--- name: "Joshua Jackson" canonical: "https://film.one/person/joshua-jackson" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 June 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T01:06:30.574633+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Joshua Jackson Actor. Born 11 June 1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 June 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - **Also known as:** J.J, Joshua Carter Jackson ## Fi1m on Joshua Jackson > Joshua Jackson plays the man who has noticed how absurd everything around him is and keeps noticing until it stops being funny. In *Fringe* that made Peter Bishop the programme's ballast, and it remains the part to start with. Walter Bishop says something appalling, and his son, half a step behind him, says the thing we were about to say. That is the job Joshua Jackson does for most of the first year of *Fringe* (2008): Peter Bishop stands at the edge of the lab with his arms folded and lets us know that he, too, thinks this is mad. It would be easy to play as a smirk. Jackson plays it as a man who has been managing his father for a long time and has learned to get the joke in first. Then, across the five seasons, the joke goes. Peter is sardonic about Walter and then, gradually, not. What we did not expect was to be moved by that, and we were, because Jackson never announces the change. One week he is being funny at his father's expense; some weeks later he is simply watching him, worried, and we could not name the episode where it turned. John Noble is doing the large, strange thing in those scenes and Jackson is doing the small one, and the programme needs both. With Anna Torv playing Olivia Dunham quiet and tight, someone has to keep the tone honest, and it is him. He got there the long way. He was Charlie Conway in *The Mighty Ducks* (1992) as a boy and Pacey Witter, the quick-witted best friend, in *Dawson's Creek* (1998–2003) as a teenager, and the stretch between the boy parts and the grown-up ones was thin. He has said of it, "I wasn't just going through a dry spell — I was dead in the water." The turn came on stage, in *A Life in the Theatre* (2005) opposite Patrick Stewart, and *Fringe* followed three years later. Since then he has mostly been cast as men in trouble of their own making: Cole Lockhart in *The Affair* (2014–2018), the surgeon Christopher Duntsch in *Dr. Death* (2021), and now the lead in *Doctor Odyssey* (2024–2025). We have not reviewed those and will not pretend to a verdict on them. What we can say is that the thing he does best in *Fringe* is a reactive gift, and reactive gifts need someone worth reacting to. Put him next to an actor as odd as Noble and he is as good as anyone on the screen. Put him at the centre of the frame and ask him to be the odd one, and we would want to see it before we promised anything. He has spent a career being the sensible man standing next to the strange one. The interesting question is whether anyone will let him swap places. ## Biography Joshua Jackson is a Canadian-American actor. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 11 June 1978, he began acting as a child and appeared in the *Mighty Ducks* film series as Charlie Conway. He gained prominence playing Pacey Witter in the teen drama series *Dawson's Creek* (1998–2003). Jackson later starred as Peter Bishop in the science fiction series *Fringe* (2008–2013) and as Cole Lockhart in *The Affair* (2014–2019). For his leading role in the Canadian film *One Week* (2008), he won the Genie Award for Best Actor. Other credits include *Cruel Intentions* (1999) and *When They See Us* (2019). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Fringe* (2008), Fi1m 80, as Peter Bishop — [page](https://film.one/tv/fringe.md) ## Also known for - *Scream 2* (1997), Film Class Guy #1 - *Cruel Intentions* (1999), Blaine Tuttle - *Urban Legend* (1998), Damon Brooks - *Karate Kid: Legends* (2025), Victor Lipani - *When They See Us* (2019), Mickey Joseph - *The Mighty Ducks* (1992), Charlie Conway - *Shutter* (2008), Benjamin Shaw - *Cursed* (2005), Jake --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/joshua-jackson