Justin Hartley

Justin Hartley is an American actor, producer and director who became known for soap and superhero television. Born in Knoxville, Illinois, and raised in Orland Park, he studied history and theater before taking the role of Fox Crane in Passions, an NBC daytime soap opera, from 2002 to 2006. He played Oliver Queen on Smallville from 2006 to 2011 and wrote and directed episodes of that series. Other television work included Adam Newman on The Young and the Restless, which earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination, and recurring parts on Revenge and Mistresses. Hartley gained wider attention as Kevin Pearson in the NBC drama This Is Us from 2016 to 2022, earning three Critics' Choice Television Award nominations and a Screen Actors Guild ensemble award with the cast. His film credits include Red Canyon (2008), The Noel Diary (2022) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). He took a lead role in the CBS action drama Tracker in 2024.