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Josh Charles

Born 1971-09-15
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.

Known For

7.1

Best Medicine

2026 · TV Show

5.9

The American Revolution

2025 · TV Show

6.5

The Veil

2024 · TV Show

6.8

Mothers' Instinct

2024 · Movie

7.0

Memory

2023 · Movie

6.1

The Power

2023 · TV Show

5.0

Facing Suicide

2022 · Movie

7.2

We Own This City

2022 · TV Show

7.9

Law & Order: Organized Crime

2021 · TV Show

5.0

The Eisen Hour

2021 · TV Show

6.5

Away

2020 · TV Show

7.4

The Loudest Voice

2019 · TV Show

6.1

Framing John DeLorean

2019 · Movie

6.5

Medal of Honor

2018 · TV Show

6.4

Amateur

2018 · Movie

7.1

Law & Order True Crime

2017 · TV Show

6.5

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

2017 · TV Show

8.1

The Handmaid's Tale

2017 · TV Show

4.5

The Drowning

2016 · Movie

6.5

Match Game

2016 · TV Show

5.5

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

2016 · Movie

6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

2016 · Movie

6.1

I Smile Back

2015 · Movie

7.2

Freeheld

2015 · Movie

6.4

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

2015 · TV Show

7.1

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2015 · TV Show

5.4

Adult Beginners

2014 · Movie

Dead Poets in NYC

2014 · Movie

5.9

Bird People

2014 · Movie

5.1

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014 · TV Show

5.8

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014 · TV Show

7.1

Masters of Sex

2013 · TV Show

6.9

Drunk History

2013 · TV Show

10.0

2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions

2013 · Movie

7.1

Curiosity

2011 · TV Show

4.6

Weakness

2010 · Movie

6.3

After.Life

2009 · Movie

5.1

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

2009 · Movie

7.6

The Good Wife

2009 · TV Show

7.5

Darwin's Secret Notebooks

2009 · Movie

7.7

In Treatment

2008 · TV Show

5.5

The Darwin Awards

2007 · Movie

5.3

The Ex

2006 · Movie

5.8

Six Degrees

2006 · TV Show

6.8

Four Brothers

2005 · Movie

5.8

Seeing Other People

2004 · Movie

6.2

S.W.A.T.

2003 · Movie

8.0

Our America

2002 · Movie

4.7

Meeting Daddy

2000 · Movie

8.0

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999 · TV Show

6.1

Muppets from Space

1999 · Movie

7.3

Sports Night

1998 · TV Show

4.3

The View

1997 · TV Show

4.1

Little City

1997 · Movie

10.0

Cyclops, Baby

1997 · Movie

6.1

Norma Jean & Marilyn

1996 · Movie

5.2

Crossworlds

1996 · Movie

6.7

Pie in the Sky

1996 · Movie

5.3

The Grave

1996 · Movie

6.4

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995 · Movie

6.2

Coldblooded

1995 · Movie

6.4

Threesome

1994 · Movie

4.5

Cooperstown

1993 · Movie

5.7

Crossing the Bridge

1992 · Movie

6.2

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1991 · Movie

6.9

Murder in Mississippi

1990 · Movie

8.3

Dead Poets Society

1989 · Movie

6.8

Hairspray

1988 · Movie

The 99'ers

— · Movie

Full Filmography

69 titles, newest first

7.1

Best Medicine

2026 · TV Show

5.9

The American Revolution

2025 · TV Show

6.5

The Veil

2024 · TV Show

6.8

Mothers' Instinct

2024 · Movie

7.0

Memory

2023 · Movie

6.1

The Power

2023 · TV Show

5.0

Facing Suicide

2022 · Movie

7.2

We Own This City

2022 · TV Show