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Josh Holloway

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Josh Holloway

Josh Holloway
Character(s) James "Sawyer" Ford
 
Date of Birth July 20, 1969 (age 39)
 
Origin San Jose, California, USA
 
IMDb profile

Josh Holloway plays the role of Sawyer.

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Background

Josh Holloway was born in California. His family moved to Georgia when he was a baby, and he grew up in Free Home, Georgia (to this day, he still considers himself a "Blue Ridge Mountain boy"). He had a successful career as a model until he got bitten by the acting bug and relocated to Los Angeles. He had minor acting parts in shows such as Walker: Texas Ranger, Angel and CSI, and co-starred with Nastassja Kinski and Jeff Fahey in the B-movie thriller Cold Heart, in which he played the role of a married woman's lover/stalker.

However, times were tough, and competition fierce for good roles. He was in serious need of acting work just prior to Lost. He relates the timing of his casting as a fortuitous windfall for him, because it came just when he was about to give up on acting. He had been waiting to get a secure job before proposing to his then-girlfriend Yessica Kumala, to whom he finally proposed on the set of the "Pilot, Part 1", and married on Kauai in October, 2004. (Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide).


Filmography

Television

  • "Lost" .... James 'Sawyer' Ford (82 episodes, 2004-2008)
  • Whisper (2007) .... Max Truemont
  • Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) (VG) .... Ajay - Nod Intelligence Officer
  • Good Girls Don't..." .... Eric (1 episode, 2004)
  • Addicted to Love (2004) TV episode .... Eric
  • Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" .... Sheriff (1 episode, 2004)
  • The Lyon's Den" .... Lana's Toyboy (1 episode, 2003)
  • Separation Anxiety (2003) TV episode .... Lana's Toyboy
  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" .... Kenny Richmond (1 episode, 2003)
  • Assume Nothing (2003) TV episode .... Kenny Richmond

Awards

Main article: Awards



Media appearances

Talk show

Holloway has appeared as a talk show guest in the following:

Source: tv.com

Magazine

Holloway has been featured as the main topic of the following magazine articles:

Miscellaneous

  • August 8, 2004; September 14, 2005; September 30, 2006: Sunset on the Beach (Season 1-3 premieres)


Trivia

  • A movie-buff since the age of 3. His favorite film is "The Shining". [source needed]
  • His first job was picking up dead chickens at a farm.[source needed]
  • Played a purse thief in Aerosmith's "Crying" video; his character was beaten up by Alicia Silverstone.
  • After going out of his way to lessen his Southern accent to get a wider variety of work, returned to it for his auditions for Sawyer, a character that had been written as a native of New York.[source needed]
  • While he says it looks "cool", he admits to hating the long hair he has to wear as Sawyer[source needed]
  • Chosen as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine in 2005 [1].
  • Was featured in a pre-Lost Old Navy Commercial, starring Fran Drescher. His hair was silver-colored.[2]
  • According to Josh Holloway in an interview in Details Magazine, at around 4:30am on Wednesday, October 13, 2005, he and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their home in Oahu. The robber took cash and credit cards as well as stealing Holloway's Mercedes-Benz that was later dumped not far from his home in Hawaii Kai, which is about 12 miles east of Honolulu. The couple was shaken but unharmed. An arrest was later made in connection with the robbery.
  • Was featured in People Magazine's 2006 "Sexiest Man Alive" issue, on page 164.
  • Was offered the Role of Gambit in X-Men: The Last Stand, but turned it down due to similarities to Sawyer.[source needed]
  • Plays a NOD Officer (Ajay) in the computer game Command and Conquer 3 Tiberian Wars. Interestingly, Billy Dee Williams also starred in this game as the GDI Commander.
  • Is the face of aftershave 'Davidoff Cool Water' in Europe and, as of August 2008, in America.

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Present Naveen Andrews (1–4) • Henry Ian Cusick (3–4) • Jeremy Davies (4) • Michael Emerson (3–4) • Matthew Fox (1–4) • Jorge Garcia (1–4) • Josh Holloway (1–4) • Daniel Dae Kim (1–4) • Yunjin Kim (1–4) • Ken Leung (4) • Evangeline Lilly (1–4) • Rebecca Mader (4) • Elizabeth Mitchell (3–4) • Terry O'Quinn (1–4) • Emilie de Ravin (1–4)
Previous Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (2–3) • Maggie Grace (1–2) • Malcolm David Kelley (1–2) • Dominic Monaghan (1–4) • Harold Perrineau (1–2 / 4) • Michelle Rodriguez (2) • Kiele Sanchez (3) • Rodrigo Santoro (3) • Ian Somerhalder (1) • Cynthia Watros (2)
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