Josh Hartnett life and biography

Josh Hartnett is an American actor and producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later for Miramax. That same year, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Male Performance. Hartnett gained fame for his role as Cpt Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor, and has starred since then for a variety of well-known directors such as Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Robert Rodriguez, Tran Anh Hung, Roland Joffé and Michael Bay.

Hartnett was born in San Francisco, California, and was raised mostly by his father, Daniel Hartnett (a building manager), and his stepmother, Molly (an artist) near Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has three younger half-siblings. He is of Irish ancestry and was raised Roman Catholic, attending Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Grade School, where he played Adam Apple in an eighth grade production of "Krazy Kamp". He later attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School before switching to South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from which he graduated in June 1996.

Hartnett was active in sports as a child, especially football, and did not entertain the thought of becoming a performer, until an injury left him unable to participate on the athletic playing field. A relative encouraged him to audition for a stage production of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn and to his surprise, he won the part of Huckleberry Finn. Now in love with the stage, he went on to star in a slew of high school plays.


Hartnett began a relationship with English actress Tamsin Egerton in 2012. They have a daughter (born 2015), a second child (born 2017), and a third child (born 2019). In 2022, he revealed he had married Egerton in November 2021.


Films of Josh Hartnett:

1998: Halloween H20: 20 Years Later; The Faculty
2000: Here on Earth
2001: Pearl Harbor; Black Hawk Down
2006: Lucky Number Slevin
2007: Resurrecting the Champ; Stories USA; 30 Days of Night
2008: August
2009: I Come with the Rain
2010: Bunraku
2011: Girl Walks into a Bar; Stuck Between Stations
2013: The Lovers
2014: Parts per Billion
2015: Wild Horses
2017: Oh Lucy!; The Ottoman Lieutenant; 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain
2019: She's Missing
2020: Inherit the Viper; Target Number One; Valley of the Gods
2021: Wrath of Man; Ida Red
2022: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

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