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Josh J. Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He has acted in theater, film and television roles for over 23 years, and won acting awards for his roles in the films No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
 and Milk
Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
. His other notable films from 2007 to 2008 include In the Valley of Elah
In the Valley of Elah

In the Valley of Elah was a 2007 in film Academy Award-nominated film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon....
, American Gangster, and W.
W. (film)

W. is a 2008 Cinema of the United States biographical film based on the life and Presidency of George W. Bush of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as President of the United States Bush....
.

in was born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, the son of Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist and native of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, Texas, it also extends into Aransas County, Texas, Kleberg County, Texas, and San Patricio County, Texas counties....
, and actor James Brolin
James Brolin

James Brolin is an Emmy Award-winning United States television, film, character actor, Film producer, and Film director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television....
.






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Josh J. Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. He has acted in theater, film and television roles for over 23 years, and won acting awards for his roles in the films No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
 and Milk
Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
. His other notable films from 2007 to 2008 include In the Valley of Elah
In the Valley of Elah

In the Valley of Elah was a 2007 in film Academy Award-nominated film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon....
, American Gangster, and W.
W. (film)

W. is a 2008 Cinema of the United States biographical film based on the life and Presidency of George W. Bush of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as President of the United States Bush....
.

Biography


Early life

Brolin was born in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, the son of Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist and native of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas. The county seat of Nueces County, Texas, it also extends into Aransas County, Texas, Kleberg County, Texas, and San Patricio County, Texas counties....
, and actor James Brolin
James Brolin

James Brolin is an Emmy Award-winning United States television, film, character actor, Film producer, and Film director, best known for his roles in soap operas, movies, sitcoms, and television....
. His stepmother by his father's current marriage is Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
.

Career

Brolin started his career in TV movies and guest spots on TV shows before getting a more notable role as Brand Walsh in the Richard Donner
Richard Donner

Richard Donner is an United States film director, film producer, and comic book writer. The production company, The Donners' Company, is owned by Donner and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner....
-directed movie The Goonies
The Goonies

The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
 (1985). He was then offered the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street is an hour-long police drama Television program that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company from April 12, 1987 in television to April 27, 1991 in television, with a total of 103 episodes....
 but turned it down to star in the series Private Eye (1987), which lasted half a season. The role of Hanson instead went to Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is an American actor known for his portrayals of offbeat, eccentric characters such as Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and Edward Scissorhands....
. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season.

One of Brolin's more prominent roles early in his career was that of Wild Bill Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok

James Butler Hickok , better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and reconnaissance, along with his reputation as a Marshal, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized....
 in the ABC western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 TV series The Young Riders
The Young Riders

The Young Riders is a Western television series created by Ed Spielman that presents a fictionalized account of a group of young Pony Express riders based at the Sweetwater Station in the Nebraska Territory during the years leading up to the American Civil War....
, which lasted three seasons (1989-92). Two other TV series he was involved in include the Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling

Aaron Spelling was an United States film producer and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits....
 production Winnetka Road (1994) and Mister Sterling
Mister Sterling

Mister Sterling is an United States television Serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin as an idealistic United States United States Senate, and featured Audra McDonald, William Russ, David Noro?a, and James Whitmore as members of his staff....
 (2003). Both series were canned after only a few episodes.

His extensive film work consists mainly of supporting, villainous roles. His biggest box office success to date was American Gangster
American Gangster

American Gangster is a 2007 in film crime film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington portrays Frank Lucas , a real-life gangster from Harlem who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War....
 (2007), which grossed US$265,495,454 worldwide.

He has done extensive theatre work in Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, New York State, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. The Rochester metropolitan area is the second largest economy in New York State, behind the New York City metropolitan area....
, and has appeared onstage alongside mentor and friend Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Zerbe

Anthony Jared Zerbe is an United States stage, film and television actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend....
.

