Joshua Jackson
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From The Mighty Ducks to the mighty Dawson, Joshua Jackson has proven to be one of the more promising members of the Hollywood teen invasion. The Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of hellion-with-a-heart-of-gold Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek, has enjoyed a rising popularity since Dawson's 1998 premiere and was named one of Teen People's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" in 1999.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 11, 1978, Jackson spent most of his early childhood in California with his casting director mother. After moving back to Vancouver, Jackson got his start in commercials, and from there went on to appear in a number of forgettable films. His big break came in 1992 with The Mighty Ducks and its two sequels. Following these, he got a bit role in a film that was helping to usher in the teen horror flick craze, Scream 2 (1997). Then, in 1998, Jackson landed the part that was to give him stardom in Dawson's Creek. As the show gained popularity among both critics and television viewers, Jackson was able to broaden his film experience with 1998's Apt Pupil and Urban Legend. In 1999 he appeared as the gay and peroxided Blaine Tuttle in Cruel Intentions, which he starred in with fellow teen sensations Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, and Reese Witherspoon. For his next role, however, Jackson chose to stray from the teen genre with his appearance in Muppets From Space (1999), where his co-stars were more likely to do advertisements for the Children's Broadcasting Network than Noxzema.In 2000, the young actor returned to the teen genre with two separate projects, The Skulls and Gossip. Both films were set on elite college campuses and featured Jackson as upright young men forced to right the wrongs committed by their peers, something that signified the audience's growing identification with the actor as an unlikely hero for the new millennium.When Dawson's Creek finally came to a close, he kept plugging away at a movie career showing up in the indie comedy I Love Your Work, Cursed, and Emilio Estevez's Bobby. However, he found his greatest success on the small screen when he was the center of Fringe, a J.J. Abrams sci-fi show that built and maintained a cult audience and ran from 2008 to 2013. Once Fringe wrapped up, he was immediately cast in The Affair, opposite Dominic West, Ruth Wilson and Maura Tierney. The show was critically lauded and Jackson received a People's Choice Award nomination for his work.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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50% | Sky |
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— | 2016 |
17% | Inescapable |
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$4.6k | 2013 |
18% | Lay the Favorite |
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$21.5k | 2012 |
56% | Battle in Seattle |
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— | 2008 |
9% | Shutter |
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$25.9M | 2008 |
50% | One Week |
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— | 2008 |
46% | Bobby |
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$11.1M | 2006 |
68% | Aurora Borealis |
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— | 2006 |
43% | Shadows in the Sun |
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— | 2005 |
22% | I Love Your Work |
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— | 2005 |
16% | Cursed |
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— | 2005 |
35% | Racing Stripes |
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$49.2M | 2005 |
63% | Americano |
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— | 2005 |
92% | The Laramie Project |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Lone Star State of Mind |
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— | 2002 |
83% | Ocean's Eleven |
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$183.4M | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Wind River |
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— | 2001 |
50% | The Safety of Objects |
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$86.8k | 2001 |
29% | Gossip |
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— | 2000 |
9% | The Skulls |
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— | 2000 |
63% | Muppets From Space |
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— | 1999 |
55% | Cruel Intentions |
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— | 1999 |
53% | Apt Pupil (Un Élève Doué) |
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— | 1998 |
22% | Urban Legend |
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— | 1998 |
81% | Scream 2 |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Ronnie & Julie |
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— | 1997 |
20% | D3: The Mighty Ducks |
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— | 1996 |
21% | Magic in the Water |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Robin of Locksley |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Digger |
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— | 1994 |
20% | D2: The Mighty Ducks |
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— | 1994 |
50% | Andre |
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— | 1994 |
23% | The Mighty Ducks |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Crooked Hearts |
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— | 1991 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
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78% |
Little Fires Everywhere
2020
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97% |
When They See Us
2019
