BEST MEDICINE
JOSH CHARLES
as Martin Best
Josh Charles is a critically acclaimed film, television, and stage actor whose performances have earned him Emmy®, Golden Globe®, SAG Award, and Critics’ Choice Awards nominations.
Charles will be seen leading FOX’s new series Best Medicine, based on the widely popular British series Doc Martin. Centering on ‘Dr. Martin Best,’ Charles portrays a peculiar and brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint Maine fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got.
On television, he spent five seasons playing ‘Will Gardner’ on the CBS award-winning drama The Good Wife for which he received two Emmy® nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor on a Drama Series and a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie. He was most recently seen in FX’s limited series The Veil, The Handmaids Tale, and in the HBO limited series We Own This City. Charles co-starred in the first season of the acclaimed HBO series In Treatment, as well as Aaron Sorkin’s series Sports Night as sports anchor ‘Dan Rydell.’ Other television work includes Away, The Loudest Voice, Masters Of Sex, Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Stella, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, and Inside Amy Schumer.
Charles secured his first feature film role in John Waters’ 1986 film Hairspray. The following year, he co-starred as ‘Knox Overstreet’ in the Academy Award® winning film Dead Poets Society. Other notable film roles include Mother’s Instinct, Memory, Delorean, Norman, The Drowning, Freeheld, I Smile Back, Bird People, S.W.A.T., Four Brothers, Threesome, Pie In The Sky, Things To In Denver When You're Dead, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, Crossing The Bridge, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, and Seeing Other People.
On stage, Charles co-starred on Broadway in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men (Drama League Nomination), and in the world premiere of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes for the Signature Theater. Additional theatre credits include: the U.S. premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble) at MCC, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Caryl Churchill’s A Number at Act, the world premiere of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at MTC, and The Glass Menagerie and A Dance Lesson at the Long Wharf Theater.
Charles was born and raised in Baltimore, and is an avid sports fan, especially for the Ravens and Orioles. His voice can be heard narrating the NFL Films documentary series A Football Life on the NFL Network.
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Josh Charles is a critically acclaimed film, television, and stage actor whose performances have earned him Emmy®, Golden Globe®, SAG Award, and Critics’ Choice Awards nominations.
Charles will be seen leading FOX’s new series Best Medicine, based on the widely popular British series Doc Martin. Centering on ‘Dr. Martin Best,’ Charles portrays a peculiar and brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint Maine fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got.
On television, he spent five seasons playing ‘Will Gardner’ on the CBS award-winning drama The Good Wife for which he received two Emmy® nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor on a Drama Series and a Golden Globe® nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series, or TV Movie. He was most recently seen in FX’s limited series The Veil, The Handmaids Tale, and in the HBO limited series We Own This City. Charles co-starred in the first season of the acclaimed HBO series In Treatment, as well as Aaron Sorkin’s series Sports Night as sports anchor ‘Dan Rydell.’ Other television work includes Away, The Loudest Voice, Masters Of Sex, Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Stella, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, and Inside Amy Schumer.
Charles secured his first feature film role in John Waters’ 1986 film Hairspray. The following year, he co-starred as ‘Knox Overstreet’ in the Academy Award® winning film Dead Poets Society. Other notable film roles include Mother’s Instinct, Memory, Delorean, Norman, The Drowning, Freeheld, I Smile Back, Bird People, S.W.A.T., Four Brothers, Threesome, Pie In The Sky, Things To In Denver When You're Dead, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, Crossing The Bridge, Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, and Seeing Other People.
On stage, Charles co-starred on Broadway in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men (Drama League Nomination), and in the world premiere of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes for the Signature Theater. Additional theatre credits include: the U.S. premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble) at MCC, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Caryl Churchill’s A Number at Act, the world premiere of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at MTC, and The Glass Menagerie and A Dance Lesson at the Long Wharf Theater.
Charles was born and raised in Baltimore, and is an avid sports fan, especially for the Ravens and Orioles. His voice can be heard narrating the NFL Films documentary series A Football Life on the NFL Network.