His most recent film work includes the Planet Terror
Planet Terror

Planet Terror is a 2007 in film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of people attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit, including a go-go dancer searching for a way to implement her "useless talents"....
 segment of the Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, Film producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent film filmmaker whose films used nonlinear and aestheticization of violence....
/Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez

Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an United States filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, cinematographer, Film editing#Film_editor and musician. He is perhaps best known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent film and major film studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards....
 collaboration Grindhouse, the Coen brothers
Coen Brothers

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from Screwball comedy film to hardboiled , to movies where genres blur together ....
' Academy Award-winning film No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men (film)

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
, Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
's American Gangster and Gus van Sant
Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an United States film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk , and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ....
's Milk
Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
.

He also starred in director Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone is an United Statesn film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his work continues to focus frequently on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially....
's 2008 film W.
W. (film)

W. is a 2008 Cinema of the United States biographical film based on the life and Presidency of George W. Bush of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as President of the United States Bush....
, a biopic about key events during the life of President George W. Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
. Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. He said of his decision to cast Brolin in the leading role:

Brolin received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for his role in Gus Van Sant
Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an United States film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk , and won the Palme d'Or at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ....
's biopic Milk
Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
 as city supervisor Dan White
Dan White

Daniel James "Dan" White was a San Francisco Board of Supervisors who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on November 27, 1978, at San Francisco City Hall....
, who assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk was an American politician and List of gay, lesbian or bisexual firsts openly homosexual orientation man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
 and Mayor George Moscone
George Moscone

George Richard Moscone was an United States Lawyer and Democratic Party politicsian. He was the List of Mayors of San Francisco, California of San Francisco, California, California, United States from January 1976 until his Moscone-Milk assassinations in November 1978....
. Brolin told an interviewer that costar Sean Penn
Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn is an United States film actor. He is also a filmmaker and political activist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama for his role in Mystic River and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role and Academy Awa...
, who portrayed Milk, decided to dispel any nerves the actors had about playing gay
Gay

The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree," "happy," or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637....
 men by grabbing the bull by the horns. At the first cast dinner, which included cast-mates James Franco
James Franco

James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films....
, Emile Hirsch
Emile Hirsch

Emile Davenport Hirsch is an United States television and film actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door , Alpha Dog, and Into the Wild ....
 and Diego Luna
Diego Luna

Diego Luna is a Mexican actor known for his childhood telenovela work, a starring role in the film Y tu mam? tambi?n, and supporting roles in American films....
, Brolin said, "[Penn] walked right up and grabbed me and planted a huge one right on my lips." Brolin has received critical acclaim for his performance, as well as NYFCC and NBR Awards for Best Supporting Actor and nominations for an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for Best Supporting Actor and a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role.

When he is not acting, Brolin is an active stock trader and is co-founder of the site MarketProbability.com.

Personal life

Brolin has been married to actress Diane Lane
Diane Lane

Diane Lane is an American Cinema of the United States actress born and raised in New York City. Her parents are Colleen Farrington, a night club singer and Playboy centerfold , and Burton Eugene Lane, a Manhattan drama coach who ran an acting workshop with John Cassavetes....
 since August 15, 2004. Brolin has two children, Trevor Mansur (b. 26 June 1988) and Eden (b. 1994) from a previous marriage to actress Alice Adair. On December 20, 2004, Lane called the police after an altercation with Brolin and he was arrested on a misdemeanor
Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a "lesser" crime act. Misdemeanors are generally punishment much less severely than felony, but theoretically more so than administrative infractions ....
 charge of domestic battery
Domestic violence

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. Domestic violence often refers to violence between spouses, or spousal abuse but can also include cohabitants and non-married intimate partners....
. Lane declined to press charges and the couple's spokesperson characterized the incident as a misunderstanding.

On July 12, 2008, Brolin was arrested, along with actor Jeffrey Wright and five other crew members of W.
W. (film)

W. is a 2008 Cinema of the United States biographical film based on the life and Presidency of George W. Bush of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as President of the United States Bush....
, after an altercation at the Stray Cat Bar in Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city and the principal city of the third largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Louisiana, as well as being the 99th-largest city in the United States....
. Brolin was released after posting a cash bond of US$334. Of his arrest, Brolin told a reporter, "It was nice to be in jail knowing that I hadn’t done anything wrong. And it was maddening to be in jail knowing that I hadn’t done anything wrong." Charges against all seven men were later dropped by Shreveport prosecutors.

