Early life

Jackson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to John Carter Jackson and his wife, Fiona. His mother is a casting director. Jackson's father is from Texas; and his mother is a native of Ballyfermot, Dublin, Ireland, having immigrated to North America in the late 1960s. He has a younger sister, Aisleagh (born 1983). He was raised Catholic.

Jackson grew up in California until the age of 8. He moved to Vancouver with his mother and younger sister. He attended Ideal Mini School and later switched to Kitsilano Secondary School. The school is particularly well known for the numerous television and film productions which have been filmed on location. Most recently, Juno, Anything for Love and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" were shot at Kitsilano. The school also counts a number of former alumni who went on to careers in film and television, notably Ryan Reynolds and Joshua Jackson. In an interview with The New York Times, Jackson said he was kicked out of high school once because of The Jon Stewart Show: " played, at least where I grew up, at 1:30 in the morning, so I would stay up at night to watch Jon Stewart, but then I'd be too tired—or too lazy—to go to school in the morning. So I'd just take the first couple of classes off, 'cause I wanted to be fresh when I got there." He claims that the first time was because of "attitude" problems and that he "wasn't in the school spirit".

Career

Jackson started acting in a small role in the film Crooked Hearts in 1991. The next year, he played the role of Charlie in a musical version of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. At this point, with the help of the play's casting director Laura Kennedy, he joined the William Morris Agency. Soon after, he landed the role of Charlie (#96) in The Mighty Ducks series, playing a young and aspiring hockey player.

Joshua Jackson went on to appear as Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek, which ran on the WB network from 1998-2003, and also starred James Van Der Beek, Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes. While the show was on hiatus, he appeared in several movies including Cruel Intentions (a New York yuppie adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses that also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe), The Skulls, The Safety of Objects, The Laramie Project and a short cameo in the remake of Ocean's Eleven where he appears as himself in a poker scene with Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Holly Marie Combs, among others. In 2000, he also guest-starred in Season 12 of The Simpsons, voicing the character of Jesse Grass, a "hunky environmentalist" and love interest for Lisa Simpson in the episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger".

Shortly after Dawson's Creek ended in 2003, Jackson played the lead role in films alongside Dennis Hopper (Americano), Harvey Keitel (Shadows in the Sun), and Donald Sutherland (Aurora Borealis). In 2005, Jackson moved to the UK and made his stage debut on the London West End with Patrick Stewart in David Mamet's two-man play, A Life in the Theatre. The play was a critical and popular success, and ran from February to April of that year. Jackson said that he would consider returning to the stage, to try his hand on Broadway. His next film role was in Bobby, directed by Emilio Estevez, Jackson's co-star from The Mighty Ducks. He played a lead role in Shutter, a US remake of a Thai horror film of the same name. He starred and acted as executive producer in the Canadian independent film One Week, which opened on March 6, 2009.

Jackson played Peter Bishop in the science-fiction series Fringe, created by JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. The series appears on the Fox TV network and was the second-highest rated new show of the 2008-09 season after CBS's The Mentalist. BuddyTV ranked him #9 on its "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2010" list, #19 in 2011 and #14 in 2012.

Jackson was nominated for Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the film One Week. He won the award on April 12, 2010. He held and hosted Pacey-Con in 2010, directly across the street from the San Diego Comic-Con, sporting a bowling shirt and giving out fan fiction he wrote himself to those waiting in the Comic-Con entrance line. Footage of the event was recorded for a video, entitled 'Pacey-Con', which he was filming for Will Ferrell's Funny or Die celebrity humor website. In 2013 Jackson appeared in the IFC film Inescapable with Marisa Tomei and Alexander Siddig. Jackson wrote the first story from the comic book trilogy Beyond the Fringe, titled "Peter and the Machine". He has just finished the second season of the Showtime series The Affair.

Personal life

Jackson was in a relationship with Dawson's Creek co-star Katie Holmes during the first two seasons of the show's run. Holmes claims Jackson was her first love.

Jackson has been in a relationship with German actress Diane Kruger since 2006; the couple shares residences in Paris, Los Angeles and Vancouver. He owns his childhood home in Topanga, California. He previously lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, where Dawson's Creek was filmed; and in New York, where Fringe filmed its first season. In 2009, he moved back to Vancouver for the shooting of the four following seasons before the show aired its last episode on January 18, 2013.

