30 Facts About Joshua Jackson

Joshua Carter Jackson was born on June 11,1978 and is a Canadian-American actor.

Joshua Jackson is known for his portrayals of Pacey Witter on The WB's teen drama Dawson's Creek, Peter Bishop in the Fox science fiction series Fringe, a troubled married man on Showtime's The Affair, and Christopher Duntsch in the Peacock crime drama series Dr Death.

Joshua Jackson was born on June 11,1978, in Vancouver, British Columbia to parents John and Fiona.

Joshua Jackson's father is from Texas, and his mother is a native of Ballyfermot, a surburb of Dublin, Ireland.

Joshua Jackson immigrated to North America in the late 1960s.

Joshua Jackson has a younger sister, Aisleagh, and two older half brothers, Jonathan and Lyman.

Joshua Jackson lived in California until the age of 8 when he moved to Vancouver with his mother and younger sister; he has said that his father was a bad parent and husband and abandoned the family when they were in the US He attended Ideal Mini School and later switched to Kitsilano Secondary School.

Joshua Jackson started acting in a small role in the film Crooked Hearts in 1991.

Joshua Jackson went on to appear as Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek, which was created by Kevin Williamson and ran on the WB network from 1998 to 2003, and starred James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams, and Katie Holmes.

Joshua Jackson was cast as "Beau" in the movie Gossip in 2000 with actors James Marsden, Kate Hudson and Norman Reedus.

Shortly after Dawson's Creek ended in 2003, Joshua Jackson played the lead role in films alongside Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, and Donald Sutherland.

In 2005, Joshua Jackson moved to the UK and made his stage debut on the London West End with Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's two-man play, A Life in the Theatre.

Joshua Jackson said that he would consider returning to the stage, to try his hand on Broadway.

Joshua Jackson played a lead role in Shutter, a US remake of film of the same name.

Joshua Jackson starred and acted as executive producer in the Canadian independent film One Week, which opened on March 6,2009.

From 2008 to 2013, Joshua Jackson played the lead role of Peter Bishop in the science-fiction series Fringe, created by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.

Joshua Jackson was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film One Week.

Joshua Jackson held and hosted the satirical Pacey-Con in 2010, directly across the street from the Comic-Con, sporting a bowling shirt and giving out fan fiction, written by Dawson's Creek fans, to those waiting in the Comic-Con entrance line.

In 2013, Joshua Jackson appeared in the IFC film Inescapable with Marisa Tomei and Alexander Siddig.

Joshua Jackson wrote the first story from the comic book trilogy Beyond the Fringe, titled "Peter and the Machine".

Joshua Jackson starred in the successful television show The Affair, where he played Cole Lockhart, the protagonist husband of the unfaithful Alison Lockhart.

In March 2018, Joshua Jackson made his theatrical debut on Broadway in Children of a Lesser God, where he played James Leeds, an unconventional teacher at a school for the deaf who gets in a conflicted professional and romantic relationship with a deaf former student, Sarah Norman.

In 2019, Joshua Jackson starred as defense attorney Mickey Joseph in the miniseries When They See Us.

In 2020, Joshua Jackson co-starred with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in the miniseries Little Fires Everywhere based on the novel by Celeste Ng.

Joshua Jackson was cast as Dr Christopher Duntsch, a neurosurgeon who was convicted of intentionally maiming his patient, in Dr Death which was based on the podcast of the same name, replacing Jamie Dornan.

In 2023, Joshua Jackson played the lead in the series Fatal Attraction with Lizzy Caplan, inspired by the 1980s thriller film of the same name.

Joshua Jackson was in a relationship with Dawson's Creek co-star Katie Holmes during the first two seasons of the show's run.

Joshua Jackson began a relationship with actress Jodie Turner-Smith in 2018.

Joshua Jackson previously lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Dawson's Creek was filmed, and in New York City, where Fringe filmed its first season.

Joshua Jackson is a fan of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team.