Josh Stewart

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Josh Stewart
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Stewart in 2012
Born
Joshua Regnall Stewart

(1977-02-06) February 6, 1977 (age 47)
Diana, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • writer
Years active1999–present
Spouses
Deanna Brigidi
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(m. 2007;div. 2016)​
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(m. 2019)​
Children2

Joshua Regnall Stewart (born February 6, 1977) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Holt McLaren in the FX TV series Dirt and as Detective William LaMontagne Jr., on the CBS series Criminal Minds . He was also cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC TV series Third Watch and as Barsad in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises , for whom he also appeared in small roles in Interstellar and Tenet . Other roles include War Machine and a major antagonist in Netflix's The Punisher (2019). [1]

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Early life

Stewart was born in Diana, West Virginia, [2] the son of Margie and Charles Regnall Stewart. His father was a high school physical education teacher as well as a former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Webster Springs and Holly River Baptist Church, and is now pastor at the Redeeming Grace Baptist Church in Webster Springs. His mother is a sixth grade teacher at Webster Springs Elementary. [3] Stewart first attended West Virginia Wesleyan College, then transferred to West Virginia University, where he studied business. [4] After graduating from WVU, he moved to New York City to pursue acting. [5]

Acting career

Early career

Stewart got his start doing local theater at the Landmark Theatre in Sutton, West Virginia, and eventually moved to New York City to study at the T. Schreiber studios. [2] He was a company member of the 13th Street Repertory Theatre. He continued his theater in Los Angeles, performing in Light Bulb and Beacon alongside Robert Forster and Brooke Shields. [2]

Stewart appeared as an extra in The WB series Dawson's Creek episode "To Green, With Love". In 2003 he filmed a pilot for a Western for ABC entitled Then Came Jones. [6] In the pilot he played the character of Bill Jenkins.

Stewart later appeared as Sean Cleary in the CSI episode "Bad to the Bone", which aired on April 1, 2004. That same year, he also appeared in a commercial for Levi's 501 Original jeans. [7] Stewart also had a recurring role in Criminal Minds as Detective William LaMontagne Jr., SSA Jennifer "JJ" Jareau's boyfriend and later, husband.

Starring television roles

Stewart got his break when he was cast as Brendan Finney in the final season of the NBC series Third Watch . [8] As Finney, he played the son of IAB captain Cathal "CT" Finney.

After Third Watch was cancelled, Stewart started filming a movie entitled Lenexa, 1 Mile (released on DVD as Full Count), alongside William Baldwin, Michael Beach, Jennifer Hall, Timothy Ryan Hensel, Chris Klein, Austin Nichols, Jason Ritter, Michael Rooker, and Paul Wesley. [9] This was also the directing debut of Jason Wiles. [10] After filming wrapped, Stewart began filming a new television series starring Courteney Cox Arquette entitled Dirt, for the FX Network, where he played the character of Holt McLaren. [2] On June 8, 2008, Cox Arquette announced that Dirt had been cancelled. [11] During the 2010–2011 season, he appeared as Joshua in ABC's No Ordinary Family .

In 2017, Stewart starred as Solotov on the second season of the USA Network thriller drama Shooter . [12]

On February 26, 2018, it was announced that Stewart would join as a series regular in the second season of Netflix's The Punisher . [13] Stewart joined alongside cast member Alexa Davalos, who is Stewart's wife in real life.

Feature films

Stewart made his mainstream feature film debut in 2008's Curious Case of Benjamin Button playing the character of Benjamin's crewmate, Pleasant Curtis. Also that year, he appeared in The Haunting of Molly Hartley in the role of Mary Hartley's teacher, Mr. Draper. In 2009, he had his first feature film starring role, in the horror movie The Collector , playing the part of Arkin, a man attempting to rob a house to make enough money to pay off his wife's debts to loan sharks. In 2010, he starred, alongside Jamie-Lynn Sigler in the movie Beneath the Dark , (originally titled Wake) [14] inspired by the novel The Shining . [15] He appeared in Christopher Nolan's final film in his Batman Saga, The Dark Knight Rises as Bane's right-hand man, Barsad. [16] [17] [18] He appeared as the main protagonist in the 2012 webisodes, The Walking Dead: Cold Storage , which are based on the popular television show The Walking Dead . In 2013, Josh finished filming his directorial debut, The Hunted, in which he also stars. Stewart reunited in 2014 with director Christopher Nolan as the voice of CASE in the sci-fi epic Interstellar . The same year Stewart was cast in the Disney film The Finest Hours . [18]

