Josh Charles

Joshua Aaron Charles was born in Baltimore in 1971; he is Jewish on his father's side and identifies as Jewish himself. He was nineteen when he played Knox Overstreet opposite Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society, was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award as Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night, and received two Primetime Emmy nominations, in 2011 and 2014, for Will Gardner in The Good Wife. In 2014 he was among the signatories of a Hollywood open letter condemning Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, and in 2023 he signed a letter calling for the release of the hostages taken on 7 October.