Josh Brolin
Acting
1968-02-12 · 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
TheatersDune: Part Three
2026 · Movie
TheatersWhalefall
2026 · Movie
TheatersThe Dog Stars
2026 · Movie
Horse Power
2026 · Movie
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 · Movie
The American Revolution
2025 · Series
The Running Man
2025 · Movie
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford
2025 · Series
Weapons
2025 · Movie
Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation
2025 · Movie
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Movie
Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross
2024 · Movie
Brothers
2024 · Movie
Dune: Part Two
2024 · Movie
N-Men: The Untold Story
2023 · Movie
Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear
2023 · Movie
George & Tammy
2022 · Series
Outer Range
2022 · Series
Dune
2021 · Movie
Flag Day
2021 · Movie
What If...?
2021 · Series
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · Series
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
2020 · Movie
Russo Bros. Pizza Film School
2020 · Series
Reunited Apart
2020 · Series
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
The Tony Alva Story
2019 · Movie
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Movie
Once Upon a Deadpool
2018 · Movie
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · Movie
Deadpool 2
2018 · Movie
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Movie
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
2018 · Movie
Only the Brave
2017 · Movie
Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
2016 · Movie
Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross
2016 · Movie
Ride with Norman Reedus
2016 · Series
Hail, Caesar!
2016 · Movie
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
2016 · Movie
Sicario
2015 · Movie
Everest
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Chryskylodon Blues
2015 · Movie
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015 · Movie
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
Inherent Vice
2014 · Movie
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · Movie
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
Labor Day
2013 · Movie
Oldboy
2013 · Movie
Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau
2013 · Movie
Gangster Squad
2013 · Movie
Radioman
2012 · Movie
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
2012 · Series
Untamed Americas
2012 · Series
Men in Black 3
2012 · Movie
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Movie
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
2011 · Movie
Blackout
2011 · Series
True Grit
2010 · Movie
Conan
2010 · Series
The Women of SNL
2010 · Movie
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010 · Movie
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
2010 · Movie
The Tillman Story
2010 · Movie
Jonah Hex
2010 · Movie
The People Speak
2009 · Movie
Women in Trouble
2009 · Movie
30 for 30
2009 · Series
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
2009 · Series
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
2009 · Movie
Milk
2008 · Movie
W.
2008 · Movie
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
2008 · Movie
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008 · Movie
Stand Up to Cancer
2008 · Series
No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
2008 · Movie
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
2008 · Movie
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Movie
American Gangster
2007 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
In the Valley of Elah
2007 · Movie
Chelsea Lately
2007 · Series
Planet Terror
2007 · Movie
Grindhouse
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The Dead Girl
2006 · Movie
Into the Blue
2005 · Movie
Diving Deeper 'Into the Blue'
2005 · Movie
Into the West
2005 · Series
Melinda and Melinda
2004 · Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Milwaukee, Minnesota
2003 · Movie
Mister Sterling
2003 · Series
Coastlines
2002 · Movie
Lorraine
2001 · Series
Slow Burn
2000 · Movie
Hollow Man
2000 · Movie
Picnic
2000 · Movie
All the Rage
1999 · Movie
Best Laid Plans
1999 · Movie
The Mod Squad
1999 · Movie
My Brother's War
1997 · Movie
Mimic
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Nightwatch
1997 · Movie
Gang in Blue
1996 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Flirting with Disaster
1996 · Movie
Bed of Roses
1996 · Movie
The Outer Limits
1995 · Series
The Road Killers
1994 · Movie
Winnetka Road
1994 · Series
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
The Young Riders
1989 · Series
Finish Line
1989 · Movie
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
Private Eye
1987 · Series
21 Jump Street
1987 · Series
Prison for Children
1987 · Movie
Thrashin'
1986 · Movie
The Goonies
1985 · Movie
The Making Of The Goonies
1985 · Movie
Highway to Heaven
1984 · Series
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Sicario: Capos
Movie
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man
Movie
Mister
Movie