Josh Charles is an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG award, and Critics’ Choice nominated film, television, and stage actor. He can currently be seen as the star and executive producer of the new hit FOX one-hour comedy Best Medicine, which has been renewed for a second season (based on the long-running popular UK series).

Josh can also recently be seen starring in the final season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale alongside Elisabeth Moss, Max Minghella, and Yvonne Strahovski. He also starred opposite Elisabeth Moss in last year's FX acclaimed limited series The Veil. Prior, Josh spent five seasons playing Will Gardner on the award-winning drama The Good Wife for which he received two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination. Josh also starred as the infamous "Daniel Hersl" on the acclaimed HBO limited series, We Own This City based on true events for Showrunner David Simon and director Reinaldo Marcus Green and in the Amazon series The Power starring opposite Toni Collette & John Leguizamo. Previously Josh starred on the Netflix/Universal TV series Away, opposite Hilary Swank for Ed Zwick. Other television work includes Sports Night, In Treatment, Law & Order: True Crime, Masters of Sex, Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Stella, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and Inside Amy Schumer.

On the film side, he recently starred in the independent film Memory, opposite Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard for Michel Franco and in the independent film Mother's Instinct, starring opposite Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain for Benoît Delhomme.

Josh secured his first feature film role in John Waters’ 1986 film Hairspray. The following year, he co-starred as “Knox Overstreet” in the Academy Award winning film Dead Poets Society. Other notable film roles include Framing John Delorean, S.W.A.T., Four Brothers, Threesome, Pie in the Sky, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Crossing the Bridge, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, and Seeing Other People. He has also starred in several other films—some of those include Amateur, Norman, The Drowning, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Freeheld, I Smile Back, and Bird People.

On stage, Josh co-starred on Broadway in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, and in the world premiere of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes for the Signature Theater. Additional theatre credits include the U.S. premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Distance from Here (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble) at MCC, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Caryl Churchill’s A Number at ACT, the world premiere of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at MTC, and The Glass Menagerie and A Dance Lesson at the Long Wharf Theater.

Josh was born and raised in Baltimore, and is an avid sports fan, especially for the Ravens and Orioles. His voice can be heard narrating the NFL Films documentary series A Football Life on the NFL Network. Josh recently reunited with his Dead Poets Society co-star Ethan Hawke for the Taylor Swift music video for her hit single “Fortnight.”