Josh Brolin

Born on February 12, 1968, in Los Angeles (California), Josh J. Brolin was the first child of the famous actor James Brolin , and Jane Cameron Agee, an aspiring Fox actress, whom he had met during the filming of an episode of the Batman series (1966) . Apparently the boy’s name comes from Josh Randall, a character played by Steve McQueen in the series Wanted: Dead or Alive. She had a most happy childhood on his parents’ ranch, until their traumatic divorce, which she never fully got over. The actor was totally against the lifestyle of Hollywood stars, because he blames the disintegration of his family on the fact that his parents were actors. His father later bonded with Barbra Streisand , who became Josh’s stepmother.

He made his film debut at the age of 17 as Brand, the oldest of the protagonists of The Goonies , a group of boys who accidentally find a treasure map and set off in search of it. The film – based on a story by Steven Spielberg – was a great box office success. Since The Goonies , Brolin’s career has been an atypical one. The youth film Trashin’ , where he played a boy passionate about skateboarding, failed miserably, and from that moment on the boy was relegated to television, with small appearances in series like Highway to Heaven , Young Cops or Private Eye . In the end he became one of the protagonists ofYoung Riders , a series set in the Wild West, about the messengers of the Pony Express. The actress Alice Adair ( Hollywood Detective II ) came to appear in the series, with whom Brolin had married and had two children. Four years after going down the aisle they divorced, and Brolin remains together with fellow actress Diane Lane .

The actor has dedicated a lot of time to the theater, especially the VeVa Theater festival in New York. For that contest he interpreted and directed numerous works. He also starred in “True West” on Broadway, opposite Sam Shepard . In the cinema, they only offered him supporting roles in the most diverse films, such as Flirting with Disaster , The Night Shadow , Mimic and The Man Without a Shadow.. But they didn’t quite fill him, especially since some ended up becoming a real disaster, so Brolin decided to rethink his profession. Fed up with having to accept ‘food’ papers, he sold the family mansion. With the money he obtained in this operation, he became a stock investor, which allowed him some economic leeway. From then on, not being in need of money, he carefully chooses the films in which he gets involved, in search of opportunities that are really worthwhile. It begins to turn around his career when he gets Woody Allen to notice him to play one of the characters in Melinda and Melinda .

2007 was the best year in Josh Brolin’s artistic life. He began by playing a doctor on the side of evil in Planet Terror , Robert Rodríguez’s contribution to the Grindhouse diptych . Then he was put under the orders of the Coen brothers, where he was a guy who happens to find a dead man with a briefcase full of money, so he decides to run away with the money, despite the fact that a relentless assassin is after him. . Brolin succeeded in the challenge, since his character had as much weight in the plot (or more) than those of Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, who at that time far surpassed him in prestige and popularity. That same year he gave him time to play a cop unwilling to collaborate with the protagonist -againTommy Lee Jones – who was investigating the murder of his son, a soldier who had returned from Iraq, in the film In the Valley of Elah . Also in 2007, he had time to shine as a secondary with his role as a corrupt policeman, in American Gangster .

After his brilliant consecration in such a short space of time, it was difficult for Josh Brolin to meet the expectations he had unleashed. However, he kept the bar high in 2008 with two real-life characters from the world of politics, one of them President George W. Bush himself, still in office when W. , a biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone , was shot . Brolin managed to give many nuances to the character, which he even physically remembered at many times. The other politician has been Dan White , a rival of the homosexual councilor who is the protagonist of My Name is Harvey Milk . Signed by Woody Allen to star in a film with Anthony Hopkins himself, Brolin also heads the cast of Jonah Hex , a comic book western adaptation.