About the Performer

Josh Charles is an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Critics’ Choice–nominated film, television, and stage actor. He was most recently seen in the films Framing DeLorean, Amateur, Norman, The Drowning, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Freeheld, I Smile Back, and in Bird People for director Pascale Ferran. He secured his first feature film role in John Waters’s 1986 film Hairspray. The following year, he co-starred as Knox Overstreet in the Academy Award–winning film Dead Poets Society. Other notable film roles include S.W.A.T., Four Brothers, Threesome, Pie in the Sky, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Crossing the Bridge, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, and Seeing Other People.

On television, he spent five seasons playing Will Gardner on the award-winning drama The Good Wife, for which he received two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. Other television work includes Sports Night, In Treatment, Law & Order True Crime, Masters of Sex, Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Stella, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Inside Amy Schumer. He can be seen opposite Hilary Swank in the Netflix series Away.On stage, Josh most recently co-starred on Broadway in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men and in the world premiere of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes for the Signature Theatre. Additional theater credits include the US premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Distance from Here (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble) at MCC, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Caryl Churchill’s A Number at ACT, the world premiere of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at MTC, and The Glass Menagerie and A Dance Lesson at the Long Wharf Theatre.

Josh was born and raised in Baltimore and is an avid sports fan, especially of the Ravens and Orioles. His voice can be heard narrating the NFL Films documentary series A Football Life on the NFL Network. He currently resides in New York with his family.