Josh Hartnett

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Name : Joshua Daniel Hartnett
Profession : Actor
Date of Birth : July 21, 1978
Place of Birth : San Francisco, CA

With a string of big-budget titles to his credit, Hartnett
has emerged from the crowded ranks of late-90s teen heartthrobs to
become a sought after leading man.

Although born in California, Hartnett was raised in St. Paul,
Minnesota, where his first passion was football. After a knee injury
sidelined the tall, clean-cut teenager, he was encouraged by his aunt
to take up acting. Despite an acting resume that included only local
theater productions and a lone commercial, Hartnett took off for Los
Angeles shortly after graduating from high school.

With unprecedented speed he landed his first job, a part in the
television series Cracker (1997). Although the show was short-lived,
the exposure resulted in his first feature role. Playing Jamie Lee
Curtis' son in the popular horror film Halloween H20 (1998), Hartnett
struck gold with the teen demographic. Soon after, he appeared in The
Faculty (1998), yet another blood-and-guts thriller that played on his
all-American good looks.

But in a surprising departure from such increasingly lucrative teen
fare, Hartnett appeared in Sophia Coppola's decidedly adult
exploration of teenage sexuality The Virgin Suicides (1999). His
nuanced portrayal of Troy, a sexually precocious 1970s seducer
attracted critical notice. It was also noticed by director Michael
Bay, who then cast Hartnett opposite Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale
in his $135 million WWII epic Pearl Harbor (2001). Although the
flashy, special-effects driven film received only a lukewarm critical
reception, Hartnett soon found himself in more military fare, this
time in Black Hawk Down (2001), Ridley Scott's controversial portrayal
of U.S. involvement in Somalia