Josh Charles
Josh Aaron Charles ( born September 15, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland ) is an American actor.
Life
Josh Charles was born the son of Allen and Laura Charles in Baltimore and grew up there. His father is co-owner of a well-known advertising agency and his mother was a newspaper columnist for Self-help questions. In 1982, his parents divorced.
At the age of eight years, Charles began with stand- up comedy and later played four long summer theater at Stage Door Manor Performing Arts Training Center in Loch Sheldrake, New York to improve his acting skills. He graduated at the Baltimore School for the Arts. With the role of Knox Overstreet in the tragicomedy The Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir in 1989, he experienced his breakthrough as an actor.
During his further career, he was equally seen in film as in television productions. On television, he played from 1998 to 2000 in the television series Sports Night, the role of the sports presenter Dan Rydell and since 2009 in the justice series The Good Wife the lawyer Will Gardner. In the first season of the drama series In Treatment - The Therapist (2008 ), he had a role as well.
In addition, Charles is also working regularly in theater. In 2004, he joined New York in a production of Neil LaBute's relationship drama Far from here on. In the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago in 2006, he worked in the premiere of The Well - Appointed Room by Richard Greenberg with. He then played in San Francisco at the American Conservatory Theater in Caryl Churchill's role play A Number, which deals with the subject of human cloning. In 2007 he was seen in the Manhattan Theatre Club in Adam Bock's comedy The Receptionist.