# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josh-charles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:43.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josh-charles"
name: "Josh Charles"
slug: "josh-charles"
description: "Joshua Aaron Charles is an American film, television, and theater actor best known for playing Will Gardner on The Good Wife, a role which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He also appeared in Sports Night, Dead Poets Society and Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josh_Charles_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.006948614566355
  historical:           24.57621066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MrJoshCharles"
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    handle:    "mrjoshcharles"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "조시 찰스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "जॉश चार्ल्स"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump