Josh Charles

Josh Charles

1971-09-15 Baltimore, Maryland, USA 40 Credits

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.

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Mothers' Instinct

Mothers' Instinct

2024

as Damian

6.9
Acting

Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their liv...

Memory

Memory

2023

as Isaac

7.1
Acting

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her hom...

Facing Suicide

Facing Suicide

2022

as Narrator

5.0
Acting

FACING SUICIDE combines the poignant personal stories of people impacted by suicide with profiles of scientists at the forefront of research to reveal...

Framing John DeLorean

Framing John DeLorean

2019

as Bill Collins

6.1
Acting

A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom an...

Amateur

Amateur

2018

as Coach Gaines

6.4
Acting

14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an elite NCAA prep s...

The Drowning

The Drowning

2016

as Tom Seymour

4.5
Acting

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a m...

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

2016

as Taub

5.5
Acting

A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the new Prime Minister of Israel.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2016

as Chris

6.3
Acting

In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her co...

I Smile Back

I Smile Back

2015

as Bruce Brooks

6.2
Acting

Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with t...

Freeheld

Freeheld

2015

as Bryan Kelder

7.2
Acting

New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was ...

Adult Beginners

Adult Beginners

2014

as Phil

5.4
Acting

A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move ...

Bird People

Bird People

2014

as Gary Newman

5.9
Acting

An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Weakness

Weakness

2010

as Bart

4.6
Acting

About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.

After.Life

After.Life

2009

as Tom Peterson

6.3
Acting

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

2009

as Subject #2

5.1
Acting

After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is le...

Darwin's Secret Notebooks

Darwin's Secret Notebooks

2009

as Narrator

7.5
Acting

Along the wild edges of the Earth, against a stunning backdrop of aerial, underwater, and wildlife photography, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi le...

The Hottest State

The Hottest State

2007

Thanks

5.4

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

The Ex

The Ex

2006

as Forrest Mead

5.2
Acting

When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to ad...

The Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards

2006

as Paramedic

5.6
Acting

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becom...

Four Brothers

Four Brothers

2005

as Detective Fowler

6.8
Acting

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Seeing Other People

Seeing Other People

2004

as Lou

5.8
Acting

Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a more active love life while still single. Reluctantly...

S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T.

2003

as T.J. McCabe

6.2
Acting

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough D...

Our America

Our America

2002

as Dave Isay

7.0
Acting

The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.

Meeting Daddy

Meeting Daddy

2000

as Peter Silverblatt

2.0
Acting

An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.

Muppets from Space

Muppets from Space

1999

as Agent Barker

6.1
Acting

When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him...

Little City

Little City

1997

as Adam

4.0
Acting

Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a torrid affair with Adam's girlfriend, Nina, on th...

Cyclops, Baby

Cyclops, Baby

1997

as Brush Brody

Acting

The theatrical directorial debut of D.J. Caruso

Norma Jean & Marilyn

Norma Jean & Marilyn

1996

as Eddie Jordan

6.2
Acting

This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to furthe...

Crossworlds

Crossworlds

1996

as Joe Talbot

5.1
Acting

College good guy Joe is drawn into a battle to save the world from arch-enemy Ferris. Joe's heirloom pendant just happens to be the key to the staff t...

Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky

1996

as Charlie Dunlap

6.6
Acting

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

The Grave

The Grave

1996

as Tyn

4.9
Acting

Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995

as Bruce (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Coldblooded

Coldblooded

1995

as Randy

6.4
Acting

Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned ...

Threesome

Threesome

1994

as Eddy

6.4
Acting

At a sizable public college, high-minded student Eddy is forced to room with the slovenly Stuart, but the pair strike up a surprising friendship. When...

Cooperstown

1993

as Jody

2.7
Acting

A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fam...

Crossing the Bridge

Crossing the Bridge

1992

as Mort Golden

5.8
Acting

A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in a drug-running sche...

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1991

as Bryan

6.1
Acting

Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings...

Murder in Mississippi

Murder in Mississippi

1990

as Andrew Goodman

6.7
Acting

In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registratio...

Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

1989

as Knox Overstreet

8.3
Acting

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize th...

Hairspray

Hairspray

1988

as Iggy

6.8
Acting

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using...