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Josh Charles

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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.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

Dead Poets Society

Appears in a KinoChain journey

S.W.A.T.

As T.J. McCabe

We Own This City

As Daniel Hersl

The Veil

As Max Peterson

Hairspray

As Iggy

The Ex

As Forrest Mead

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

As Bryan

Freeheld

As Bryan Kelder

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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The Classroom Without Walls

From a London schoolroom to a Parisian banlieue, a journey through films where teaching becomes an act of defiance and connection.

8 films

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The Veil

2024 · Max Peterson

We Own This City

2022 · Daniel Hersl

Freeheld

2015 · Bryan Kelder

The Darwin Awards

2007 · Paramedic

The Ex

2006 · Forrest Mead

S.W.A.T.

2003 · T.J. McCabe

Coldblooded

1995 · Randy

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

1991 · Bryan

Dead Poets Society

1989 · Knox Overstreet

Hairspray

1988 · Iggy