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Josh Hartnett
Hartnett in November 2008
Born	Joshua Daniel Hartnett July 21, 1978 (1978-07-21) (age 31) St Paul, Minnesota,1 United States
Occupation	Actor, film producer
Years active	1997–present

Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and film producer. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and as Matt Eversmann in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Hartnett grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota and was raised mostly by his father, Daniel Hartnett (a building manager), and stepmother, Molly (an artist).² He has three younger half-siblings, named Jessica, Jake and Joe and is of Irish ancestry.³ He was raised Roman Catholic,⁴ attending Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Grade School, where he played Adam Apple in an eighth grade production of "Krazy Kamp". He later attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School before switching to South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from which he graduated in June 1996. Hartnett played football in high school, but stopped because of a broken left knee.

Hartnett got his first job at a local video store. He had also worked at McDonald's and Burger King for a short time before getting his start in acting at Youth Performance Company in Minneapolis. He became a vegetarian at the age of 12 but temporarily returned to meat eating during the shooting of The Black Dahlia.⁵

He attended the prestigious Acting Program at SUNY Purchase in New York for a short period of time.

Hartnett has also lived in San Francisco.

Career

In April 1997, Hartnett made his screen debut playing the role of Michael Fitzgerald on the short-lived television series, Cracker. He also performed in small plays and on national television commercials, before being cast in his first feature film, playing the son of Jamie Lee Curtis' character in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, which was released on August 5, 1998 and performed well at the box office.

Hartnett has since developed a steady film career, having appeared in several Hollywood films, including The Faculty, Black Hawk Down, Lucky Number Slevin and Pearl Harbor. He was originally set to play the role of Tino in Deuces Wild, but dropped out to star in Pearl Harbor. In 2002, he starred in O, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello set in an American high school, as Hugo, the film's version of Iago.

Hartnett was chosen as one of Teen People magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" in 1999, Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars under 25", and one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People", both in 2002. He was also voted Bliss magazine's "3rd Sexiest Male".

One of Hartnett's most recent films is the drama-mystery The Black Dahlia, in which he plays a detective investigating the notorious real-life murder of actress Elizabeth Short. Hartnett was cast in the role five years before the film was produced, and remained committed to appearing in the film because he liked the subject matter.⁶

Among his 2007 roles are Resurrecting the Champ, a drama also starring Samuel L. Jackson, and the graphic novel-based 30 Days of Night, in which he plays a small-town sheriff, Hartnett describes the film as "supernatural, but kind of a western". He was going to play trumpet player, Chet Baker, in the film The Prince of Cool, but did not agree with the producer's ideas and left the project.

Hartnett has played Charlie Babbit alongside Adam Godley in the theatre adaptation of Barry Morrow's Academy Award-winning Rain Man at the Apollo Theatre in London's West End. Also in 2008 he starred the new campaign of the Emporio Armani fragrance, "Diamonds for Men", he will feature in both print and TV ads for the fragrance. This makes him the first male celebrity to represent Giorgio Armani Beauty.⁷

He also had been featured on many magazine covers, such as Cosmogirl, Details, Entertainment Weekly, Girlfriend, Seventeen, Vanity Fair, GQ and Vman, besides being in other magazines like Vogue, ELLE, People, Glamour, Intouch and InStyle.⁸⁹

In 2009, Hartnett produced the video for the Kid Cudi song Pursuit of Happiness.¹⁰

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	John Tate	Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Male Newcomer Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Male Performance
	Debutante	Bill
	The Faculty	Zeke Tyler	Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
1999	The Virgin Suicides	Trip Fontaine
2000	Here on Earth	Jasper Arnold	Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Performance
2001	The Same	the neighbor
	Member	Gianni
	Blow Dry	Brian Allen
	Town & Country	Tom Stoddard
	Pearl Harbor	Cpt Danny Walker	Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best Male Performance Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor Nominated — Razzie Award for Worst Screen Couple (shared with Kate Beckinsale and Ben Affleck)
	O	Hugo Goulding
	Black Hawk Down	Matt Eversmann	Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Acting Ensemble (shared with the cast) Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor, Drama/Action Adventure
2002	40 Days and 40 Nights	Matt Sullivan	Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Chemistry (shared with Shannyn Sossamon)
2003	Hollywood Homicide	K.C. Calden
2004	Wicker Park	Matthew Simon
2005	Sin City	The Colonel / The Salesman
	Mozart and the Whale	Donald Morton
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Slevin Kelevra	Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actor (tied with Peter Falk)
	The Black Dahlia	Ofc Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert
2007	Resurrecting the Champ	Erik Kernan
	30 Days of Night	Eben Oleson	Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Actor, Horror/Thriller
2008	I Come with the Rain	Kline
	August	Tom Sterling
2009	Bunraku	The Drifter	post-production
	End Zone	Gary Harkness	filming
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997-1999	Cracker	Michael Fitzgerald	Fourteen episodes, main character

Awards and nominations

• ShoWest Award Male Star of Tomorrow (2002)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Josh Hartnett

• Josh Hartnett at the Internet Movie Database
• Josh Hartnett at TV.com
• Josh Hartnett at People.com