Josh Charles

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Josh Charles

Acting 55 September 15, 1971

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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…

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Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

8.3 1989 Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

8.0 1999 TV Show
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.8 2014 TV Show
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

8.2 2017 TV Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

5.1 2014 TV Show
S.W.A.T.

S.W.A.T.

6.2 2003 Movie
The View

The View

4.3 1997 TV Show
Four Brothers

Four Brothers

6.8 2005 Movie
The Good Wife

The Good Wife

7.6 2009 TV Show
After.Life

After.Life

6.3 2009 Movie
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

6.3 2016 Movie
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

7.1 2015 TV Show

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Best Medicine

    TV show Dr. Martin Best

  2. 2025
    The American Revolution

    TV show Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)

  3. 2024
    The Veil

    TV show Max Peterson

  4. 2024
    Mothers' Instinct

    Movie Damian

  5. 2023
    Memory

    Movie Isaac

  6. 2023
    The Power

    TV show Governor Daniel Dandon

  7. 2022
    Facing Suicide

    Movie Narrator

  8. 2022
    We Own This City

    TV show Daniel Hersl

  9. 2021
    Law & Order: Organized Crime

    TV show Vince Baldi

  10. 2021
    The Eisen Hour

    TV show Self - Guest

  11. 2020
    Away

    TV show Matt Logan

  12. 2019
    The Loudest Voice

    TV show Casey Close

  13. 2019
    Framing John DeLorean

    Movie Bill Collins

  14. 2018
    Medal of Honor

    TV show Narrator

  15. 2018
    Amateur

    Movie Coach Gaines

  16. 2017
    Law & Order True Crime

    TV show Dr. Jerome Oziel

More credits
  1. 2017
    Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

    TV show Blake

  2. 2017
    The Handmaid's Tale

    TV show Gabriel Wharton

  3. 2016
    The Drowning

    Movie Tom Seymour

  4. 2016
    Match Game

    TV show Self - Panelist

  5. 2016
    Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer

    Movie Taub

  6. 2016
    Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

    Movie Chris

  7. 2015
    I Smile Back

    Movie Bruce Brooks

  8. 2015
    Freeheld

    Movie Bryan Kelder

  9. 2015
    Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

    TV show Blake

  10. 2015
    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

    TV show Duke Snyder

  11. 2014
    Adult Beginners

    Movie Phil

  12. 2014
    Bird People

    Movie Gary Newman

  13. 2014
    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    TV show Self

  14. 2014
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    TV show Self

  15. 2013
    Masters of Sex

    TV show Dan Logan

  16. 2013
    Drunk History

    TV show Jay Gould

  17. 2013
    2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions

    Movie Narrator

  18. 2011
    Curiosity

    TV show Self - Narrator (voice)

  19. 2010
    Weakness

    Movie Bart

  20. 2009
    After.Life

    Movie Tom Peterson

  21. 2009
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

    Movie Subject #2

  22. 2009
    The Good Wife

    TV show Will Gardner

  23. 2009
    Darwin's Secret Notebooks

    Movie Narrator

  24. 2008
    In Treatment

    TV show Jake