Actor Josh Hartnett was born on July 21, 1978 in San Francisco, California.
As a child, he was seriously fond of football and wanted to devote his future to it, but due to injury he had to quit the sport. He got into the acting business quite by accident, for the sake of interest, having auditioned in the theater for the role of Huckelberry Finn. Having lost on the stage of the theater for a couple of years, he decides to get close to his acting career and in 1997 gets his first role in a television
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Actor Josh Hartnett was born on July 21, 1978 in San Francisco, California.
As a child, he was seriously fond of football and wanted to devote his future to it, but due to injury he had to quit the sport. He got into the acting business quite by accident, for the sake of interest, having auditioned in the theater for the role of Huckelberry Finn. Having lost on the stage of the theater for a couple of years, he decides to get close to his acting career and in 1997 gets his first role in a television series, and also stars in various commercials.
A year later, he plays the son of Jamie Lee Curtis.
Halloween 20 years later A few months later he starred in another horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez.
"Faculty" . These works brought the actor the first serious success and some nominations for prestigious film awards. In 1999, the film Sofia Coppola was released.
"Virgin suicides" , where Josh's performance was also highly praised.
In the next two years, several films with Josh are released, but they pass unnoticed and do not bring much popularity to the actor.
The main impetus in his acting career is the 2001 film.
Pearl Harbor The role in which Hartnett earned the title of public favorite. Next in the same year, he starred in another war drama directed by Ridley Scott “Black Hawk”.
After his next successful role in a romantic comedy
"40 days and 40 nights" He decides to take a one-year break in his career, and after returning to the film business, he ceases to strive to star in box office blockbusters. As a result, several low-budget films are released, which present the actor as a more mature person, choosing the roles of complex heroes and fully revealing their experiences and problems.
It is worth noting his work in the films “Obsession” in 2004, “Crazy with love” in 2005, “Lucky number Slevin”, where Josh played with Ben Kingsley and Bruce Willis,
The Black Orchid Brian De Palma, where his partner became
Actress Scarlett Johannson and many others.
In 2008, Josh began acting in the theatre in a production of Rain Man at the London Theatre and was praised by English critics.
About the personal life of the actor there are many rumors and he is credited with many romances with world beauties of show business. Only two serious novels are known. Since 2001, he dated Ellen Fenster for three years, and in 2006 he began an affair with Scarlett Johannson, which lasted more than a year, after which the couple broke up.