Josh Hartnett
Biography
Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and producer. He first came to audiences' attention in 1997 as "Michael Fitzgerald" in the crime television series Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998, co-starring with Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. That same year, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Male Performance. Hartnett gained fame for his role as Cpt Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor, and has starred since then for a variety of well-known directors such as Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Robert Rodriguez, Tran Anh Hung and Michael Bay.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Verity
2026
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Black Mirror
2011
The Bear
2022
Bonsoir bonsoir!
2019
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest · 2014
The Daily Show
as Self · 1996
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host · 1975
The Graham Norton Show
as Self · 2007
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self · 2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest · 1988
Verity
as Jeremy Crawford · 2026
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest · 1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
· 1992
Black Mirror
as David Ross · 2011
The Bear
as Frank · 2022
Bonsoir bonsoir!
as Self · 2019
Oppenheimer
as Ernest Lawrence · 2023
Wrath of Man
as Boy Sweat Dave · 2021
The Oscars
as Self · 1953
Drunk History
as Clark Gable · 2013
V Graham Norton
as Self · 2002
Today
as Himself - Guest Star · 1952
Today
as Self - Guest · 1952
Black Hawk Down
as Eversmann · 2001
Penny Dreadful
as Ethan Chandler · 2014
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
as Self - Guest · 2001
Below
as Calvin Penney · 2026
Trap
as Cooper · 2024
30 Days of Night
as Eben Oleson · 2007
Eli Roth's History of Horror
as Self · 2018
Pearl Harbor
as Danny Walker · 2001
Sin City
as The Man · 2005
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
as Danny Francesco · 2023
Lucky Number Slevin
as Slevin · 2006
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
as John · 1998
The Faculty
as Zeke · 1998
Die Hart
as Josh Hartnett · 2020
The Virgin Suicides
as Trip Fontaine · 2000
Cracker
as Michael Fitzgerald · 1997
Hollywood Homicide
as Det. K.C. Calden · 2003
Fight or Flight
as Lucas Reyes · 2025
Paradise Lost
as Yates Forsythe · 2020
Die Hart
as Josh · 2023
Wicker Park
as Matthew · 2004
Exterminate All the Brutes
as American Colonist / Belgian Colonist · 2021
The Black Dahlia
as Bucky Bleichert · 2006
Gogglebox
as Self · 2013
40 Days and 40 Nights
as Matt Sulivan · 2002
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain
as Eric LeMarque · 2017
Target Number One
as Victor Malarek · 2020
Resurrecting the Champ
as Erik Kenman Jr. · 2007
The Fear Index
as Alex Hoffman · 2022
The Ottoman Lieutenant
as Jude Gresham · 2017
Bunraku
as The Drifter · 2010
Girl Walks Into a Bar
as Sam Salazar · 2011
The Lovers
as James / Jay · 2015
Valley of the Gods
as John Ecas · 2020
Inherit the Viper
as Kip Conley · 2019
Stories USA
as Gianni (segment "Member") · 2007
Stories of Lost Souls
as The Neighbor · 2004
I Come with the Rain
as Kline · 2009
The Great British Bake Off: Second Helpings
as Self · 2026
O
as Hugo Goulding · 2001
Mozart and the Whale
as Donald Morton · 2005
Ida Red
as Wyatt Walker · 2021
Town & Country
as Tom Stoddard · 2001
Oh Lucy!
as John · 2018
Here on Earth
as Jasper Arnold · 2000
The Long Home
Wild Horses
as KC Briggs · 2015
Blow Dry
as Brian Allen · 2001
August
as Tom Sterling · 2008
White Lies
as Jack Freeman
The Making of The Virgin Suicides
as Self · 2000
Parts Per Billion
as Len · 2014
All Day & All Night
as Billy Davies
Revisiting The Virgin Suicides
as Self · 2018
She's Missing
as Ren · 2019
Blood Is Thicker Than Water: The Making of Halloween H20
as Self · 2013
Stuck Between Stations
as Paddy · 2011
The Last Draw of Jack of Hearts
as Jack
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
as Self (archive footage)