| Net Worth: | $12 Million |
|---|---|
| Date of birth: | June 11, 1978 (45 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Profession: | TV Actor |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
Canadian-American actor who played Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series and starred in the JJ Abrams produced Fox drama Fringe. He began playing Cole Lockhart on the Showtime series The Affair in 2014.
He was once kicked out of high school for skipping class due to staying up late to watch The Jon Stewart Show.
He guest-starred with the voice role of Jesse Grass, Lisa Simpson’s love interest on the television show, The Simpsons.
Career
Career: Jackson broke into the film industry in a small role in Crooked Hearts (1991). He then starred in the role of Charlie in a musical version of “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” Soon after joining the roster at the William Morris Agency, he auditioned for the part of Charlie, an aspiring young hockey player, in The Mighty Ducks and won the role. Jackson appeared in an iconic role when he played Pacey Witter on Dawson’s Creek, a WB show created by Kevin Williamson. The show ran from 1998-2003 and also starred future mega-celebs Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, and James Van Der Beek. While the show was on hiatus, Jackson appeared in many movies on the side including “Cruel Intentions”, starring alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe. He also appeared in “The Skulls,” “The Safety of Objects,” “The Laramie Project,” and a cameo in “Ocean’s Eleven” during this time. In 2000, he guest starred on “The Simpsons” and voiced a character named Jesse Grass, a “hunky environmentalist” and love interest for Lisa Simpson in the episode “Lisa the Tree Hugger.” That same year he was cast in the movie “Gossip.” For his work on “Dawson’s Creek,” Jackson won three Teen Choice Awards for Favorite Actor and was nominated for the same category each year.
Personal Life
He married model Jodie Turner-Smith in 2019 and the couple welcomed a daughter together in April 2020. He was previously in a long-term relationship with actress Diane Kruger from 2006 to 2016. He also dated Cheddar TV host Alyssa Julya Smith in 2018.
Katie Holmes was his costar in the television series, Dawson’s Creek.
Quotes
“I think Uma Thurman is one of God’s creatures, one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.”
— Joshua Jackson
“Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn’t have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.”
— Joshua Jackson
“We’ve all had that moment, the first time you’re exposed to live theater, and it’s shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, ‘I didn’t know this could exist.’”
— Joshua Jackson
“What I like about ‘Lay the Favourite’ is that it shows gambling as a profession, as this real grind-it-out job, with no glamour about it at all.”
— Joshua Jackson
“The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.”
— Joshua Jackson