Josh Charles
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Dead Poets Society
1989
Threesome
1994
Four Brothers
2005
Seeing Other People
2004
S.W.A.T.
2003
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
After.Life
2009
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
Crossworlds
1996
The Darwin Awards
2007
Meeting Daddy
2000
Weakness
2010
Crossing the Bridge
1992
Memory
2023
Mothers' Instinct
2024
Muppets from Space
1999
Cyclops, Baby
1997
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
Murder in Mississippi
1990
Bird People
2014
Adult Beginners
2014
Our America
2002
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
Facing Suicide
2022
I Smile Back
2015
Cooperstown
1993
Freeheld
2015
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
Pie in the Sky
1996
The Grave
1996
Coldblooded
1995
The Drowning
2016
The Ex
2006
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
Little City
1997
Amateur
2018
Framing John DeLorean
2019
Hairspray
1988
Darwin's Secret Notebooks
2009
2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions
2013
The Eisen Hour
2021
We Own This City
2022
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
Medal of Honor
2018
The Good Wife
2009
Six Degrees
2006
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Sports Night
1998
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Curiosity
2011
In Treatment
2008
Law & Order True Crime
2017
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017
Match Game
2016
Masters of Sex
2013
The Veil
2024
Away
2020
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Power
2023
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
The Loudest Voice
2019
Best Medicine
2026
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
Drunk History
2013
The American Revolution
2025
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014