Josh Harnett

Josh Hartnett was born thirty years ago in San Francisco, California (United States). Since his first appearance on the small screen with the series Craker , about moonlighting as a psychologist to make ends meet, Hartnett, who was then 19 years old and the doctor’s son, has already become an idol of the youth masses. But the series did not leave the United States and it would still be a while before they catapulted it towards the world rankings of the most desired. But not much either. Within months he made his big debut in Halloween: H20 , a scare horror film, which would be followed by The Faculty . It was not long before Josh Hartnett’s face was hanging on the walls of girls’ rooms all over the world.

Tall, handsome and unattainable. We also saw it in Sofia Coppola ‘s drama The Virgin Suicides , a brilliant family tragedy marked by doom in which the actor plays a high school heartthrob. After this, the young star joined Chris Klein and Leelee Sobieski to participate in Here on Earth , another film aimed at adolescent audiences.

2001 was a great year. Already more trained as an actor, Ridley Scott chose him to star in Black Hawk Down . At last the young interpreter tackled a new genre, the war. For this, he trained for months in a kind of military service, where he had the opportunity to meet the real soldier he played. The film, which won two statuettes for editing and sound, confirmed our protagonist as one of the best performers of his generation. The same year he released Pearl Harbor , another film about the war, somewhat weak but which still gave him more fame among the general public. From 2001 he also dates Entanglements of society , choral comedy where he appeared as a secondary next to Diane Keaton ,Warren Beatty , Goldie Hawn , Andie MacDowell , and Charlton Heston , among others.

A year later he returned to adolescent cinema with 40 days and 40 nights . Romantic comedy in which a womanizer who is somewhat dissatisfied with his way of treating women decides to voluntarily submit to a kind of sexual Lent. He then became Harrison Ford ‘s partner in the ill-advised Hollywood: Homicide Department , a humorous action film that was anything but funny. In 2005 he developed a small role in Sin City (City of sin) . There, dressed like a hunk and under the effects that Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez brought to the film, we saw Josh Hartnett in one of his most seductive… and malevolent roles.

Shortly after, he released The Slevin Case , an entertaining thriller in which the actor finds himself in the crosshairs of the mafia after being mistaken for another man. Another interesting thriller was the one in which he starred alongside Scarlett Johansson and Aaron Eckhart . The Black Dahlia , by Brian de Palma , takes us back to the 40s, where two former boxers turned policemen try to solve a crime that will question the friendship that has united them for some time.

His last big appearance was in The Last Assault . In it, Hartnett, in a new dramatic role, plays a run-down sports journalist who will find in Samuel L. Jackson , a former boxer, the solution to the decadence he has been dragging for some time.

Josh Hartnett has shown that he’s not just good at playing the cute guy; his performances in tapes of various genres are proof of this. One piece of advice: listen to him in the original version, his powerful deep voice is clumsily wasted by the Spanish dubbing of the typical teenage voice, a role in which they seem to want to pigeonhole him despite his varied filmography.