Josh Charles

Q: Has Josh Charles won any awards?

Josh Charles has received several nominations for his work, including a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for 'The Good Wife.'

Q: What was Josh Charles's first film?

Josh Charles made his film debut in 'Dead Poets Society' in 1989, where he played the character Knox Overstreet alongside Robin Williams.

Q: What are some of Josh Charles's successful films?

Some successful films featuring Josh Charles include 'Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead,' 'Four Brothers,' and 'Threesome.'

Q: What is Josh Charles's personal life like?

Josh Charles is married to Rebecca Linger, and they have two children together. He tends to keep his personal life private and out of the media spotlight.

Q: What is Josh Charles's estimated net worth?

Josh Charles's estimated net worth is around $3 million, which he has accumulated through his acting career in film and television.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Josh Charles's career?

A notable milestone in Josh Charles's career is his role in 'The Good Wife,' which not only brought him critical acclaim but also a dedicated fan base.

Q: Has Josh Charles worked in theatre?

Yes, Josh Charles has a background in theatre, having performed in various stage productions before transitioning to film and television.

Known for

Dead Poets Society (1989)

IMDb 8.1 / 10

1989 / Comedy, Drama / 128 min

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential...

S.W.A.T. (2003)

IMDb 6.0 / 10

2003 / Action, Adventure / 117 min

Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out more members, including tough...

Four Brothers (2005)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2005 / Action, Crime / 109 min

Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the killers.

Name

Josh Charles

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Spouses

Rebecca Linger (2001–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Robert Charles, Laura Charles