Jackson is a fan of the ice hockey team Vancouver Canucks. He was arrested on November 9, 2002 at a Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey game in Raleigh, North Carolina after a quarrel with a security guard. He was charged with assault, affray and being intoxicated and disruptive, having 0.14 blood alcohol content. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the assault charge, and Jackson agreed to attend an alcohol education program and perform 24 hours of community service in order to have the remaining charge dropped.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Crooked Hearts	Tom (11 years)
1992	The Mighty Ducks	Charlie Conway
1993	Digger	Billy
1994	D2: The Mighty Ducks	Charlie Conway
1994	Andre	Mark Baker
1995	Magic in the Water	Joshua Black
1996	D3: The Mighty Ducks	Charlie Conway
1996	Robin of Locksley	John Prince, Jr.
1997	Ronnie and Julie	Ronnie
1997	Scream 2	Film Class Guy #1
1998	The Battery	Michael Papperman	Short film
1998	Apt Pupil	Joey
1998	Urban Legend	Damon Brooks
1999	Cruel Intentions	Blaine Tuttle
1999	Muppets from Space	Young Man at Beach	Cameo (uncredited)
2000	The Skulls	Lucas 'Luke' McNamara
2000	Gossip	Beau Edson
2001	The Safety of Objects	Paul Gold
2001	Ocean's Eleven	Josh	Cameo
2002	The Laramie Project	Matt Galloway
2002	Lone Star State of Mind	Earl Crest	Alternative title: Cowboys and Idiots
2003	I Love Your Work	John
2005	Cursed	Jake Taylor
2005	Racing Stripes	Trenton's Pride	Voice Role
2005	Americano	Chris McKinley
2005	Aurora Borealis	Duncan Shorter
2005	The Shadow Dancer	Jeremy Taylor	Alternative title: Shadows in the Sun
2006	Bobby	Wade Buckley
2007	Battle in Seattle	Randall
2008	Shutter	Benjamin Shaw
2008	Gashole	Joshua Jackson (himself)	Gives commentary for documentary
2008	One Week	Ben Tyler
2012	Lay the Favorite	Jeremy
2012	Inescapable	Paul

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Payoff	Young Mac	TV-Movie
1996	Champs	Matt Mazzilli	Episode: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Episode: For Art's Sake
1996	Robin of Locksley	Prince John, Jr.	TV-Movie
1997	Ronnie & Julie	Ronnie Monroe	TV-Movie
1997	On the Edge of Innocence	Sammy	TV-Movie
1997	The Outer Limits	Devon Taylor	Episode: Music of the Spheres
1998-2003	Dawson's Creek	Pacey Witter	Lead Role; 124 episodes
2000	The Simpsons	Jesse Grass	Episode: Lisa the Tree Hugger
2001	Cubix	Brian	(voice)
2006	Capitol Law	Mark Clayton	Unsold TV pilot
2008-2013	Fringe	Peter Bishop	Main role (95 episodes)
2014-present	The Affair	Cole Lockhart	22 episodes
2016	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Purvis	Guest (1 episode)

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Smart People	Brian	New play by Lydia R. Diamond at Second Stage Theater

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1993	Young Artist Award	Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture	The Mighty Ducks	Nominated
1999	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor	Dawson's Creek	Won
2000	Teen Choice Award	Choice Liar in a Film	The Skulls	Nominated
2000	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor	Dawson's Creek	Won
2000	Young Hollywood Award	Male Superstar of Tomorrow	N/A	Won
2001	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor	Dawson's Creek	Won
2002	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor	Dawson's Creek	Nominated
2003	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actor	Dawson's Creek	Nominated
2005	Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival	Best Actor	Aurora Borealis	Won
2006	Hollywood Film Festival	Best Ensemble of the Year	Bobby	Won
2006	Satellite Award	Best Actor - Motion Picture	Aurora Borealis	Nominated
2007	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Bobby	Nominated
2009	Teen Choice Award	Choice Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi	Fringe	Nominated
2010	Genie Awards	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	One Week	Won
2010	Teen Choice Award	Choice Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi	Fringe	Nominated
2011	Teen Choice Award	Choice Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi	Fringe	Nominated
2012	Teen Choice Award	Choice Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi	Fringe	Nominated
2013	Saturn Awards	Best Actor on Television	Fringe	Nominated
2016	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Premium Cable TV Actor	The Affair	Nominated

Charities

Joshua Jackson supports the following charitable cause: Environment.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]