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Joshua 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. Charles began his career performing stand-up comedy from the age of 9. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center 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 the Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society.
On television, Charles played the leading role of sports anchor Dan Rydell in Aaron Sorkin's Emmy Award-winning comedy/drama Sports Night, which ran for two years on ABC and earned Charles a Screen Actors Guild nomination. His most recent television project is the HBO series In Treatment.
In 1986, Charles received a Festival Week Award for Best Actor for his role in the Stagedoor Manor...
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