Brolin told an interviewer that co-star Sean Penn, who portrayed Milk, decided to dispel any nerves the actors had about playing gay men by "grabbing the bull by the horns". He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the same-sex marriage movement. I think he really enjoys disappearing into a character.īrolin received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk as city supervisor Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Josh certainly has star appeal and could be a leading man, but I don't think he necessarily wants to be that. Although classically handsome, I think he would consider himself a character actor first and foremost, and it was in this context that I thought of him as W. It always seemed to me that he was the right person. He said of his decision to cast Brolin in the leading role: Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. In 2008, Brolin starred in another Oliver Stone film, W., a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. He also played the lead role in the Coen brothers' Academy Award-winning film No Country for Old Men.
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Two other TV series he was involved in include the Aaron Spelling production Winnetka Road (1994) and Mister Sterling (2003), both of which were cancelled after a few episodes.īrolin's film work consists of many villainous roles in late-2000s/early-2010s films, including Planet Terror (one of two feature-length segments of the Quentin Tarantino/ Robert Rodriguez collaboration Grindhouse), American Gangster, and Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. One of Brolin's more prominent roles early in his career was that of "Wild Bill" Hickok in the ABC western TV series The Young Riders, which lasted three seasons (1989–92). For several years, he appeared in stage roles in Rochester, New York, often alongside mentor and friend Anthony Zerbe. He has implied that he turned away from film acting for years after the premiere of his second film, Thrashin', where he witnessed what he called "horrendous" acting on his part.
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īrolin played a small role in the 1994 movie Roadflower. Brolin guest-starred in an episode of the show in its first season. He was considered for the role of Tom Hanson in the series 21 Jump Street he and Johnny Depp were the finalists for the role, and the two became close and remained friends. Most of those guys I grew up with, they're all dead now." Career Acting īrolin started his career in TV films and guest roles on TV shows before landing a more notable role as Brandon Walsh in the Richard Donner-directed film The Goonies (1985). I've never seen a group like that before or since." He admitted to stealing cars to pay for his drug use, which included heroin, a drug that he explained he did not like: "I mean, I never got into it and I never died from it, which is a good thing. You either had the children of rich, neglectful parents or children of poor, so it was a mix.
In his description of the group, he said, "It was Santa Barbara. His parents divorced in 1984, when he was 16 years old.īrolin said in a 2014 interview that during his teenage years, he was a member of a surfing friendship group who called themselves the "Cito Rats". Brolin was raised on a ranch in Templeton, California, with little exposure to his father's acting career. In 2022, he starred in the supernatural mystery series Outer Range.īrolin was born on February 12, 1968, in Santa Monica, California, the son of Jane Cameron (Agee), a wildlife activist who was a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, and actor James Brolin.
In 2021, he returned to provide the voice for an alternate timeline version of Thanos in the animated series What If.? and portrayed Gurney Halleck in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic Dune (2021). He played Marvel Comics supervillain Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe first appearing in an uncredited role in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), the post-credits scene of Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and later starring in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award.īrolin has appeared in films such as The Goonies (1985), Mimic (1997), Hollow Man (2000), Grindhouse (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), American Gangster (2007), W. Josh James Brolin ( / ˈ b r oʊ l ɪ n/ born February 12, 1968) is an American actor.