Josh Brolin

Actor

Born February 12, 1968 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography

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Dune: Part Three

Gurney Halleck

Coming soon

Whalefall

Mitt Gardiner

Coming soon

The Dog Stars

Bangley

Fleshing Out the Hollow Man

Self

Mister

Horse Power

Narrator

Breakdown: 1975

Self

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Mons. Jefferson Wicks

The American Revolution

George Washington (voice)

The Running Man

Dan Killian

Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford

Narrator (voice)

Weapons

Archer

Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation

Self

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Self (archive footage)

Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross

Narrator

Brothers

Moke Munger

Dune: Part Two

Gurney Halleck

N-Men: The Untold Story

John O’Shei

Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear

Narrator

George & Tammy

Outer Range

Royal Abbott

Dune

Gurney Halleck

Flag Day

Uncle Beck

What If...?

Thanos (voice)

Marvel Studios Legends

Thanos (archive footage) (uncredited)

Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King

Self

Russo Bros. Pizza Film School

Reunited Apart

Self

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Self

The Tony Alva Story

Self

Avengers: Endgame

Thanos

Once Upon a Deadpool

Cable

Sicario: Day of the Soldado

Matt Graver

Deadpool 2

Cable

Avengers: Infinity War

Thanos

The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter

Buck Ferguson

Only the Brave

Eric Marsh

Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross

Narrator (voice)

Ride with Norman Reedus

Self

Hail, Caesar!

Eddie Mannix

Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario

(archive footage)

Sicario

Matt Graver

Everest

Beck Weathers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

Chryskylodon Blues

Self

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Thanos (uncredited)

Hot Ones

Self

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self

Inherent Vice

Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Dwight

Guardians of the Galaxy

Thanos (uncredited)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

Labor Day

Frank

Oldboy

Joe Doucett

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

Self - Narrator

Gangster Squad

John O'Mara

Radioman

Self

Mankind: The Story of All of Us

Self - Narrator

Untamed Americas

Narrator

Men in Black 3

Young Agent K

Woody Allen: A Documentary

Self

Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'

Self

Blackout

Terrance Danfield

True Grit

Tom Chaney

Conan

Self - Guest

The Women of SNL

Various (archive footage)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Roy

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Bretton James

The Tillman Story

Narrator (voice)

Jonah Hex

The People Speak

Self

Women in Trouble

Nick Chapel

30 for 30

Narrator (voice)

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

Bar Guy (archive footage)

Milk

Dan White

George W. Bush

Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'

Self

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Self

Stand Up to Cancer

Self

No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes

Self

No Country for Old Men

Llewelyn Moss

American Gangster

Detective Trupo

To Each His Own Cinema

(segment "World cinema")

In the Valley of Elah

Chief Buchwald

Chelsea Lately

Self (archive footage)

Planet Terror

Dr. William Block

Grindhouse

Block (segment "Planet Terror")

The Graham Norton Show

Self - Guest

The Dead Girl

Tarlow

Into the Blue

Bates

Into the West

Jedediah Smith

Melinda and Melinda

Greg

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self - Guest

Milwaukee, Minnesota

Gary

Mister Sterling

Bill Sterling

Coastlines

Dave Lockhart

Lorraine

Self

Slow Burn

Duster

Hollow Man

Matthew Kensington

Picnic

Hal Carter

All the Rage

Tennel

Best Laid Plans

Bryce

The Mod Squad

Billy Waites

My Brother's War

Pete

Mimic

Josh

The View

Self

Nightwatch

James Gallman

Gang in Blue

Keith DeBruler

The Daily Show

Self - Guest

Flirting with Disaster

Tony Kent

Bed of Roses

Danny

The Outer Limits

Jack Pierce

The Road Killers

Tom

Winnetka Road

Jack Passion

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Late Show with David Letterman

Self - Guest

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Young Riders

Wild Bill Hickok

Finish Line

Glenn Shrevelow

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Self - Guest

Private Eye

Johnny Betts

21 Jump Street

Taylor Rolator

Prison for Children

Boise

Thrashin'

Corey Webster

The Goonies

Brand

The Making Of The Goonies

Self

Highway to Heaven

Entertainment Tonight

Self

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

The Oscars

Self