Josh Charles

Charles made his film debut in John Waters' Hairspray in 1988 and appeared the following year in Dead Poets Society alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke. His other film credits include Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991), Crossing the Bridge (1992), Threesome (1994), Coldblooded (1995), The Grave (1996), Crossworlds (1996), Pie in the Sky (1996), Cyclops, Baby (1997), Little City (1997), Muppets from Space (1999), Meeting Daddy (2000), S.W.A.T. (2003), Seeing Other People (2004), Four Brothers (2005), The Darwin Awards (2006), The Ex (2006), After.Life (2009), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009), Bird People (2014), Adult Beginners (2014), I Smile Back (2015), Freeheld (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), Norman (2016), The Drowning (2016), Amateur (2018), Framing John DeLorean (2019), Memory (2023), and Mothers' Instinct (2024).

On television, Charles starred as sports anchor Dan Rydell on Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night from 1998 to 2000, earning a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. He appeared in In Treatment (2008) and played Will Gardner on The Good Wife from 2009 to 2016, earning two Emmy Award nominations for the role. His additional television credits include Six Degrees (2007), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2008), Inside Amy Schumer (2014–2016), Masters of Sex (2015), Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2016–2017), Drunk History (2016–2019), Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (2017), Law & Order True Crime (2017), The Loudest Voice (2019), Away (2020), Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021), We Own This City (2022), The Power (2023), The Veil (2024), The Handmaid's Tale (2025), and The American Revolution (2025). In 2026, he took on the main role of Dr. Martin Best in Best Medicine, the American remake of the British series Doc Martin. He also narrated the debut episode of NFL Network's A Football Life in 2011.

Charles' theatre credits include headlining Jonathan Marc Sherman's Confrontation in 1986, appearing in the 2004 revival of Neil LaBute's The Distance from Here, Richard Greenberg's The Well-Appointed Room at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and Caryl Churchill's A Number at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco in 2006, and Adam Bock's The Receptionist at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2007. He appeared in the Off-Broadway production of Annie Baker's The Antipodes at Signature Theatre in 2017 and made his Broadway debut in Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men at the Hayes Theater in 2018.

In 2024, Charles appeared alongside Dead Poets Society co-star Ethan Hawke in Taylor Swift's music video for "Fortnight," featuring Post Malone.