Joshua Jackson
Biography
Joshua Jackson is a Canadian and American actor who started in a small role in Crooked Hearts (1991) and then played Charlie in The Mighty Ducks film series (1992 to 1996). He became known for playing Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek (1998 to 2003). While that show was on hiatus he appeared in Cruel Intentions (1999), The Skulls (2000), and The Safety of Objects (2001), and he also was cast in Gossip (2000). His film work also includes Cursed (2005), Bobby (2006), and Shutter (2008). He won a Genie Award for Best Actor for One Week (2008). On television he played Peter Bishop in Fringe (2008 to 2013), starred in The Affair (2014 to 2018), and earned a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Dr. Death (2021 to 2023). He also appeared in Doctor Odyssey and in the miniseries When They See Us and Little Fires Everywhere. He also acted on the London stage and on Broadway.
48years old
Turns 49 on June 11in 242 days
- Born Vancouver
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
- Joshua Carter Jackson (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 25
- Career span
- 34 years1991 to 2025
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First role
Jackson began acting with a small part in the 1991 film Crooked Hearts. A year later, he took the role of Charlie in a stage musical based on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Behind the camera
Joshua Jackson is credited with writing the opening story in the comic book trilogy Beyond the Fringe, and that first story is called Peter and the Machine.
A change of course
Jackson hosted a satirical Pacey-Con in 2010 across the street from Comic-Con, wearing a bowling shirt and handing Dawson's Creek fan fiction to people in the entrance line, footage of which he filmed for Funny or Die.
Joshua Jackson movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Emilio Estevez appears in four of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Emilio Estevez's page
Elden Henson's page
Marguerite Moreau's page
Garette Ratliff Henson's page
Matt Doherty's page
Shaun Weiss's page
Also three films together1 more actor
- Vincent LarussoD3: The Mighty Ducks (1996), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994) and The Mighty Ducks (1992)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Joshua Jackson's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$520 million
16 of the 25 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 25 films: 16 worldwide figure; 4 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 4 figure not found.
- 16Worldwide figure
- 4US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 4Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 93% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$117M22.5% of the total
- 2$76M14.7% of the total
- 3$73M13.9% of the total
- 4$51M9.8% of the total
- 5$51M9.8% of the total
- 6$48M9.2% of the total
- 7$46M8.8% of the total
- 8$23M4.4% of the total
$35.8 millionfrom the other 8 films with a worldwide figure, 7% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.