Josh Charles

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Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor.

Biography

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 the Stagedoor Manor performing arts camp in New York.

Career

Charles' film debut was in fellow Baltimore resident John Waters’s "Hairspray" in 1988. The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in the Oscar-winning "Dead Poets Society". Subsequent film roles have included "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", "Threesome", "Pie in the Sky", "Muppets from Space", "S.W.A.T" and "Four Brothers".

On television, Charles played sports anchor Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning "Sports Night", which ran for two years (1998-2000) on ABC and earned Charles a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He also recently appeared in several episodes of HBO's "In Treatment".

In 1986, Charles headlined a production of Jonathan Marc Sherman's "Confrontation". 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.

Personal life

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. [http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/7643469]

Filmography

* "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" (2008) - #2
* "In Treatment" (2008) (TV Series) - Jake
* "Six Degrees" (2007) (TV Series) - Ray Smith
* "The Ex" (2007) - Forrest Mead
* "The Darwin Awards" (2006) - Paramedic
* "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

References

External links

*imdb name|id=00001038|name=Josh Charles
* [http://www.nibis.de/~deadpoets/kritiken/abrahams.htm People Weekly 1989 interview]
* [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=119900&title=josh-charles Josh Charles on 'The Daily Show', 13 April 1999]
* [http://www.addictsports.com/baseball/showthread.php?t=17624 Rob Neyer interview 2003]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=120943732 Josh Charles' MySpace profile]