
Josh Charles
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.
Filmography

2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions
2013 · 10.0

Cyclops, Baby
1997 · 10.0

Dead Poets Society
1989 · 8.3

The Handmaid's Tale
2017 · 8.1

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · 8.0

Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021 · 7.9

In Treatment
2008 · 7.7

The Good Wife
2009 · 7.6

Darwin's Secret Notebooks
2009 · 7.5

The Loudest Voice
2019 · 7.4

Sports Night
1998 · 7.3

Freeheld
2015 · 7.2

We Own This City
2022 · 7.2

Best Medicine
2026 · 7.1

Masters of Sex
2013 · 7.1

Law & Order True Crime
2017 · 7.1

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015 · 7.1

Memory
2023 · 7.0

Drunk History
2013 · 6.9

Mothers' Instinct
2024 · 6.8

Four Brothers
2005 · 6.8

Hairspray
1988 · 6.8

Away
2020 · 6.5

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
2017 · 6.5

The Veil
2024 · 6.5

Medal of Honor
2018 · 6.5

Pie in the Sky
1996 · 6.5

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995 · 6.4

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
2015 · 6.4

Amateur
2018 · 6.4

Threesome
1994 · 6.4

After.Life
2009 · 6.3

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016 · 6.3

Coldblooded
1995 · 6.3

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991 · 6.2

S.W.A.T.
2003 · 6.2

Muppets from Space
1999 · 6.1

The Power
2023 · 6.1

Framing John DeLorean
2019 · 6.1

I Smile Back
2015 · 6.1

Norma Jean & Marilyn
1996 · 6.1

The American Revolution
2025 · 6.1

Bird People
2014 · 5.9

Six Degrees
2006 · 5.8

Seeing Other People
2004 · 5.8

Crossing the Bridge
1992 · 5.7

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016 · 5.5

The Darwin Awards
2007 · 5.5

Adult Beginners
2014 · 5.4

The Ex
2006 · 5.3

The Grave
1996 · 5.3

Crossworlds
1996 · 5.2

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009 · 5.1

Facing Suicide
2022 · 5.0

Meeting Daddy
2000 · 4.7

Weakness
2010 · 4.6

The Drowning
2016 · 4.5

Cooperstown
1993 · 4.5

Little City
1997 · 4.1
The 99'ers
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