Directorial debut

Stewart's directorial and writing debut was the 2013 film The Hunted . He co-produced the film along with The Collector producers Brett Forbes and Patrick Rizzotti. The found footage film revolves around Jake (Stewart) and Stevie (Ronnie Gene Blevins) who want their own TV show. In an attempt to grab the media's attention, both Jake and Stevie head to the dense, secluded woods in West Virginia, armed with only their bows and a camera, to find the biggest guy they can. However, as the sun sets over the mountains, they soon realise they are not alone in the woods and something supernatural is hunting them instead. The film screened at TIFF [19] and eOne Films have since picked up the North American distribution rights.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

In 2007, Stewart married Deanna Brigidi. They have two children: daughter Ryan Justine (b. 2008) and son River Jacob (b. 2010). They separated in 2014 and divorced in 2016.

On February 27, 2012, Stewart went into cardiac arrest after contracting salmonella. His wife performed CPR for several minutes. Stewart now has an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in his chest. [20] [21]

Stewart married actress Alexa Davalos on May 19, 2019. [22] [23] They starred together on the second season of the Netflix series The Punisher .[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Movie

YearFilmRoleNotes
2006Lenexa, 1 MileT.J. Ketting
2007 The Death and Life of Bobby Z Monk
JekyllTommy
2008 The Haunting of Molly Hartley Mr. Draper
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Pleasant Curtis
2009 The Collector Arkin O'Brien
Law Abiding Citizen Rupert Ames
2010 Beneath the Dark Paul
2011RehabAaron McCreary / Carl
2012 The Dark Knight Rises Barsad
The Collection Arkin O'Brien
2013Event 15Sgt. Oldsman
The Hunted JakeAlso Director
2014 Transcendence Paul
Interstellar CASEVoice
2016 The Finest Hours Tchuda Southerland
Cold MoonNathan Redfield
The Neighbor John
2017 War Machine Capt. Dick North
2018 Insidious: The Last Key Gerald Rainier
Malicious Adam Pierce
DiscarnateCasey Blackburn
2019 The Mustang Dan
Back Fork WaylonAlso Director
2020 Tenet Male VoiceVoice
TBALifelineSteven ThomasPost-Production
TBAThe CollectedArkin O'BrienIn Development

Television

YearFilmRoleNotes
2000 Dawson's Creek ExtraEpisode: "To Green, With Love"
2003Then Came JonesBill JenkinsPilot
CSI Sean ClearyEpisode: "Bad to the Bone
2004–2005 Third Watch Officer Brendan Finney Main role
2007–2008 Dirt Holt McLaren
2007–2020 & 2022–2023 Criminal Minds Det. William LaMontagne Jr. Recurring role
2008 Raising the Bar Dan DentonEpisode: "Hang Time"
ER DanielEpisode: "Under Pressure"
2009 CSI: Miami Colin AstorEpisode: "Smoke Gets in Your CSI's"
Southland Vid HolmesEpisode: "Unknown Trouble"
The Mentalist Harlan McAdooEpisode: "The Scarlett Letter"
2010 Ghost Whisperer Robert WhartonEpisode: "Living Nightmare"
2010–2011 No Ordinary Family JoshuaRecurring role
2012 Grimm BillEpisode: "The Bottle Imp"
The Walking Dead: Cold Storage ChaseMain role
2017–2018 Shooter Solotov
2019 The Punisher John Pilgrim
2021 The Rookie Graham PorterEpisode: "Lockdown"

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