Joshua Jackson


Joshua Jackson is a Canadian–American actor. He is known for his starring role as Pacey Witter in the teen drama series Dawson's Creek, Peter Bishop in the science fiction series Fringe, Cole Lockhart in the drama series The Affair, Mickey Joseph in the drama miniseries When They See Us, and Bill Richardson in the drama miniseries Little Fires Everywhere.
Jackson's best known films include The Mighty Ducks film series, Cruel Intentions, The Skulls, and Shutter. For his performance in the Canadian independent film One Week, Jackson won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role.

Early life

Jackson was born June 11, 1978, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to parents John and Fiona. His mother is a casting director. Jackson's father is from Texas; and his mother is a native of Ballyfermot, Dublin, Ireland, having immigrated to North America in the late 1960s. He has a younger sister, Aisleagh, and two older half brothers, Jonathan and Lyman. He was raised Catholic.
Jackson grew up in California until the age of 8. He moved to Vancouver with his mother and younger sister. He attended Ideal Mini School and later switched to Kitsilano Secondary School. In an interview with The New York Times, Jackson said he was kicked out of high school once because of The Jon Stewart Show: " played, at least where I grew up, at 1:30 in the morning, so I would stay up at night to watch Jon Stewart, but then I'd be too tired—or too lazy—to go to school in the morning. So I'd just take the first couple of classes off, 'cause I wanted to be fresh when I got there."

Career

Jackson started acting in a small role in the film Crooked Hearts in 1991. The next year, he played the role of Charlie in a musical version of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. At this point, with the help of the play's casting director Laura Kennedy, he joined the William Morris Agency. Soon after, he landed the role of Charlie in The Mighty Ducks series, playing a young and aspiring hockey player.
Joshua Jackson went on to appear as Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek, which ran on the WB network from 1998–2003, and also starred James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes. While the show was on hiatus, he appeared in several movies including Cruel Intentions, The Skulls, The Safety of Objects, The Laramie Project and a short cameo in the remake of Ocean's Eleven in which he appears as himself in a poker scene with Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Holly Marie Combs, among others. In 2000, he also guest-starred in Season 12 of The Simpsons, voicing the character of Jesse Grass, a "hunky environmentalist" and love interest for Lisa Simpson in the episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger". He also was cast as " Beau" in the movie "Gossip" in 2000 with actors James Marsden, Kate Hudson and Norman Reedus.
Shortly after Dawson's Creek ended in 2003, Jackson played the lead role in films alongside Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, and Donald Sutherland. In 2005, Jackson moved to the UK and made his stage debut on the London West End with Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's two-man play, A Life in the Theatre. The play was a critical and popular success, and ran from February to April of that year. Jackson said that he would consider returning to the stage, to try his hand on Broadway. His next film role was in Bobby, directed by Emilio Estevez, Jackson's co-star from The Mighty Ducks. He played a lead role in Shutter, a US remake of a Thai horror film of the same name. He starred and acted as executive producer in the Canadian independent film One Week, which opened on March 6, 2009.
From 2008 to 2013, Jackson played the lead role of Peter Bishop in the science-fiction series Fringe, created by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The series appeared on the Fox TV network and was the second-highest rated new show of the 2008–2009 season after CBS's The Mentalist. BuddyTV ranked him #9 on its "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2010" list, #19 in 2011 and #14 in 2012.
Jackson was nominated for Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film One Week. He won the award on April 12, 2010.
He held and hosted Pacey-Con in 2010, directly across the street from the San Diego Comic-Con, sporting a bowling shirt and giving out fan fiction he wrote himself to those waiting in the Comic-Con entrance line. Footage of the event was recorded for a video, entitled 'Pacey-Con', which he was filming for Will Ferrell's Funny or Die celebrity humor website.
In 2013 Jackson appeared in the IFC film Inescapable with Marisa Tomei and Alexander Siddig. Jackson wrote the first story from the comic book trilogy Beyond the Fringe, titled "Peter and the Machine". Jackson starred in the successful Showtime television show, The Affair, where he played Cole Lockhart, the protagonist husband of the unfaithful Alison Lockhart.
In March 2018, Jackson makes a theatrical debut in Broadway, Children of a Lesser God, where he plays James Leeds, an unconventional teacher at school for the deaf who got in a conflicted professional and romantic relationship with a former deaf student, Sarah Norman. The play ran through May 2018.
In 2019, Jackson starred as defense attorney Mickey Joseph in the Netflix drama miniseries When They See Us.
In May 2019, Jackson joined the cast of Hulu's miniseries Little Fires Everywhere based off the book by Celeste Ng.

Personal life

Jackson was in a relationship with Dawson's Creek co-star Katie Holmes during the first two seasons of the show's run. Holmes claims Jackson was her first love.
Jackson began dating German actress Diane Kruger in 2006. Jackson and Kruger ended their relationship in 2016, after 10 years together. He owns his childhood home in Topanga, California. He previously lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Dawson's Creek was filmed; and in New York, where Fringe filmed its first season. In 2009, he moved back to Vancouver for the shooting of the four following seasons before the show aired its last episode on January 18, 2013.
Jackson has been in a relationship with British model and actress Jodie Turner-Smith since 2018. They married in December 2019 and welcomed their first child in April 2020.
Jackson is a fan of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. He was arrested on November 9, 2002, at a Carolina Hurricanes hockey game in Raleigh, North Carolina, after a quarrel with a security guard. He was charged with assault, affray, and public intoxication and disruption, having a 0.14 blood alcohol content. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the assault charge, and Jackson agreed to attend an alcohol education program and perform 24 hours of community service in order to have the remaining charge dropped.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1991Crooked HeartsTom
1992The Mighty DucksCharlie Conway
1993DiggerBilly
1994'Charlie Conway
1994AndreMark Baker
1995Magic in the WaterJoshua Black
1996'Charlie Conway
1996Robin of LocksleyJohn Prince, Jr.
1997Ronnie and JulieRonnie
1997Scream 2Film Class Guy #1
1998The BatteryMichael PappermanShort film
1998Apt PupilJoey
1998Urban LegendDamon Brooks
1999Cruel IntentionsBlaine Tuttle
1999Muppets from SpacePacey WitterUncredited Cameo
2000The SkullsLucas 'Luke' McNamara
2000GossipBeau Edson
2001The Safety of ObjectsPaul Gold
2001Ocean's ElevenHimselfCameo
2002The Laramie ProjectMatt Galloway
2002Lone Star State of MindEarl CrestAlternative title: Cowboys and Idiots
2003I Love Your WorkJohn Everhart
2005CursedJake Taylor
2005Racing StripesTrenton's PrideVoice role
2005AmericanoChris McKinley
2005Aurora BorealisDuncan Shorter
2005The Shadow DancerJeremy TaylorAlternative title: Shadows in the Sun
2006BobbyWade Buckley
2007Battle in SeattleRandall
2008ShutterBenjamin Shaw
2008GasholeHimselfDocumentary
2008One WeekBen Tyler
2012Lay the FavoriteJeremy
2012InescapablePaul
2015SkyDetective Ruther

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations