Joshua Jackson Biography
Born: June 11, 1978
From The_Mighty_Ducks to the mighty Dawson, Joshua Jackson has proven to be one of the more promising members of the Hollywood teen invasion. The Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of hellion-with-a-heart-of-gold Pacey Witter on Dawson's_Creek, has enjoyed a rising popularity since Dawson's 1998 premiere and was named one of Teen People's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" in 1999.
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 11, 1978, Jackson spent most of his early childhood in California with his casting director mother. After moving back to Vancouver, Jackson got his start in commercials, and from there went on to appear in a number of forgettable films. His big break came in 1992 with The_Mighty_Ducks and its two sequels. Following these, he got a bit role in a film that was helping to usher in the teen horror flick craze, Scream_2 (1997). Then, in 1998, Jackson landed the part that was to give him stardom in Dawson's_Creek. As the show gained popularity among both critics and television viewers, Jackson was able to broaden his film experience with 1998's Apt_Pupil and Urban_Legend. In 1999 he appeared as the gay and peroxided Blaine Tuttle in Cruel_Intentions, which he starred in with fellow teen sensations Sarah_Michelle_Gellar, Ryan_Phillippe, and Reese_Witherspoon. For his next role, however, Jackson chose to stray from the teen genre with his appearance in Muppets_From_Space (1999), where his co-stars were more likely to do advertisements for the Children's Broadcasting Network than Noxzema.
In 2000, the young actor returned to the teen genre with two separate projects, The_Skulls and Gossip. Both films were set on elite college campuses and featured Jackson as upright young men forced to right the wrongs committed by their peers, something that signified the audience's growing identification with the actor as an unlikely hero for the new millennium.
When Dawson's Creek finally came to a close, he kept plugging away at a movie career showing up in the indie comedy I Love Your Work, Cursed, and Emilio Estevez's Bobby. However, he found his greatest success on the small screen when he was the center of Fringe, a J.J. Abrams sci-fi show that built and maintained a cult audience. In 2012 he was in the Stephen Frears comedy Lay the Favorite. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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