Joshua Aaron 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. He has a brother, Jeff. Charles allegedly began his career performing stand-up comedy from the age of 8. As a teenager, he spent several summers at the noted Stagedoor Manor performing arts program in New York.
Charles's film debut was in fellow Baltimore resident John Waters’s Hairspray (1988), followed in 1989 by a classic performance as Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society. In 1998, Charles was cast in the leading role of sports anchor Dan Rydell in the acclaimed TV comedy/drama Sports Night, created by Aaron Sorkin. The program ran for two years on ABC in the USA and has since been syndicated worldwide.
Early in his career (1986), Charles received a Festival Week Award for Best Actor for the Stagedoor Manor production of Confrontation, in which...
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The Darwin Awards is a comedy film based on the website of the same name.Written and directed by Finn Taylor, the film premiered January 25, 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival. The film features Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris Penn, Julianna Margulies, Robin Tunney, Brad Hunt, Metallica.Joseph Fiennes stars as Michael Burrows, a detective hired pro tempore by an insurance company to profile Darwin Award candidates who accidentally kill themselves, in order to save the insurance company's money.Winona Ryder plays Siri, a work-hardened yet sweetly authentic insurance investigator working with Burrows.Wilmer Valderrama plays a Film Director who is conincidentially the main point-of-view of the movie. He records Burrows during the final police call that ended his work prematurely, and follows him through his pursuit of a job with the insurance company.The section could be improved by integrating relevant items into the main text and...,
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Four Brothers is a 2005 film starring Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Mark Wahlberg, and Garrett Hedlund. The movie was directed by John Singleton. The film is a remake of the film The Sons of Katie Elder.
The seemingly-random murder of their adoptive mother in a convenience store sends four brothers to Detroit on the path of vengeance when they uncover a tangled criminal web involving a local kingpin.
Although they are not related by blood, the four brothers display the loyalty and love of a real family.
After returning to Detroit for their mother's funeral, four adopted brothers set about avenging their mother's death, though warned not to by childhood friend and investigating officer Lt. Green (Terrence Howard) who admonishes that the police must be allowed to do their job, at the great derision of Bobby (Wahlberg).
Originally under the impression the crime was a simple "robbery-gone-wrong", the brothers soon discover that the robbery was merely a cover for what was, in fact, a...,
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Seeing Other People is a comedy film about a couple that decide to see other people two months before their wedding. It was released in 2004, and is rated R....,
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Threesome is a 1994 film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming. The film is an autobiographical comedy mixed in with some social commentary, and is based on the college memories of Fleming. It was given an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America.
The film starts out with two college students, the shy and intellectual Eddy (Josh Charles) and the All-American jock Stuart (Stephen Baldwin), ending up with a female roommate. The university thought that Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) was a man (based on her name) and thus the three students are forced to live with each other until the university can move Alex to a female residence hall.
Eddy falls in love with Stuart; Alex falls in love and tries unsuccessfully to seduce Eddy; and Stuart is in love with Alex. The trio become good friends and scare off anyone who tries to seduce the other. Eventually, Alex, Stuart and Eddy agree to have an actual threesome and that seems to destroy the friendship, and raises the possibility that...,
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Crossing the Bridge is an American film.Hailed nationwide by critics, Crossing the Bridge stars Josh Charles (Dead Poets Society), Stephen Baldwin (Born on the Fourth of July), and Jason Gedrick (Backdraft). Through thick and thin, Mort, Tim, and Danny were friends. Now they're putting everything on the line with a dangerous drug-smuggling venture promising high-stakes consequences. The trio's about to leave their fun, carefree days behind to face a moment of truth. Their decision will not only determine their freedom, but the future of their lives.The movie was created my mike binder, and loosely based off my dad and binders' friends during the late 1970's in the Detroit/ Birmingham, MI area.1992 films...
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a 1991 comedy film directed by Stephen Herek. Christina Applegate (Married... with Children) stars as a teenager whose mother leaves for a two-month summer vacation in Australia, putting all five siblings in the care of an elderly babysitter. When the babysitter dies, Applegate, as the eldest, assumes the role as head of household to keep the freedom of having no parents around. She fakes a resume to get a job in the fashion industry, but proves capable and lucky enough to succeed.
The film is a classic teen fantasy, where the teen is thrust into the role of adult, to great success. It is marketed with the tagline "No rules. No nagging. No curfew. No pulse."
A modest box-office success at the time of its release, it is a perennial favorite on television and cable TV.
The film also features Joanna Cassidy, Keith Coogan, Josh Charles, Danielle Harris, and a then-obscure actor named David Duchovny, later of The X-Files fame. The original music...,
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Dead Poets Society is an Academy Award winning 1989 film, directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher at a highly conservative and autocratic boys' school who inspires his students to make changes to their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature.The story is set at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont and was filmed at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware. A novelization by Nancy H. Kleinbaum based on the movie's script has also been published.Seven boys, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), Charlie "Nuwanda" Dalton (Gale Hansen), Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero) and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston) attend the prestigious Welton Academy prep school, which is based on four principles: Tradition, Honor, Discipline and Excellence. According to the boys, the four pillars of "Hellton" are Travesty, Horror, Decadence, and Excrement.On...,
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Josh Charles was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland
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