Joshua Aaron "Josh" Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor.
Charles was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura, a gossip columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Charles began his career performing stand-up comedy from the age of nine. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in New York, and attended the Baltimore Sch...
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Joshua Aaron "Josh" Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor.
Charles was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura, a gossip columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Charles began his career performing stand-up comedy from the age of nine. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in New York, and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts.
Charles' film debut was in fellow Baltimore resident John Waters' Hairspray in 1988. The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society. Subsequent film roles have included Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Threesome, Pie in the Sky, Muppets from Space, S.W.A.T and Four Brothers. In 2009, he'll appear in After.Life alongside Christina Ricci and Liam Neeson and in John Krasinski's directorial debut, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
On television, Charles played...
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