Joshua Jackson

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1978 age 0

   Born

2. 1997 age 19

   CreditScream 2

3. 1998 age 20

   CreditUrban Legend

4. 1999 age 21

   CreditCruel Intentions

5. 2001 age 23

   CreditOcean's Eleven

6. 2006 age 28

   CreditBobby

• NMNeal H. Moritz2 titles
• KWKevin Williamson2 titles
• RGRebecca Gayheart2 titles
• TRTara Reid2 titles
• HGHeather Graham2 titles
• SGSarah Michelle Gellar2 titles
• SBSelma Blair2 titles
• DWDavid Warner1 title
• AFAnne Fletcher1 title
• LFLaurence Fishburne1 title

• Spouse

  • JTJodie Turner-Smith

• Partner

  • DKDiane Kruger
  • LNLupita Nyong'o

Nothing recorded for: Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• Nobody liked the caesar haircut. It was such an issue this year. There were memos about it. (...) I knew it was doomed when my grandmother, who swore she would never leave Ireland again, came over for the last time, walked in the door and told me I had to change my hairstyle. Not for my own sake, but because I had 'relations' and it's embarrassing for them.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Four years ago, I was working steadily but I felt I was disappointing my family, my friends in not living up to what they expected of me. When The Skulls came along I was drawn to it because it's a morality tale encapsulated in a thriller about a guy caught in a Faustian bargain between doing the right thing and the siren song of 'Just let go of your morality and think of all you can have.' Being Irish, I come from a Celtic tradition of storytellers and this was a story I wanted to help tell. I can honestly say I've never worked harder. But to go to bed every night saying to yourself, 'Man, I'm exhausted, but I did a great day's work' it's the best feeling you can have in this planet.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'm unfettered by the world, which is a very unique place to be at my age. I'll have to eventually choose what these next few years will be about, but I'm not in a rush. Besides, my personal life is much more important to me than my professional life and my self-worth isn't based on whether or not I act. I love acting, but I'm also looking into the great wide-open at this as-yet unpainted mural that will be my life. Whether or not it involves the movie business I'm not sure. I'm much more interested in becoming a good man than in becoming a good actor.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Right now there are a lot of young actors out there. And in the next couple of years, there's inevitably going to be a thinning of the herd. I think if I improve as I go, I'll survive the slaughter.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out. I have a pretty thick skin about people coming up to me and saying things to me when I'm out, I don't really mind that too much. but when people are just loud and annoying, it drives me crazy.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't feel that I need to play characters who are role models for young people. If you are only good, you leave them to explore the bad on their own.

  Joshua Jackson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

Canada, United States, Ireland

Height

188 cm

Languages

English

Years active

1990–

Education

Ideal Mini School, Kitsilano Secondary School