Josh Charles

ActorProducerDirectorCrew Sep 15 (age 54) Baltimore, Maryland, USA 1988–2026 (38 year career)

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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

Film

Dead Poets Society

Knox Overstreet

Film

Four Brothers

Detective Fowler

Film

The Good Wife

Will Gardner

Film

S.W.A.T.

T.J. McCabe

Film

Freeheld

Bryan Kelder

Film

After.Life

Tom Peterson

Film

Mothers' Instinct

Damian

Film

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Chris

Filmography

Acting (66)

Movies (39)

Mothers' Instinct

as Damian

Memory

as Isaac

Facing Suicide

as Narrator

Framing John DeLorean

as Bill Collins

Amateur

as Coach Gaines

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

as Chris

The Drowning

as Tom Seymour

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

as Taub

Freeheld

as Bryan Kelder

I Smile Back

as Bruce Brooks

Adult Beginners

as Phil

Bird People

as Gary Newman

Weakness

as Bart

After.Life

as Tom Peterson

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

2009

as Subject #2

5.1

Darwin's Secret Notebooks

as Narrator

The Darwin Awards

as Paramedic

The Ex

as Forrest Mead

Four Brothers

as Detective Fowler

Seeing Other People

as Lou

S.W.A.T.

as T.J. McCabe

Our America

as Dave Isay

Meeting Daddy

as Peter Silverblatt

Muppets from Space

as Agent Barker

Cyclops, Baby

as Brush Brody

Little City

as Adam

Crossworlds

as Joe Talbot

The Grave

as Tyn

Norma Jean & Marilyn

as Eddie Jordan

Pie in the Sky

as Charlie Dunlap

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995

as Bruce (uncredited)

Coldblooded

as Randy

Threesome

as Eddy

Cooperstown

as Jody

Crossing the Bridge

as Mort Golden

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1991

as Bryan

6.1

Murder in Mississippi

as Andrew Goodman

Dead Poets Society

as Knox Overstreet

Hairspray

as Iggy

Television (27)

Best Medicine

2026

as Dr. Martin Best

7.3

The American Revolution

2025

as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)

The Veil

as Max Peterson

The Power

as Governor Daniel Dandon

6.1

We Own This City

2022

as Daniel Hersl

7.2

Law & Order: Organized Crime

as Vince Baldi

The Eisen Hour

as Self - Guest

Away

as Matt Logan

The Loudest Voice

as Casey Close

Medal of Honor

as Narrator

The Handmaid's Tale

as Gabriel Wharton

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

2017

as Blake

6.5

Law & Order True Crime

as Dr. Jerome Oziel

Match Game

as Self - Panelist

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

2015

as Duke Snyder

7.1

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

2015

as Blake

6.4

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

Drunk History

as Jay Gould

Masters of Sex

as Dan Logan

Curiosity

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Good Wife

as Will Gardner

The Good Wife

as Will Gardner

In Treatment

as Jake

Six Degrees

as Ray Jones

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Sean Kelley

Sports Night

as Dan Rydell

Crew (3)

Movies (1)

The Hottest State

2007

Thanks

5.4

Television (2)

Best Medicine

Producer

The Good Wife

Director