Josh Charles
Acting • Born 1971-09-15
Biography
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.
Filmography
67 credits
Dead Poets Society
Movie • 1989
Knox Overstreet
Threesome
Movie • 1994
Eddy
Four Brothers
Movie • 2005
Detective Fowler
Seeing Other People
Movie • 2004
Lou
S.W.A.T.
Movie • 2003
T.J. McCabe
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Movie • 2009
Subject #2
After.Life
Movie • 2009
Tom Peterson
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Movie • 1991
Bryan
Crossworlds
Movie • 1996
Joe Talbot
The Darwin Awards
Movie • 2007
Paramedic
Meeting Daddy
Movie • 2000
Peter Silverblatt
Weakness
Movie • 2010
Bart
Crossing the Bridge
Movie • 1992
Mort Golden
Memory
Movie • 2023
Isaac
Mothers' Instinct
Movie • 2024
Damian
Muppets from Space
Movie • 1999
Agent Barker
Cyclops, Baby
Movie • 1997
Brush Brody
Norma Jean & Marilyn
Movie • 1996
Eddie Jordan
Murder in Mississippi
Movie • 1990
Andrew Goodman
Bird People
Movie • 2014
Gary Newman
Adult Beginners
Movie • 2014
Phil
Our America
Movie • 2002
Dave Isay
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
Movie • 1995
Bruce (uncredited)
Facing Suicide
Movie • 2022
Narrator
I Smile Back
Movie • 2015
Bruce Brooks
Cooperstown
Movie • 1993
Jody
Freeheld
Movie • 2015
Bryan Kelder
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Movie • 2016
Chris
Pie in the Sky
Movie • 1996
Charlie Dunlap
The Grave
Movie • 1996
Tyn
Coldblooded
Movie • 1995
Randy
The Drowning
Movie • 2016
Tom Seymour
The Ex
Movie • 2006
Forrest Mead
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Movie • 2016
Taub
Little City
Movie • 1997
Adam
Amateur
Movie • 2018
Coach Gaines
Framing John DeLorean
Movie • 2019
Bill Collins
Hairspray
Movie • 1988
Iggy
Darwin's Secret Notebooks
Movie • 2009
Narrator
2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions
Movie • 2013
Narrator
The Eisen Hour
TV • 2021
Self - Guest
We Own This City
TV • 2022
Daniel Hersl
Law & Order: Organized Crime
TV • 2021
Vince Baldi
Medal of Honor
TV • 2018
Narrator
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Will Gardner
Six Degrees
TV • 2006
Ray Jones
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Sean Kelley
Sports Night
TV • 1998
Dan Rydell
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
TV • 2015
Blake
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Curiosity
TV • 2011
Self - Narrator (voice)
In Treatment
TV • 2008
Jake
Law & Order True Crime
TV • 2017
Dr. Jerome Oziel
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
TV • 2017
Blake
Match Game
TV • 2016
Self - Panelist
Masters of Sex
TV • 2013
Dan Logan
The Veil
TV • 2024
Max Peterson
Away
TV • 2020
Matt Logan
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
The Power
TV • 2023
Governor Daniel Dandon
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
TV • 2015
Duke Snyder
The Loudest Voice
TV • 2019
Casey Close
Best Medicine
TV • 2026
Dr. Martin Best
The Handmaid's Tale
TV • 2017
Gabriel Wharton
Drunk History
TV • 2013
Jay Gould
The American Revolution
TV • 2025
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest