Josh Hamilton
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Biography
This dark-haired, slightly-built native New Yorker got his start in the theater. In 1993, he, Ethan Hawke and others co-founded the Malaparte Theater Company, whose productions have included Piranadello's "The Joke." With other companies, Hamilton has appeared in the plays "As Sure as You Live," "Korea," "Romance Language" and "Four Corners," among others.
Hamilton was first seen nationally on TV, in the movie "The Exchange Student" (CBS, 1985). Small roles, like in "Not My Kid" (also CBS, 1985), and guest spots in the series "Kate and Allie" and "A Man Called Hawk" followed. He appeared as Lovely Mead, one of the turn-of-the-century preppies in PBS's "The Prodigious Hickey" (1987) and its sequels "The Return of Hickey" (1988) and "The Beginning of the Firm" (1989). Hamilton's pensive good looks and sympathetically brainy quality mixed with his low-key style in other specials, such as "Abby, My Love" (a CBS incest drama for which he won a Daytime Emmy in 1991), "Women and Wallace" (PBS, 1990) and Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" (CBS, 1992).
Hamilton made his film debut in 1984, playing small roles in the dramas "Old Enough" and "Firstborn." He had a tiny role--as Martha Plimpton's boyfriend--in Woody Allen's "Another Woman" (1988). Hamilton stayed away from the big screen until 1993, when he appeared as one of the few surviving rugby players in the true-life plane crash story "Alive" which co-starred Ethan Hawke. He also appeared in Hawke's short film "Straight to One." The weak comedy "With Honors" (1994), as an annoying Harvard undergrad, came next, before he landed his first starring film role. In the twentysomething buddy comedy "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), Hamilton played Grover, a recent college grad whose girlfriend (Olivia d'Abo) leaves him to study in Prague. He next filmed Ismail Merchant's "La Proprietaire" (1996)
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Life Events
1984
Made feature acting debut in "Old Enough"
1985
Acted on several "CBS Schoolbreak Specials" including "The Exchange Student"
1987
Played Lovely Mead in PBS productions of "The Prodigious Hickey" and its sequels "The Return of Hickey" and "The Beginning of the Firm"
1993
First major role in a film, "Alive"
1993
Co-founded Malaparte Theater Company, NYC
1995
First starring role, "Kicking and Screaming"
1997
Co-starred with Parker Posey in "The House of Yes"
1998
Acted opposite J. Smith-Cameron in off-Broadway hit "As Bees in Honey Drown"
1999
Appeared in off-Broadway presentation of "The Cider House Rules"
1999
Landed featured role in NBC miniseries "The 60s"
2000
Starred in off-Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago/The Duck Variations"
2000
Portrayed a bartender in "Urbania"
2001
Made Broadway debut in "Proof" assuming role originated by Ben Shenkman
2001
Landed recurring role on NBC's "Third Watch"
2003
Starred as a computer wiz who starts an adult internet site in comedy feature "On-Line"
2006
Cast in Broadway play "The Coast of Utopia"
2007
Reunited with Parker Posey in Zoe Cassavetes' directorial debut "Broken English"
2009
Played supporting role in romantic comedy "Away We Go"
2011
Cast opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Clint Eastwood's biographical drama "J. Edgar"
2013
Co-starred with Keri Russell in sci-fi thriller "Dark Skies"
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