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Josh Brolin
Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). Af…
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Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). After years of decline, Brolin had a resurgence with his starring role in the crime film No Country for Old Men (2007). Brolin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Dan White in the biopic Milk (2008). Brolin's career progressed with roles in W. (2008), True Grit (2010), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Oldboy (2013), Inherent Vice (2014), Everest (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016). He gained wider recognition for playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), including in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018). Brolin also collaborated with filmmaker Denis Villeneuve in the action thriller Sicario (2015) and in the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), in which he played Gurney Halleck.
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2026
Dune: Part Three
Movie Gurney Halleck
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2026
Whalefall
Movie Mitt Gardiner
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2026
The Dog Stars
Movie Bangley
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2026
Horse Power
Movie Narrator
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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self
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2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Movie Mons. Jefferson Wicks
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2025
The American Revolution
TV show George Washington (voice)
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2025
The Running Man
Movie Dan Killian
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2025
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2025
Weapons
Movie Archer
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2025
Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation
Movie Self
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2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross
Movie Narrator
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2024
Brothers
Movie Moke Munger
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2024
Dune: Part Two
Movie Gurney Halleck
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2023
N-Men: The Untold Story
Movie John O’Shei
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2023
Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear
Movie Narrator
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2022
George & Tammy
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Outer Range
TV show Royal Abbott
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2021
Dune
Movie Gurney Halleck
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2021
Flag Day
Movie Uncle Beck
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2021
What If...?
TV show Thanos (voice)
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2021
Marvel Studios Legends
TV show Thanos (archive footage) (uncredited)
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2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Movie Self
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2020
Russo Bros. Pizza Film School
TV show
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2020
Reunited Apart
TV show Self
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
The Tony Alva Story
Movie Self
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2019
Avengers: Endgame
Movie Thanos
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2018
Once Upon a Deadpool
Movie Cable
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2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Movie Matt Graver
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2018
Deadpool 2
Movie Cable
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2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Movie Thanos
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2018
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
Movie Buck Ferguson
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2017
Only the Brave
Movie Eric Marsh
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2016
Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
Ride with Norman Reedus
TV show Self
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2016
Hail, Caesar!
Movie Eddie Mannix
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2016
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
Movie (archive footage)
