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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 12, 1968
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Josh J. Brolin
- Josh James Brolin
Josh Brolin
6.3 Popularity
Biography
Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). After years of decline, Brolin had a resurgence with his starring role in the crime film No Country for Old Men (2007). Brolin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Dan White in the biopic Milk (2008). Brolin's career progressed with roles in W. (2008), True Grit (2010), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Oldboy (2013), Inherent Vice (2014), Everest (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016). He gained wider recognition for playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), including in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018). Brolin also collaborated with filmmaker Denis Villeneuve in the action thriller Sicario (2015) and in the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), in which he played Gurney Halleck.
Known For
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Gurney Halleck
Dune: Part Three
2026
0.0
Mitt Gardiner
Whalefall
2026
0.0
Bangley
The Dog Stars
2026
7.0
Self
Breakdown: 1975
2025
7.2
Mons. Jefferson Wicks
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
5.2
George Washington (voice)
The American Revolution
2025
5.2
George Washington
The American Revolution
2025
6.8
Dan Killian
The Running Man
2025
7.2
Narrator (voice)
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford
2025
7.3
Archer
Weapons
2025
Credits
Dune: Part Three
as Gurney Halleck
2026
0.0
Whalefall
as Mitt Gardiner
2026
0.0
The Dog Stars
as Bangley
2026
0.0
Breakdown: 1975
as Self
2025
7.0
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Mons. Jefferson Wicks
2025
7.2
The American Revolution
as George Washington (voice)
2025
5.2
The American Revolution
as George Washington
2025
5.2
The Running Man
as Dan Killian
2025
6.8
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford
as Narrator (voice)
2025
7.2
Weapons
as Archer
2025
7.3
Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation
as Self
2025
6.2
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
2025
7.7
Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross
as Narrator
2024
0.0
Brothers
as Moke Munger
2024
5.9
Dune: Part Two
as Gurney Halleck
2024
8.1
N-Men: The Untold Story
as John O’Shei
2023
0.0
Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear
as Narrator
2023
0.0
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Josh Brolin & Josh Brolin | Actors on Actors – Full Conversation
as Josh Brolin / Josh Brolin
2022
0.0
Outer Range
as Royal Abbott
2022
6.9
Dune
as Gurney Halleck
2021
7.8
Flag Day
as Uncle Beck
2021
5.8
What If...?
as Thanos (voice)
2021
8.1
Marvel Studios Legends
as Thanos (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.4
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self
2020
8.1
Russo Bros. Pizza Film School
2020
0.0
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
The Tony Alva Story
as Self
2019
10.0
Avengers: Endgame
as Thanos
2019
8.2
Once Upon a Deadpool
as Cable
2018
7.1
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Matt Graver
2018
6.9
Deadpool 2
as Cable
2018
7.5
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos
2018
8.2
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
as Buck Ferguson
2018
5.2
Only the Brave
as Eric Marsh
2017
7.5
🎬
Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
as Narrator (voice)
2016
0.0
Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross
as Narrator (voice)
2016
6.3
Ride with Norman Reedus
as Self
2016
7.3
Hail, Caesar!
as Eddie Mannix
2016
5.9
Sicario
as Matt Graver
2015
7.4
Everest
as Beck Weathers
2015
6.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
Chryskylodon Blues
as Self
2015
6.0
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Thanos (uncredited)
2015
7.3
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Inherent Vice
as Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
2014
6.5
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Dwight
2014
6.4
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Thanos (uncredited)
2014
7.9
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Labor Day
as Frank
2013
7.0
Oldboy
as Joe Doucett
2013
5.9
Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau
as Self - Narrator
2013
6.3
Gangster Squad
as John O'Mara
2013
6.4
Radioman
as Self
2012
6.0
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
as Self - Narrator
2012
6.8
Untamed Americas
as Narrator
2012
6.8
Men in Black 3
as Young Agent K
2012
6.5
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
6.8
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
as Self
2011
0.0
Blackout
as Terrance Danfield
2011
3.3
True Grit
as Tom Chaney
2010
7.3
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
The Women of SNL
as Various (archive footage)
2010
6.0
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Roy
2010
5.9
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Bretton James
2010
6.1
The Tillman Story
as Narrator (voice)
2010
7.1
Jonah Hex
as Jonah Hex
2010
5.0
The People Speak
as Self
2009
7.2
Women in Trouble
as Nick Chapel
2009
5.1
30 for 30
as Narrator (voice)
2009
7.4
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
as Bar Guy (archive footage)
2009
8.4
Milk
as Dan White
2008
7.2
W.
as George W. Bush
2008
6.2
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
as Self
2008
0.0
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
as Self
2008
6.6
Stand Up to Cancer
as Self
2008
7.8
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
as Self
2008
6.9
🎬
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
as Self
2008
0.0
No Country for Old Men
as Llewelyn Moss
2007
7.9
American Gangster
as Detective Trupo
2007
7.6
To Each His Own Cinema
as (segment "World cinema")
2007
6.5
In the Valley of Elah
as Chief Buchwald
2007
6.8
Chelsea Lately
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.5
Planet Terror
as Dr. William Block
2007
6.7
Grindhouse
as Block (segment "Planet Terror")
2007
7.0
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Dead Girl
as Tarlow
2006
6.0
Into the Blue
as Bates
2005
5.9
🎬
Diving Deeper 'Into the Blue'
as Self
2005
0.0
Into the West
as Jedediah Smith
2005
7.9
Melinda and Melinda
as Greg
2004
6.2
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Milwaukee, Minnesota
as Gary
2003
4.6
Mister Sterling
as Bill Sterling
2003
7.5
Coastlines
as Dave Lockhart
2002
5.0
Lorraine
as Self
2001
2.4
Slow Burn
as Duster
2000
4.1
Hollow Man
as Matthew Kensington
2000
6.0
Picnic
as Hal Carter
2000
3.7
It's the Rage
as Tennel
1999
5.3
Best Laid Plans
as Bryce
1999
5.7
The Mod Squad
as Billy Waites
1999
4.3
My Brother's War
as Pete
1997
4.7
Mimic
as Josh
1997
6.1
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Nightwatch
as James Gallman
1997
6.0
Gang in Blue
as Keith DeBruler
1996
5.0
Flirting with Disaster
as Tony Kent
1996
6.2
Bed of Roses
as Danny
1996
5.8
The Outer Limits
as Jack Pierce
1995
7.7
The Road Killers
as Tom
1994
5.4
Winnetka Road
as Jack Passion
1994
3.0
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
6.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
The Young Riders
as Wild Bill Hickok
1989
7.3
Finish Line
as Glenn Shrevelow
1989
4.3
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
Private Eye
as Johnny Betts
1987
4.2
21 Jump Street
as Taylor Rolator
1987
7.2
Prison for Children
as Boise
1987
5.2
Thrashin'
as Corey Webster
1986
6.2
The Goonies
as Brand
1985
7.5
The Making of 'The Goonies'
as Self
1985
6.7
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
🎬
Mister
N/A
0.0
🎬
My Darling California
as Roland
N/A
0.0