1. Joshua Charles Malina was born on January 17,1966 and is an American film and stage actor known as Will Bailey on The West Wing, Jeremy Goodwin on Sports Night, David Rosen on Scandal, and Caltech President Siebert on The Big Bang Theory.
22 Facts About Joshua Malina
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Joshua Malina's father was an attorney, investment banker and Broadway producer.
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Joshua Malina attended middle school at Westchester Day School and high school at the Horace Mann School.
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Joshua Malina made his acting debut in the Broadway production of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men, and later in the play's run moved into a major role.
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Joshua Malina had contacted Sorkin initially at the suggestion of his parents when he first went to New York City, as they knew Sorkin was a high-school classmate and friend of Joshua Malina's cousins.
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Joshua Malina has since appeared in many Sorkin film and TV projects.
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In March 2023, Joshua Malina took over the lead role of Hermann Merz in the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt.
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Joshua Malina's first on-screen appearance was a three-line, five-word role in the film version of A Few Good Men, where he has said he appreciated the dedication that star Jack Nicholson showed by performing his lines in the scene himself even though his character was off-screen and could easily have been played for him by a crew member.
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Joshua Malina played two different characters over four episodes on the talk-show satire The Larry Sanders Show.
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Joshua Malina appeared first in 1993 as Robert Brody, a fictional reporter for the real-life magazine Entertainment Weekly, to whom actor John Ritter gives a scathing interview after having his appearance in the show cancelled to make room for musician Warren Zevon to play a second song.
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Five years later, Joshua Malina returned in a recurring role as Kenny Mitchell, a sleazy network executive who pushes Larry Sanders out of the show in favor of Jon Stewart.
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From 1998 to 2000, Joshua Malina starred as character Jeremy Goodwin on Sorkin's Sports Night, a show that attracted him from the moment Sorkin sent him the pilot script.
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Joshua Malina stole some of Bradley Whitford's letterhead stationery and used it in an elaborate prank.
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In 2007, Joshua Malina became one of the four stars of the short-lived ABC dramedy Big Shots.
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Joshua Malina's character, Karl Mixworthy, was a pharmaceutical company executive juggling a wife and a mistress, who meet when the jilted lover tries to expose him to his wife but befriends her instead.
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Joshua Malina is a co-creator and producer of Bravo's cable TV series Celebrity Poker Showdown.
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From 2011 to 2019, Joshua Malina appeared as University President Siebert on The Big Bang Theory.
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In 2012, Joshua Malina held a recurring role on ABC's Scandal as Assistant US Attorney David Rosen.
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Joshua Malina was promoted to a series regular for season 2.
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Joshua Malina co-hosted the podcast The West Wing Weekly with Hrishikesh Hirway.
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In 2004, Joshua Malina was a participant in the first-ever national television advertising campaign supporting donations to Jewish federations.
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In 1992, Joshua Malina met costume designer Melissa Merwin through his friendship with her sister Jennifer, and Jennifer's then-husband, actor Timothy Busfield.