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
Complete Filmography

Mothers' Instinct
2024
as Damian
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
2023
as Isaac
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
2022
as Narrator
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
2019
as Bill Collins
A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom an...

Amateur
2018
as Coach Gaines
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
2016
as Tom Seymour
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
2016
as Taub
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
2016
as Chris
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
2015
as Bruce Brooks
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
2015
as Bryan Kelder
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
2014
as Phil
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
2014
as Gary Newman
An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.

Weakness
2010
as Bart
About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.

After.Life
2009
as Tom Peterson
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
as Subject #2
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
2009
as Narrator
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
2007
Thanks
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

The Ex
2006
as Forrest Mead
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
2006
as Paramedic
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
2005
as Detective Fowler
Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Seeing Other People
2004
as Lou
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.
2003
as T.J. McCabe
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
2002
as Dave Isay
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.

Meeting Daddy
2000
as Peter Silverblatt
An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.

Muppets from Space
1999
as Agent Barker
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
1997
as Adam
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
1997
as Brush Brody
The theatrical directorial debut of D.J. Caruso

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Eddie Jordan
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
1996
as Joe Talbot
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
1996
as Charlie Dunlap
A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

The Grave
1996
as Tyn
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
1995
as Bruce (uncredited)
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Coldblooded
1995
as Randy
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
1994
as Eddy
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
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
1992
as Mort Golden
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
1991
as Bryan
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
1990
as Andrew Goodman
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
1989
as Knox Overstreet
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
1988
as Iggy
'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...