Josh Hartnett

He has dated and has been linked to several beautiful women over the years including Scarlett Johansson, Sophie Lie, Kelly Lee Carlson and Amanda Seyfried.

He has been involved in several social and environmental causes. He supports the green lifestyle campaign of Global Cool and the joint FWD campaign by USAID and Ad Council.

He was born as the son on Wendy Anne and Daniel Thomas Hartnett. He was primarily raised by his building manager father and artist stepmother. He has three younger half-siblings.

He first attended Cretin-Derham Hall High School before shifting to South High School from where he graduated in 1996.

He was an athletic young boy who loved playing sports, especially football. An injury made it impossible for him to continue playing and he was very upset because of this. His aunty encouraged him to audition for a stage production of ‘Tom Sawyer’ in a bid to divert his attention.

He won the part of Huckleberry Finn in the play and realized that he loved acting. He became very popular with the girls because of his cute looks.

He moved to New York after high school to attend the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film, but the experience was not what he had hoped for.

He went to Los Angeles to try his luck at acting. He tried hard, auditioning for around 50 projects in three weeks before landing a role in the ABC crime series ‘Cracker’ in 1997. Even though the series was short lived, it gave considerable exposure to the young actor.

He appeared in some television commercials and small plays for the next two years. In 1998 he was cast as John Tate in the slasher horror film ‘Halloween H20: 20 Years Later’. In spite of getting mixed reviews it was a commercial success.

He played Zeke Tyler in the science fiction horror ‘The Faculty’ in 1998 which also had other stars like Elijah Wood, Laura Harris, Salma Hayek and Jon Stewart in the ensemble. He was nominated for a Saturn Award for his performance.

In 2001, he was part of ensemble cast of the epic war film ‘Pearl Harbor’ directed by Michael Bay. The movie was a dramatization of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid. It was a major box office grosser.

Even though he was seldom cast in a leading role, he often found himself chosen as a part of an ensemble cast of major films. He portrayed SSG Matt Eversmann in the war film ‘Black Hawk Down’ (2001) which chronicled the events in the Battle of Mogadishu.

‘Pearl Harbor’ was one of his biggest box office successes. He played the role of First Lieutenant Daniel Walker in the movie that is a love story set in the backdrop of the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor.