Josh Hartnett(I)
- Actor
- Producer
Joshua Daniel Hartnett was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Wendy Anne
(Kronstedt) and Daniel Thomas Hartnett, a building manager. His father
is of Irish and German descent, and his mother is of Swedish and
Norwegian ancestry. Hartnett graduated from South High School in
Minneapolis in June of 1996, then attended SUNY Purchase in New York.
By April of 1997, he was offered the role of Michael Fitzgerald in the
short-lived American television series
Fitz (1997). Josh started off
doing small plays and national commercials, but broke into the
big-screen movie business with his starring roles in
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998),
The Faculty (1998), and
Pearl Harbor (2001).