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV Best Medicine Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in...	Dr. Martin Best	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	TV The American Revolution The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world...	Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2024	TV The Veil Two women play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One...	Max Peterson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2024	Movie Mothers' Instinct Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident...	Damian	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	Movie Memory Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This...	Isaac	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	TV The Power The world of The Power is our world, but for one twist of nature. Suddenly teenage girls develop the power...	Governor Daniel Dandon	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	Movie Facing Suicide FACING SUICIDE combines the poignant personal stories of people impacted by suicide with profiles of scientists at the forefront of...	Narrator	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2022	TV We Own This City The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption...	Daniel Hersl	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2021	TV Law & Order: Organized Crime The detectives of the Organized Crime Control Bureau work to dismantle New York City's most vicious and violent illegal enterprises.	Vince Baldi	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2021	TV The Eisen Hour The Eisen Hour is a weekly hour-long, six-episode series featuring Emmy nominated broadcaster, Rich Eisen. Each week, Eisen will sit...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2020	TV Away American astronaut Emma Green must leave her husband and teenage daughter behind to command an international space crew embarking upon...	Matt Logan	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2019	TV The Loudest Voice The rise and fall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, focusing primarily on the past decade in which Ailes arguably...	Casey Close	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2019	Movie Framing John DeLorean A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to...	Bill Collins	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2018	TV Medal of Honor Honoring service members whose courage merited the awarding of a Medal of Honor, this docudrama series re-creates their inspiring true...	Narrator	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie Amateur 14-year-old basketball phenom Terron Forte has to navigate the under-the-table world of amateur athletics when he is recruited to an...	Coach Gaines	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	TV Law & Order True Crime An anthology series that delves into the players, the crime and the media circus, detailing the day-to-day battles of the...	Dr. Jerome Oziel	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2017	TV Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later A decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising...	Blake	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	TV The Handmaid's Tale Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.	Gabriel Wharton	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2016	Movie The Drowning A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man...	Tom Seymour	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2016	TV Match Game A modern reboot of the classic 70s game show that features two contestants attempting to match the answers of six...	Self - Panelist	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2016	Movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer A financial schemer finds himself in the middle of an international scandal after he becomes a political adviser to the...	Taub	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York...	Chris	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2015	Movie I Smile Back Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who...	Bruce Brooks	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	Movie Freeheld New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits...	Bryan Kelder	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	TV Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp It's the first day of camp in this outrageous prequel to the hilarious 2001 cult classic movie. And at Camp...	Blake	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2015	TV Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world...	Duke Snyder	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	Movie Adult Beginners A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in...	Phil	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2014	Movie Bird People An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.	Gary Newman	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	TV Masters of Sex William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual...	Dan Logan	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	TV Drunk History Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people...	Jay Gould	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2013	Movie 2012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions Believe it, Baltimore, your Ravens are once again Super Bowl Champions! With their thrilling 34-31 victory over the San Francisco...	Narrator	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2011	TV Curiosity Curiosity is an American documentary television series that premiered on August 7, 2011, on the Discovery Channel. Each episode focuses...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2010	Movie Weakness About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.	Bart	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2009	Movie After.Life Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.	Tom Peterson	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2009	Movie Brief Interviews with Hideous Men After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university...	Subject #2	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2009	TV The Good Wife Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and...	Will Gardner	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2009	Movie Darwin's Secret Notebooks Along the wild edges of the Earth, against a stunning backdrop of aerial, underwater, and wildlife photography, evolutionary biologist Armand...	Narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2008	TV In Treatment The intimate confines of psychotherapy sessions are seen from the perspective of a therapist and individual patients.	Jake	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2007	Movie The Darwin Awards After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco...	Paramedic	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2006	Movie The Ex When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm....	Forrest Mead	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	TV Six Degrees Six very different New Yorkers go about their lives without realizing the impact they're having on one another—yet. A mysterious...	Ray Jones	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	Movie Four Brothers Four adopted brothers return to their Detroit hometown when their mother is murdered and vow to exact revenge on the...	Detective Fowler	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Seeing Other People Ed and Alice are two months shy of getting married when she realizes that she wishes she'd had a more...	Lou	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie S.W.A.T. Hondo Harrelson recruits Jim Street to join an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department. Together they seek out...	T.J. McCabe	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2002	Movie Our America The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.	Dave Isay	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie Meeting Daddy An aspiring writer from New York visits his girlfriend's eccentric family in Georgia.	Peter Silverblatt	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1999	TV Law & Order: Special Victims Unit In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...	Sean Kelley	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Muppets from Space When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication...	Agent Barker	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1998	TV Sports Night The offbeat cast and crew of a sports news show deal with professional, personal, and ethical challenges while functioning in...	Dan Rydell	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1997	Movie Little City Best friends Adam and Kevin have a lot in common. Probably too much! In fact, Kevin is carrying on a...	Adam	TMDB 4.1 / 10
1997	Movie Cyclops, Baby The theatrical directorial debut of D.J. Caruso	Brush Brody	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1996	Movie Norma Jean & Marilyn This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves...	Eddie Jordan	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1996	Movie Crossworlds College good guy Joe is drawn into a battle to save the world from arch-enemy Ferris. Joe's heirloom pendant just...	Joe Talbot	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1996	Movie Pie in the Sky A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.	Charlie Dunlap	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Grave Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a...	Tyn	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1995	Movie Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.	Bruce (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Coldblooded Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns...	Randy	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1994	Movie Threesome At a sizable public college, high-minded student Eddy is forced to room with the slovenly Stuart, but the pair strike...	Eddy	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1993	Movie Cooperstown A retired baseball player reflects on the mistakes and problems of the past 35 years when he is overlooked for...	Jody	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1992	Movie Crossing the Bridge A film about three high school friends who find their happy-go-lucky existence tarnished forever the instant they get embroiled in...	Mort Golden	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1991	Movie Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger...	Bryan	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1990	Movie Murder in Mississippi In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to...	Andrew Goodman	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1989	Movie Dead Poets Society At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention...	Knox Overstreet	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1988	Movie Hairspray 'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a...	Iggy	TMDB 6.8 / 10
TBA	Movie The 99'ers U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, who, in 1999, under the scorching summer sun and in a stadium filled with 93,000...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	TV Best Medicine Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2009	TV The Good Wife Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2007	Movie The Hottest State A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 5.5 / 10

Mothers' Instinct

2024 / TMDB 6.9

Memory

2023 / TMDB 7.0

Facing Suicide

2022 / TMDB 5.0

Framing John DeLorean

2019 / TMDB 6.1

Amateur

2018 / TMDB 6.4

The Drowning

2016 / TMDB 4.5

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Got a question about Josh Charles?

What are Josh Charles's most famous roles?

Josh Charles is best known for his roles in 'The Good Wife' as Will Gardner and 'Sports Night' as Dan Rydell. He has also appeared in films like 'Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.'

Has Josh Charles won any awards?

What was Josh Charles's first film?

What are some of Josh Charles's successful films?

What is Josh Charles's personal life like?

What is Josh Charles's estimated net worth?

What is a notable milestone in Josh Charles's career?

Has Josh Charles worked in theatre?