles began with stand-up - comedy and later played four summers Theater at Stage Door Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake ( Sullivan County, New York ), there to improve his acting skills. He graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts . With the role of Knox Overstreet in the tragic comedy The Club of Dead Poets by Peter Weir , he experienced his breakthrough as an actor in 1989.
During his further career he was seen in both film and television productions. On television, he played from 1998 to 2000 in the television series Sports Night on the role of sport - moderator Dan Rydell and from 2009 to 2014 in the Justice series The Good Wife lawyer Will Gardner . He also had a role in the first season of the drama series In Treatment (2008).
Charles also works regularly at the theater. In 2004 he appeared in New York in a production of Neil LaBute's relationship drama Far From Here . In the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago , he worked in the 2006 premiere of The Well-Appointed Room with Richard Greenberg. He then played a role in Caryl Churchill's play A Number , which deals with the subject of human cloning , at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco . In 2007 he appeared in Adam Bock's comedy The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theater Club .
Filmography
- 1988: Hairspray
- 1989: The Dead Poets Society
- 1990: Murder in Mississippi
- 1991: Fast Food Family (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead)
- 1992: ... and they played with life (Crossing the Bridge)
- 1993: Cooperstown - On the streets of memory (Cooperstown)
- 1994: Einsam Zweisam Dreisam (Threesome)
- 1995: Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead)
- 1995: Cold Blooded (Coldblooded)
- 1996: The Grave in the Swamp
- 1996: Crossworlds - Dimension of Infinity (Crossworlds)
- 1996: Mr. Traffic (Pie in the Sky)
- 1996: Marilyn - Your Life (Norma Jean & Marilyn)
- 1997: The Underworld
- 1997: Cyclops, baby
- 1997: City of Love (Little City)
- 1998–2000: Sports Night (TV series, 45 episodes)
- 1999: Muppets from Space (Muppets from Space)
- 2000: Meeting Daddy
- 2002: Our America
- 2003: SWAT - The Special Forces (SWAT)
- 2004: Seeing Other People
- 2005: Four Brothers (Four Brothers)
- 2006: The Darwin Awards
- 2007: Your Ex - My Nightmare (Fast Track)
- 2008: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV series, one episode)
- 2008: In Treatment - Der Therapeut ( In Treatment , TV series, 9 episodes)
- 2009: After.Life
- 2009-2015: Good Wife ( The Good Wife , TV series, 107 episodes)
- 2010: Weakness
- 2014: Bird People
- 2014: Adult Beginners - growing up for beginners (Adult Beginners)
- 2015: I Smile Back
- 2015: Masters of Sex (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 2015: Freeheld - Every love is the same (Freeheld)
- 2016: The Drowning
- 2016: Norman (Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer)
- 2016–2017: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV series, 5 episodes)
- 2017: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (TV series, 6 episodes)
- 2017: Law & Order True Crime (TV series, 7 episodes)
Web links
- Josh Charles at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.stagedoormanor.com/ Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charles, Josh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Charles, Joshua Aaron (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th September 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland , USA |