Joshua Daniel “Josh” Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and aspiring producer. He first came to audiences’ attention in 1997 as “Michael Fitzgerald” in the television series Cracker. That same year, he received an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Male Performance. A relative encouraged him to audition for a stage production of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn and to his surprise, he won the part of Huckleberry Finn. After finishing high school, a move to New York to attend the prestigious Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at SUNY Purchase did not go as well as he had hoped for, and a year later at age 19, Hartnett found himself in California.
