Josh Charles Biography

Josh Charles (Joshua Aaron Charles) is an American actor best known for his roles as Dan Rydell on Sports Night and 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.

Josh Charles Age | How Old Is Josh Charles

He was born on September 15, 1971 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is 51 years old as of 2022.

Josh Charles Height | How Tall Is Josh Charles

He stands at a height of 5 feet and 11 inches (1.8 m).

Josh Charles Family

He is the son of Laura (née Heckscher), a gossip columnist for The Baltimore Sun newspaper, and Allan Charles, an advertising executive. Charles has a brother called Jeff.

Josh Charles Wife | Josh Charles Married | Josh Charles Wedding

In September 2013, got married ballet dancer and author Sophie Flack. The couple has two children; a son born on December 9, 2014, and a daughter born on August 23, 2018.

Josh Charles Baby

On August 23, 2018, Charles reveals on his Instagram that his wife Flack had given birth to their second child, a daughter.

Josh Charles Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars which he has earned through his acting career.

Josh Charles career

He started his career performing comedy at the age of nine. As a teenager, Charles spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in New York, and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts.

His film debut was in 1988 in fellow Baltimore native John Waters’ Hairspray. Subsequent film roles have included Threesome, S.W.A.T, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Muppets from Space, Pie in the Sky, Crossing the Bridge, Four Brothers, After.Life, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

On television, Charles played sports anchor Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin’s Emmy Award-winning Sports Night, which ran for two years from 1998 to 2000 on ABC and earned Charles a Screen Actors Guild nomination. In 2008, he played the role of Jake in Season 1 of HBO’s In Treatment.

In 1986, he headlined a production of Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Confrontation. In 2004, Charles appeared on stage in New York in a revival of Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here, which received a Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble Cast.

In January 2006, he appeared in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. He followed this with a run at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, portraying the cloned brothers in Caryl Churchill’s A Number.

In 2007, Charles appeared in Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2011, he was the narrator for NFL Network’s A Football Life’s debut episode on New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.

Josh Charles Jewish

Charles is of Jewish heritage on his father’s side, and has described himself as Jewish.

Josh Charles The Good Wife

Charles played the roles of Dan Rydell on Sports Night; Will Gardner on The Good Wife which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2011 and 2014.

Josh Charles Leaves The Good Wife | Why Did Josh Charles Leave The Good Wife

Josh Charles left Good Wife in 2014 after his contract expired in the fifth season. The decision of whether or not to renew his contract coincided with when he was proposing to his wife and doing some soul-searching about his future.

“Look, it’s a very long season doing a network television show, and somewhere in year 4, I kinda felt burnt out. Michelle and I had a long conversation about it, and I just felt a little fried and that I was ready for something different for me. That’s no reflection on how I feel about the show, it’s just more about what I want to do in my life,” Charles told moderator Charlie Rose.

Josh Charles Dead Poets Society | Josh Charles Dead Poets

In 1989, he starred alongside Ethan Hawke and Robin Williams in the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society where played a role as Knox Overstreet. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and César Award and David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film.

Josh Charles Gay

In 2012, Josh Charles, star of “The Good Wife,” offered an incentive for people to donate to Maryland’s campaign to legalize same-sex marriage.

In a promotion that run through for one month, anyone who donated at least five dollars to Marylanders for Marriage Equality had a shot at the dinner with Charles; an evening that he describes in an email as “exclusive” and “intimate.”

Josh Charles We Own This City

In the 2022 comedy series We Own This City, Josh plays the role of Daniel Hersl.

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