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Josh Brolin

Josh Brolin

Highest Rated: 95% True Grit (2010)

Lowest Rated: 3% The Mod Squad (1999)

Birthday: Feb 12, 1968

Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA

Josh James Brolin was born on Feb. 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, CA. Despite being born to successful film actor James Brolin, Josh's upbringing in rural Templeton, CA kept him estranged from the Hollywood world. By the time he was a teenager, however, Brolin had begun his own acting career, making his screen debut with a starring role in the Richard Donner-directed and Steven Spielberg-produced adventure comedy "The Goonies" (1985). Notice from the role earned Brolin work in films like "Thrashin'" (1986) and television shows like "The Young Riders" (ABC 1989-1992). Following the cancelation of said series, in which Brolin starred as Wild Bill Hickok, he returned to film acting, accruing roles in "The Road Killers" (1994), David O. Russell's "Flirting with Disaster" (1996), Guillermo del Toro's "Mimic" (1997), and "My Brother's War" (1997), directed by his father James. The decade to follow paired Brolin with a number of big name directors: he appeared in Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda" (2004), Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's "Grindhouse" (2007), Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country for Old Men" (2007), Gus Van Sant's "Milk" (2008), and Oliver Stone's "W." (2008), in which Brolin played President George W. Bush. He reteamed with Stone for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" (2010) and with the Coens for "True Grit" (2010), and then went on to work with Spike Lee on "Oldboy" (2013) and Paul Thomas Anderson on "Inherent Vice" (2014). That same year marked Brolin's first appearance as Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by way of "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014); he reprised the character in "Avengers: Age of Ultron" (2015), "Avengers: Infinity War" (2018), and "Avengers: Endgame" (2019).

Highest rated movies

95% 85% True Grit 94% 90% Avengers: Endgame 93% 89% Milk
93% 86% No Country for Old Men
92% 95% Dune: Part Two 92% 85% Sicario
88% 69% Flirting With Disaster
87% 91% Only the Brave

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Unknown (Character) - 2025
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brothers Unknown (Character),
Producer
- 2024
92% 95% Dune: Part Two Gurney Halleck (Character) $282.0M 2024
83% 90% Dune Gurney Halleck (Character) $108.3M 2021
39% 48% Flag Day Uncle Beck (Character) $423.4K 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Bend in the River Executive Producer - 2020
94% 90% Avengers: Endgame Thanos (Character) $858.4M 2019
56% 61% Once Upon a Deadpool Cable (Character) $322.5M 2018
28% 43% The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter Buck Ferguson (Character) - 2018
62% 65% Sicario: Day of the Soldado Matt Graver (Character) $50.1M 2018
84% 86% Deadpool 2 Cable (Character) $324.3M 2018
85% 92% Avengers: Infinity War Thanos (Character) $678.8M 2018
87% 91% Only the Brave Eric Marsh (Character) $18.1M 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story Narrator - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross Narrator,
Executive Producer
- 2016
86% 44% Hail, Caesar! Eddie Mannix (Character) $30.0M 2016
92% 85% Sicario Matt (Character) $46.9M 2015
73% 68% Everest Beck Weathers (Character) $43.2M 2015
74% 53% Inherent Vice Bigfoot Bjornsen (Character) $8.1M 2014
43% 44% Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Dwight McCarthy (Character) $13.8M 2014
34% 54% Labor Day Frank (Character) $13.4M 2013
39% 37% Oldboy Joe Doucett (Character) $2.2M 2013
30% 57% Gangster Squad Sgt. John O'Mara (Character) $46.0M 2013
No Score Yet 84% Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau Executive Producer - 2013
71% 62% Radioman Unknown (Character) - 2012
67% 70% Men in Black 3 Young Agent K (Character) $179.0M 2012
91% 88% Woody Allen: A Documentary Self - 2012
95% 85% True Grit Tom Chaney (Character) $171.0M 2010
55% 44% Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Bretton James (Character) $52.5M 2010
45% 34% You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Roy (Character) $3.2M 2010
94% 91% The Tillman Story Narrator $798.9K 2010
12% 20% Jonah Hex Jonah Hex (Character) $10.5M 2010
29% 29% Women in Trouble Nick Chapel (Character) - 2009
93% 89% Milk Dan White (Character) $31.8M 2008
58% 42% W. President George W. Bush (Character) $25.5M 2008
77% 77% Planet Terror Block (Character) - 2007
93% 86% No Country for Old Men Llewelyn Moss (Character) $74.3M 2007
74% 77% In the Valley of Elah Chief Buchwald (Character) $6.8M 2007
84% 87% Grindhouse William (Character) $25.0M 2007
81% 90% American Gangster Detective Trupo (Character) $130.1M 2007
76% 65% The Dead Girl Tarlow (Character) $17.3K 2006
21% 57% Into the Blue Bates (Character) $18.5M 2005
51% 47% Melinda and Melinda Greg (Character) $3.8M 2004
38% 50% Milwaukee, Minnesota Gary (Character) $17.4K 2003
48% 29% Coastlines Dave Lockhart (Character) $6.5K 2002
12% 12% Slow Burn Duster (Character) - 2000
26% 28% Hollow Man Matthew Kensington (Character) $73.2M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Picnic Hal Carter (Character) - 2000
27% 44% All the Rage Unknown (Character) - 1999
43% 39% Best Laid Plans Bryce (Character) $25.7K 1999
3% 17% The Mod Squad Billy Waites (Character) $13.3M 1999
27% 46% Nightwatch James Gallman (Character) $1.2M 1998
No Score Yet 50% My Brother's War Pete (Character) - 1997
65% 37% Mimic Josh (Character) $25.5M 1997
No Score Yet 38% Gang in Blue Keith DeBruler (Character) - 1996
88% 69% Flirting With Disaster Tony (Character) $14.8M 1996
19% 67% Bed of Roses Danny (Character) $19.0M 1996
No Score Yet 33% Roadflower Tom (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finish Line Glenn Shrevelow (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Neon Payback Johnny Betts (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Private Eye Johnny Betts (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 71% Thrashin' Corey Webster (Character) - 1986
77% 91% The Goonies Brandon "Brand" Walsh (Character) $935.0K 1985

TV

Credit
85% 74% Outer Range Royal Abbott (Character),
Executive Producer
2022 2024
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Unknown (Character),
Guest
2010-2012 2015 2018-2019 2024
No Score Yet 62% Saturday Night Live Host 2008 2012 2024
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2015 2018 2024
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2016 2018 2022 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2018 2024
89% 79% What If...? Thanos (Guest Voice),
Unknown (Voice)
2021 2023
86% 71% George & Tammy Executive Producer 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Guest 2014 2022
No Score Yet 62% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hot Ones Self 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ride With Norman Reedus Guest 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet 20/20 Guest 2018
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2014 2016 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2012 2016
100% 90% Late Show With David Letterman Guest 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2013
83% No Score Yet Mankind: The Story of All of Us Narrator 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wild Americas Narrator 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2010 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Inside the Actors Studio Guest 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Conan O'Brien Guest 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mister Sterling Unknown (Character) 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Outer Limits Jack Pierce (Character) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Young Riders James Butler Hickok (Character) 1989-1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Private Eye Johnny Betts (Character) 1987-1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet 21 Jump Street Taylor Rolador (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 64% Highway to Heaven Josh Bryant (Guest Star) 1986