Joshua Leonard
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Joshua Leonard melded his prior indie film experience on- and off-camera and achieved unexpected fame in the low-budget horror blockbuster The Blair Witch Project (1999). After doing theater as a child, Leonard worked in production, as well as acting, in independent and experimental films in New York. Cast as the steadfast cameraman Josh in The Blair Witch Project, Leonard balanced shooting the film's 16mm footage with improvising the increasingly-eerie turn of events, along with fellow cast members Heather Donahue and Michael Williams -- according to directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's fleeting instructions. Savvily-marketed through an Internet site as a "documentary" about an actual, lethal legend after its buzz-generating midnight debut at the Sundance Film Festival, The Blair Witch Project became an enormous summer hit, frightening audiences with its all-too-real sense of impending -- if unseen -- danger. Fans expressed relief that Leonard and his cohorts had not in fact come to their ends in the Maryland woods. After his sudden exit from The Blair Witch Project, Leonard continued working on independent films and moved to L.A. He continued to work in smaller, independent films and appear on the festival circuits promoting his work. Leonard starred in Higher Ground (2011), the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga, and also made his own feature film directorial debut with The Lie. In 2014, he appeared in If I Stay and The Town That Dreaded Sunset and prominent guest roles on Togetherness and Bates Motel. In 2015, he joined the series Heartbreaker as a series regular.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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83% | Fully Realized Humans |
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— | 2021 |
53% | Four Good Days |
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— | 2021 |
No Score Yet | Two Eyes |
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— | 2020 |
84% | Depraved |
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— | 2019 |
No Score Yet | Dark Was the Night |
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— | 2018 |
80% | Unsane |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Behold My Heart |
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— | 2018 |
100% | Teenage Cocktail |
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— | 2016 |
93% | Wildlike |
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— | 2015 |
69% | 6 Years |
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— | 2015 |
66% | The Town That Dreaded Sundown |
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— | 2014 |
35% | If I Stay |
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— | 2014 |
10% | Among Ravens |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Clutter |
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— | 2014 |
70% | The Motel Life |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Sunset Stories |
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— | 2013 |
80% | Snake & Mongoo$e |
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— | 2013 |
74% | The Lie |
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— | 2011 |
18% | Shark Night 3D |
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$18.9M | 2011 |
82% | Higher Ground |
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$0.9M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Treatment |
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— | 2011 |
57% | The Freebie |
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$5k | 2010 |
57% | Bitter Feast |
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— | 2010 |
79% | Humpday |
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$0.3M | 2009 |
62% | Beautiful Losers |
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— | 2008 |
7% | Prom Night |
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$43.9M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 20 Years After |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Expecting Love |
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— | 2008 |
61% | Quid Pro Quo |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Country Remedy |
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— | 2007 |
55% | Hatchet |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Simple Things |
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— | 2006 |
26% | The Shaggy Dog |
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$61.1M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Shooting Livien |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Strand: Venice Beach, CA |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Two Days |
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— | 2004 |
17% | Scorched |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Madhouse |
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— | 2003 |
3% | Deuces Wild |
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$6.1M | 2002 |
78% | Live from Baghdad |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Cubbyhouse (Hellion: The Devil's Playground) (The Cubby House) |
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— | 2001 |
100% | Things Behind the Sun |
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— | 2001 |
42% | Men of Honor |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Sacrifice |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | In the Weeds |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Mission |
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— | 2000 |
86% | The Blair Witch Project |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Larceny |
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— | 1948 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
MacGyver
2016-2021
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61% |
Scorpion
2014-2018
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20% |
Heartbeat
2015
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90% |
Togetherness
2015-2016
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93% |
Bates Motel
2013-2017
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57% |
The Finder
2012
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No Score Yet |
Criminal Minds
2005-2020
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71% |
Hung
2009-2011
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90% |
Bones
2005-2017
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No Score Yet |
Numb3rs
2005-2010
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Miami
2002-2012
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No Score Yet |
CSI: NY
2004-2013
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Quotes from Joshua Leonard's Characters
Denny: | School's out forever! |
Teddy: | Did you really quote Alice Cooper? Have I not taught you anything? |
Lonnie: | My music sucks! |
Clover: | Yeah, your music sucks. |
Radko: | You telling everyone, I'm an old prick? |
Lonnie: | I didn't tell anybody you were an old prick. |
Radko: | How many old pricks work here? Watch it! |