1. Joshua Aaron Charles was born on September 15,1971 and is an American film, television, and theater actor.
15 Facts About Josh Charles
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Josh Charles 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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Josh Charles is Jewish on his father's side, and he has described himself as Jewish.
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Josh Charles began his career performing comedy at the age of 9.
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Josh Charles attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he was a classmate of Jada Pinkett and Tupac Shakur.
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On television, Josh Charles played sports anchor Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night, which ran for two years and earned Josh Charles a Screen Actors Guild nomination.
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In 2008, Josh Charles played the role of Jake in season one of HBO's In Treatment.
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Also in 2011, Josh Charles narrated the debut episode for NFL Network's A Football Life on New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.
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In 2022, Josh Charles starred in We Own This City, an HBO limited series.
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Josh Charles appeared off-Broadway in Annie Baker's The Antipodes at the Signature Theatre in 2017.
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Josh Charles made his Broadway debut in Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee at the Hayes Theater in 2018.
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Josh Charles appeared in Taylor Swift's music video for Fortnight in 2024.
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In September 2013, Josh Charles married ballet dancer and author Sophie Flack, with whom he lives in New York City.
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Josh Charles was born, raised and educated in Baltimore, he got his first big acting break in a John Waters film, and his family still lives in the city.
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Josh Charles is famously a big fan of the Ravens and Orioles, and follows city politics closely.