Filmography

  • The Goonies
    The Goonies

    The Goonies is a 1985 in film adventure film-comedy film directed by Richard Donner. The screenwriter was written by Chris Columbus from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg....
     (1985)
  • Thrashin'
    Thrashin'

    Thrashin', also known as Skate Gang, is a 1986 in film skater drama film. The film is directed by David Winters , and stars Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, and featuring Pamela Gidley....
     (1986)
  • Young Riders (1989)
  • Bed of Roses
    Bed of Roses

    Bed of Roses is a 1996 romance film that starred Mary Stuart Masterson and Christian Slater. It was screenwriter and film director by Michael Goldenberg....
     (1996)
  • Flirting with Disaster
    Flirting with Disaster

    For the album by rock band Molly Hatchet, see Flirtin' with Disaster.Flirting with Disaster is a 1996 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by David O....
     (1996)
  • Mimic (1997)
  • Nightwatch
    Nightwatch (1997 film)

    Nightwatch is a 1997 horror film–thriller film directed by Ole Bornedal, and starring Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin and Nick Nolte....
     (1997)
  • The Mod Squad
    The Mod Squad (film)

    The Mod Squad is a 1999 in film directed by Scott Silver. It is based on the television show The Mod Squad. The film was nominated for "Worst Screenplay" in 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards....
     (1999)
  • Best Laid Plans
    Best Laid Plans

    Best Laid Plans is a movie with Reese Witherspoon and Alessandro Nivola. The genre is crime, drama thriller and the movie was directed by Mike Barker ....
     (1999)
  • Picnic
    Picnic (film)

    Picnic is a 1955 Cinemascope film in Technicolor which tells the story of an ex-college football star turned drifter who arrives in a small Kansas town on Labor Day and is drawn to a girl who's already spoken for....
     (2000) (TV)
  • Hollow Man
    Hollow Man

    Hollow Man is a 2000 in film science fiction film thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue and Josh Brolin....
     (2000)
  • Slow Burn
    Slow Burn

    Slow Burn is an American motion picture starring Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock, and LL Cool J, which is notable for the extended period between production and eventual release....
     (2000)
  • Mister Sterling
    Mister Sterling

    Mister Sterling is an United States television Serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin as an idealistic United States United States Senate, and featured Audra McDonald, William Russ, David Noro?a, and James Whitmore as members of his staff....
     (2003) (TV series)
  • Melinda and Melinda
    Melinda and Melinda

    Melinda and Melinda is a 2005 in film film Screenwriter and film director by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival....
     (2004)
  • Into the West
    Into the West (TV miniseries)

    Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks, with six two-hour episodes . The series was first broadcast in the U.S....
     (2005) (mini series)
  • Into the Blue
    Into the Blue

    Into the Blue is a 2005 in film film directed by John Stockwell . The film was distributed in North America by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures, and was distributed overseas by 20th Century Fox....
     (2005)
  • The Dead Girl
    The Dead Girl

    The Dead Girl is a 2006 film written and directed by Karen Moncrieff starring Toni Collette, Brittany Murphy and Marcia Gay Harden. The film was nominated for several 2007 Independent Spirit Awards awards including Best Feature and Best Director....
     (2006)
  • Grindhouse - Planet Terror
    Planet Terror

    Planet Terror is a 2007 in film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, about a group of people attempting to survive an onslaught of zombie-like creatures as they feud with a military unit, including a go-go dancer searching for a way to implement her "useless talents"....
     (2007)
  • In the Valley of Elah
    In the Valley of Elah

    In the Valley of Elah was a 2007 in film Academy Award-nominated film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon....
     (2007)
  • No Country for Old Men
    No Country for Old Men (film)

    No Country for Old Men is a 2007 in film crime thriller adapted for the screen and directed by Coen brothers, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin....
     (2007)
  • American Gangster (2007)
  • W.
    W. (film)

    W. is a 2008 Cinema of the United States biographical film based on the life and Presidency of George W. Bush of George W. Bush. It was produced and directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser, and stars Josh Brolin as President of the United States Bush....
     (2008)
  • Milk
    Milk (film)

    Milk is a 2008 in film biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors....
     (2008) (Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor)


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