Josh Charles
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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
Filmography
Best Medicine
2026
as Dr. Martin Best
The American Revolution
2025
as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Mothers' Instinct
2024
as Damian
The Veil
2024
as Max Peterson
Memory
2023
as Isaac
The Power
2023
as Governor Daniel Dandon
Facing Suicide
2022
as Narrator
We Own This City
2022
as Daniel Hersl
The Eisen Hour
2021
as Self - Guest
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
as Vince Baldi
Away
2020
as Matt Logan
Framing John DeLorean
2019
as Bill Collins
The Loudest Voice
2019
as Casey Close
Amateur
2018
as Coach Gaines
Medal of Honor
2018
as Narrator
Law & Order True Crime
2017
as Dr. Jerome Oziel
Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017
as Blake
The Handmaid's Tale
2017
as Gabriel Wharton
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
as Chris
The Drowning
2016
as Tom Seymour
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
as Taub
Match Game
2016
as Self - Panelist
I Smile Back
2015
as Bruce Brooks
Freeheld
2015
as Bryan Kelder
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015
as Blake
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
as Duke Snyder
Bird People
2014
as Gary Newman
Adult Beginners
2014
as Phil
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions
2013
as Narrator
Masters of Sex
2013
as Dan Logan
Drunk History
2013
as Jay Gould
Curiosity
2011
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Weakness
2010
as Bart
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009
as Subject #2
After.Life
2009
as Tom Peterson
Darwin's Secret Notebooks
2009
as Narrator
The Good Wife
2009
as Will Gardner
In Treatment
2008
as Jake
The Darwin Awards
2007
as Paramedic
The Ex
2006
as Forrest Mead
Six Degrees
2006
as Ray Jones
Four Brothers
2005
as Detective Fowler
Seeing Other People
2004
as Lou
S.W.A.T.
2003
as T.J. McCabe
Our America
2002
as Dave Isay
Meeting Daddy
2000
as Peter Silverblatt
Muppets from Space
1999
as Agent Barker
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Sean Kelley
Sports Night
1998
as Dan Rydell
Cyclops, Baby
1997
as Brush Brody
Little City
1997
as Adam
Crossworlds
1996
as Joe Talbot
Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996
as Eddie Jordan
Pie in the Sky
1996
as Charlie Dunlap
The Grave
1996
as Tyn
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Bruce (uncredited)
Coldblooded
1995
as Randy
Threesome
1994
as Eddy
Cooperstown
1993
as Jody
Crossing the Bridge
1992
as Mort Golden
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991
as Bryan
Murder in Mississippi
1990
as Andrew Goodman
Dead Poets Society
1989
as Knox Overstreet
Hairspray
1988
as Iggy