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86% |
The Affair
2014-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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41% |
Chelsea
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
Years of Living Dangerously
2014-2016
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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90% |
Fringe
2008-2013
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Dawson's Creek
1998-2003
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No Score Yet |
Saturday Night Live
1975
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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Quotes from Joshua Jackson's Characters
Ronald: | You look like your dad. |
Duncan Shorter: | You do too. |
Ronald: | I'm better looking......Grandpa's little helper. |
Ronald: | I'm better looking.Grandpa's little helper. |
Greg McConnell: | [Sebastian walks in on Blaine and Greg fooling around] Shit! Give me my fucking underwear! |
Blaine Tuttle: | All right! Don't get so huffy! |
Damon: | I'll see you two in class tomorrow. |
Brenda: | Unfortunately. |
Damon: | (after Natalie shares a story with Damon about the loss of her friend) - You're lonely. You're repressed. You're aching to break loose. Those are the type of problems that only a man can fix. |
Damon: | (after Natalie shares a story with Damon about the loss of her friend) You're lonely. You're repressed. You're aching to break loose. Those are the type of problems that only a man can fix. |
Natalie: | (sees that Damon is faking his feelings; and just wants to get laid) - And I suppose you're that man? |
Natalie: | (sees that Damon is faking his feelings; and just wants to get laid) And I suppose you're that man? |
Damon: | Well, you know? |
Natalie: | Nice try. That was a fairly good impersonation of a human being. |
Damon: | I understand you're afraid. But you don't have to be afraid anymore. You don't have to be afraid to love. (He leans in for a kiss) |
Natalie: | (she punches Damon in the face) - Start the car right now! |
Natalie: | (she punches Damon in the face) Start the car right now! |
Damon: | Okay, that hurt. I'm just trying to help you out here. You don't have to act like such a bitch. |
Natalie: | It's not an act. Believe me. |
Damon: | You sure you don't wanna think this over...'Cause I'm all about healing. |
Damon: | You sure you don't wanna think this over 'Cause I'm all about healing. |
Natalie: | One black eye or two? You decide. |
Damon: | All right, fine. I'm gonna take a piss. I'll be right back. |
Natalie: | Pig. |
Damon: | I don't really want this to get out around campus...but I can actually be a pretty good listener every once in a while. |
Damon: | I don't really want this to get out around campus, but I can actually be a pretty good listener every once in a while. |
Damon: | Parker said he's gonna pierce Hootie's nose. |
Natalie: | Hootie's a dog. |
Damon: | Yeah, there's no reason he can't be hip. |
Brenda: | (about the girl who was murdered) - Hey did anyone here know her? She roomed in Daley. |
Brenda: | (about the girl who was murdered) Hey did anyone here know her? She roomed in Daley. |
Parker: | No. |
Sasha: | No. |
Brenda: | (Brenda sees Natalie daydreaming) - Hello? (Snaps her fingers) ...Space cadet? |
Brenda: | (Brenda sees Natalie daydreaming) Hello? (Snaps her fingers) Space cadet? |
Natalie: | Oh, no, I didn't know her. |
Damon: | Actually, you know, I did know her. |
Sasha: | You did? |
Damon: | (looks saddened) - Yeah...I'll miss her, too, 'cause...that girl gave great head. (Starts laughing) You get it? She gave great head. (Laughs) Come on...That was good. |
Damon: | (looks saddened) Yeah, I'll miss her, too, 'cause that girl gave great head. (Starts laughing) You get it? She gave great head. (Laughs) Come on, that was good. |
Professor Wexler: | Something you might have heard about mixing Pop Rocks and soda? |
Brenda: | Well, supposedly...your stomach and your intestines, everything bursts. |
Professor Wexler: | Really? Anyone you know who died this way? |
Brenda: | Mikey, from the cereal commercial. Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything. |
Professor Wexler: | (puts up a picture of little Mikey from the commercial) - You mean him? |
Professor Wexler: | (puts up a picture of little Mikey from the commercial) You mean him? |
Parker: | (mimics little Mikey from the commercial) - "Mikey likes it." |
Parker: | (mimics little Mikey from the commercial) 'Mikey likes it.' |
Professor Wexler: | What if I told you that this is Mikey...alive and well and working as an ad executive in New York City? Would you drink some then? |
Professor Wexler: | What if I told you that this is Mikey, alive and well and working as an ad executive in New York City? Would you drink some then? |
Damon: | (about swallowing the pop rocks) - I'll do it! |
Damon: | (about swallowing the pop rocks) I'll do it! |
Natalie: | (after Damon pops up and scares Natalie and Brenda) - She was trying to summon the dead, Damon...not frat boys with badly grown facial hair. |
Natalie: | (after Damon pops up and scares Natalie and Brenda) She was trying to summon the dead, Damon, not frat boys with badly grown facial hair. |
Damon: | It took me a month to grow this. |
Brenda: | So is this what you do for your free time, Damon? Hang out in the dark by yourself, waiting to scare people like a freak? |
Damon: | Only when I see two losers stand in front of this relic...trying to summon the dead. |
Damon: | Only when I see two losers stand in front of this relic, trying to summon the dead. |
Damon: | (Damon has just sneaked up on Brenda and Natalie, proceeding to scare them half to death) - Boo! |
Damon: | (Damon has just sneaked up on Brenda and Natalie, proceeding to scare them half to death) Boo! |