Josh Charles

Known for: Acting

Born: 1971-09-15 (age 54)

From: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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.

Filmography (68)

TV★ 7.2
Best Medicine
2026
as Dr. Martin Best
TV★ 5.9
The American Revolution
2025
as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
TV★ 6.5
The Veil
2024
as Max Peterson
MOVIE★ 6.8
Mothers' Instinct
2024
as Damian
MOVIE★ 7.0
Memory
2023
as Isaac
TV★ 6.1
The Power
2023
as Governor Daniel Dandon
MOVIE★ 5.0
Facing Suicide
2022
as Narrator
TV★ 7.1
We Own This City
2022
as Daniel Hersl
TV★ 7.9
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
as Vince Baldi
TV★ 5.0
The Eisen Hour
2021
as Self - Guest
TV★ 6.5
Away
2020
as Matt Logan
TV★ 7.4
The Loudest Voice
2019
as Casey Close
MOVIE★ 6.1
Framing John DeLorean
2019
as Bill Collins
TV★ 6.7
Medal of Honor
2018
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.4
Amateur
2018
as Coach Gaines
TV★ 7.2
Law & Order True Crime
2017
as Dr. Jerome Oziel
TV★ 6.4
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017
as Blake
TV★ 8.2
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
as Gabriel Wharton
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Drowning
2016
as Tom Seymour
TV★ 6.4
Match Game
2016
as Self - Panelist
MOVIE★ 5.5
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
as Taub
MOVIE★ 6.3
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
as Chris
MOVIE★ 6.1
I Smile Back
2015
as Bruce Brooks
MOVIE★ 7.2
Freeheld
2015
as Bryan Kelder
TV★ 6.4
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015
as Blake
TV★ 7.1
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
as Duke Snyder
MOVIE★ 5.4
Adult Beginners
2014
as Phil
MOVIE★ 5.9
Bird People
2014
as Gary Newman
TV★ 5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
TV★ 5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
TV★ 7.1
Masters of Sex
2013
as Dan Logan
TV★ 6.8
Drunk History
2013
as Jay Gould
MOVIE★ 10.0
2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions
2013
as Narrator
TV★ 7.1
Curiosity
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE★ 4.6
Weakness
2010
as Bart
MOVIE★ 6.3
After.Life
2009
as Tom Peterson
MOVIE★ 5.1
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
as Subject #2
TV★ 7.6
The Good Wife
2009
as Will Gardner
MOVIE★ 7.5
Darwin's Secret Notebooks
2009
as Narrator
TV★ 7.6
In Treatment
2008
as Jake
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Darwin Awards
2007
as Paramedic
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Ex
2006
as Forrest Mead
TV★ 5.8
Six Degrees
2006
as Ray Jones
MOVIE★ 6.8
Four Brothers
2005
as Detective Fowler
MOVIE★ 5.9
Seeing Other People
2004
as Lou
MOVIE★ 6.2
S.W.A.T.
2003
as T.J. McCabe
MOVIE★ 8.0
Our America
2002
as Dave Isay
MOVIE★ 4.7
Meeting Daddy
2000
as Peter Silverblatt
TV★ 8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Sean Kelley
MOVIE★ 6.1
Muppets from Space
1999
as Agent Barker
TV★ 7.3
Sports Night
1998
as Dan Rydell
TV★ 4.3
The View
1997
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.1
Little City
1997
as Adam
MOVIE★ 10.0
Cyclops, Baby
1997
as Brush Brody
MOVIE★ 6.2
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Eddie Jordan
MOVIE★ 5.2
Crossworlds
1996
as Joe Talbot
MOVIE★ 6.6
Pie in the Sky
1996
as Charlie Dunlap
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Grave
1996
as Tyn
MOVIE★ 6.5
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Bruce (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.2
Coldblooded
1995
as Randy
MOVIE★ 6.4
Threesome
1994
as Eddy
MOVIE★ 4.5
Cooperstown
1993
as Jody
MOVIE★ 5.7
Crossing the Bridge
1992
as Mort Golden
MOVIE★ 6.2
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
as Bryan
MOVIE★ 6.9
Murder in Mississippi
1990
as Andrew Goodman
MOVIE★ 8.3
Dead Poets Society
1989
as Knox Overstreet
MOVIE★ 6.8
Hairspray
1988
as Iggy
MOVIE
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