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.

Filmography

• Best Medicine — Dr. Martin Best, Producer
• The American Revolution — Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
• 2024Mothers' Instinct — Damian
• The Veil — Max Peterson
• 2023Memory — Isaac
• The Power — Governor Daniel Dandon
• 2022Facing Suicide — Narrator
• We Own This City — Daniel Hersl
• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Vince Baldi
• Away — Matt Logan
• 2019Framing John DeLorean — Bill Collins
• The Loudest Voice — Casey Close
• 2018Amateur — Coach Gaines
• Medal of Honor — Narrator
• Law & Order True Crime — Dr. Jerome Oziel
• The Handmaid's Tale — Gabriel Wharton
• Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later — Blake
• 2016Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer — Taub
• 2016The Drowning — Tom Seymour
• 2016Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — Chris
• 2015Freeheld — Bryan Kelder
• 2015I Smile Back — Bruce Brooks
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Duke Snyder
• Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp — Blake
• 2014Adult Beginners — Phil
• 2014Bird People — Gary Newman
• 20132012 Baltimore Ravens: Super Bowl XLVII Champions — Narrator
• Drunk History — Jay Gould
• Masters of Sex — Dan Logan
• 2010Weakness — Bart
• 2009After.Life — Tom Peterson
• 2009Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — Subject #2
• 2009Darwin's Secret Notebooks — Narrator
• The Good Wife — Will Gardner, Director
• In Treatment — Jake
• 2007The Darwin Awards — Paramedic
• 2007The Hottest State — Thanks
• Six Degrees — Ray Jones
• 2006The Ex — Forrest Mead
• 2005Four Brothers — Detective Fowler
• 2004Seeing Other People — Lou
• 2003S.W.A.T. — T.J. McCabe
• 2002Our America — Dave Isay
• 2000Meeting Daddy — Peter Silverblatt
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Sean Kelley
• 1999Muppets from Space — Agent Barker
• Sports Night — Dan Rydell
• 1997Cyclops, Baby — Brush Brody
• 1997Little City — Adam
• 1996Crossworlds — Joe Talbot
• 1996Norma Jean & Marilyn — Eddie Jordan
• 1996Pie in the Sky — Charlie Dunlap
• 1996The Grave — Tyn
• 1995Coldblooded — Randy
• 1995Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead — Bruce (uncredited)
• 1994Threesome — Eddy
• 1993Cooperstown — Jody
• 1992Crossing the Bridge — Mort Golden
• 1991Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead — Bryan
• 1990Murder in Mississippi — Andrew Goodman
• 1989Dead Poets Society — Knox Overstreet
• 1988Hairspray — Iggy
• The 99'ers

Appearances as themselves (7)

• The Eisen Hour — Self - Guest
• Match Game — Self - Panelist
• 2014Dead Poets in NYC — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• Curiosity — Self - Narrator (voice)
• The View — Self