Josh Charles
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Joshua Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Charles was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura, a gossip columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Charles began his career performing stand-up comedy from the age of 9. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in New York.
[edit] Career
Charles's film debut was in fellow Baltimore resident John Waters’s Hairspray (1988), followed in 1989 by a classic performance as Knox Overstreet in the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society.
On television, Charles played the leading role of sports anchor Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning comedy/drama Sports Night, which ran for two years on ABC and earned Charles a Screen Actors Guild nomination. His most recent television project is the HBO series In Treatment.
In 1986, Charles received a Festival Week Award for Best Actor for his role in the Stagedoor Manor production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's production of Confrontation, co-starring Renee Weldon. In 2004, he appeared on stage in New York in a revival of Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here, which received a Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble Cast. In January 2006 he appeared in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and followed this with a run at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, portraying the cloned brothers in Caryl Churchill's A Number. In 2007, he appeared in Adam Bock's The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
[edit] Personal life
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Charles is a fan of the Baltimore Orioles (baseball) and Baltimore Ravens (American football) teams. In 2004/5 he championed a fantasy football draft on the NFL Network.[1]
[edit] Filmography
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2008) - #2
- In Treatment (2008) (TV Series) - Jake
- Six Degrees (2007) (TV Series) - Ray Smith
- The Darwin Awards (2006)
- Four Brothers (2005) - Detective Fowler
- Stella: Meeting Girls (2005) (TV) - Jeremy
- Seeing Other People (2004) - Lou
- S.W.A.T. (2003) – T J McCabe
- Our America (2002) (TVM)) - Dave Isay
- My Father's House (2002) - Coach (scenes deleted, but included on DVD release)
- Zog's Place (2001) (documentary) - Himself
- Meeting Daddy (2000) - Peter Silverblatt
- Muppets from Space (1999) - Agent Barker
- Sports Night (1998-2000) (TV) - Dan Rydell
- Little City (1997) - Adam
- The Underworld (1997) (TVM) - Ehrlich
- Cyclops, Baby (1997) - Brush Brody
- Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) (TVM) - Eddie Jordan
- Pie in the Sky (1996) - Charlie Dunlap
- Crossworlds (1996) - Joe Talbot
- The Grave (1996) - Tyn
- Coldblooded (1995) - Randy
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) - Bruce (uncredited)
- Threesome (1994) - Eddy
- Cooperstown (1993) (TVM) - Jody
- Crossing the Bridge (1992) - Mort Golden
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) - Bryan
- Murder in Mississippi (1990) (TVM) - Andrew Goodman
- Dead Poets Society (1989) - Knox Overstreet
- Hairspray (1988) - Iggy
