Full Name: Josh J. Brolin
Date of Birth: February 12, 1968
Age: 40
City of Birth: Templeton, California
Height: 5' 11½" (1.82 m)
Hair/eyes: Brown/brown

The Brolin Family Tree
Brother: Jess Brolin. Born Feb. 7, 1972.
Half-sister: Molly Elizabeth Brolin. Born Nov. 28, 1987. Mother, Jan Smithers.
Son: Trevor Mansur Brolin. Born June 26, 1988. Mother, Alice Adair.
Daughter: Eden Brolin. Born 1994. Mother, Alice Adair.
Father: James Brolin. Born July 18, 1940. Divorced from Brolin's mother Jane Cameron Agee. Later married and divorced actress Jan Smithers. Married Barbra Streisand in 1998.
Mother: Jane Brolin. Born Oct. 19, 1939 in Texas. Met James Brolin when she was working as assistant casting director on the TV series "Batman" (ABC). Married in 1967, divorced in 1985. Died at age 55 on Feb. 13, 1995 when she drove her car into a tree.
Step-brother: Jason Emmanuel Gould. Son of Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould; born Dec. 29, 1966; played Streisand's son in The Prince of Tides (1991).
Step-mother: Barbra Streisand. Married father, James Brolin, on July 1, 1998.

Significant Others
• Married Alice Adair in 1998. Had two children - Trevor and Eden Brolin. Divorced 1992.
• Acted in Slow Burn (1998) with Minnie Driver. Announced engagement in April 2001. Announced separation in October 2001.
• Began dating Diane Lane in January 2002. Engaged July 2003. Married August 14, 2004.

Biography

Born in Templeton, California in 1968, Josh Brolin is the son of Jane Cameron Agee, an aspiring actress and native of Corpus Christi, TX, and actor James Brolin. His father divorced Jane in 1984, remarried in 1986, then remarried once again in 1998 to Barbra Streisand. Jane passed away in 1995 after a car crash. From the start, Josh was surrounded by show business, although he hated the unstable nature of the business and was adamantly determined to not follow in his father's footsteps. However, after performing in a high school production of "A Streetcar Named Desire," Brolin became hooked and decided to pursue an acting career, anyway. He made his feature debut as the bench-pressing, older brother of Mikey Walsh (Sean Astin) leading a band of misfit kids on an adventure to find mysterious treasure in Richard Donner's The Goonies (1985). Josh took a break from feature films to focus on television after starring in the skateboarding drama Thrasin' (1986).

Josh found steady work on the small screen, beginning with a co-starring role on the short-lived "Private Eye" (NBC, 1987-88) as Johnny Betts, a streetwise 1950's rock and roller, who forms an unlikely partnership with a gritty private detective (Michael Woods). He followed "Private Eye" by making his television movie debut as a detainee at a Boys Industrial School in "Prison for Children" (CBS, 1987). Continuing a string of TV movies, he played a student athlete pushed too hard by his former track star father in a sports drama about the tragic effects of steroids in "Finish Line" (1989), a project that gave Josh the opportunity to star opposite his real-life father.

He raised his profile even higher as one of the stars of "The Young Riders" (ABC, 1989-1992), a revisionist take on the Pony Express and Old West. While on hiatus from the series, he co-founded the Reflections Festival in 1990 with Anthony Zerbe, who played the grizzled stationmaster Teaspoon Hunter on series. Stationed at the GeVa Theatre in Rochester, NY, the Reflections Festival gave Josh the chance to both act and direct, an affiliation he maintained through 1995. After hanging up his spurs as young Jimmy 'Wild Bill' Hickock, Josh returned to regular series work as a cop torn between two women in the short-lived primetime serial "Winnetka Road" (NBC, 1993-94). He soon placed television on the back burner to take advantage of feature opportunities that began to surface, though he did return some years later for the adaptation of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Picnic" (CBS, 2000).

Enjoying a memorable moment licking Patricia Arquette's armpit while playing the bisexual federal agent who wants a child (whew!), Josh took a role in David O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster. (1996). It was a role that whispered promises of stardom that later never materialized. After a small role as a wiseacre lab rat in Guillermo del Toro's Mimic (1997), he reunited with Arquette as a law student who chops off his finger to save his friend (Ewan McGregor) in the thriller Night Watch (1998). Josh acted alongside his father once again in the straight-to-video political thriller "My Brother's War" (1998). Turning up as Claire Danes' druggie ex-boyfriend in a spectacular flop, The Mod Squad did nothing for his career. He fared somewhat better as a self-centered prep in Best Laid Plans (1999). Costarring as Kevin Bacon's disapproving scientist rival, Josh took a role in The Hollow Man, Paul Verhoeven's dismal take on The Invisible Man. Also in 2000, Josh made his Broadway debut in Sam Shepard's "True West," alternating the lead roles of antagonistic siblings Lee and Austin with co-star Elias Koteas.

Back on television, Josh played a poetry-spewing video store clerk and aspiring filmmaker who develops a potentially life-threatening crush on a crazy blonde woman (Anna Paquin) in James D. Stern's darkly comic anti-gun violence missive "It's the Rage" (Cinemax, 2000). He returned to regular series work playing the titular role in "Mister Sterling" (NBC, 2002-03), a short-lived one-hour drama about the son of a well-liked former governor who fills his father's vacated Senate seat despite being reluctant to take on the task. The show received moderately good reviews, but it failed to attract high ratings and was canceled after only nine episodes.

Meanwhile, Josh received the kind of recognition most would rather not have – in 2004, he was arrested for suspicion of domestic battery against his wife, actress Diane Lane, after the police were called to their home. No charges were ever filed, but Josh and Diane suffered the ignominy of being publicly scrutinized for what he called a "misconstrued, awful thing that was the best lesson we ever had." They remain a steady couple today.

After a small role as a WASPy dentist in Wood Allen's mild dramedy Melinda and Melinda (2005), Josh was a rival treasure hunter trying to out-hustle a group of scuba divers going after a shipwreck rumored to contain millions in gold in the action thriller Into the Blue (2005). He made a huge impression in the sweeping six-part miniseries "Into the West" (TNT, 2005), playing legendary mountain man Jedediah Smith, then retreated to the confines of independent film with supporting performances in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2005) and Coastlines (2006). After playing the lowlife pimp of a troubled young runaway (Brittany Murphy) in The Dead Girl (2006), Josh appeared as the psychotic husband of an emergency room anesthesiologist (Marley Shelton) in the Robert Rodriquez's Planet Terror (2007), part of the Tarantino-Rodriquez Grindhouse, a throwback to the days of bloody, sex-fueled, low-rent double features that played in seedy 42nd Street theaters in New York City.

His appearance in Planet Terror marked the beginning of a career rebirth that saw Josh finally landing roles worthy of his untapped talents. A small, but memorable role in the somber war drama, In the Valley of Elah" (2007) dovetailed into playing a corrupt detective hell-bent on compromising the integrity of an idealistic counterpart (Russell Crowe) trying to bring down an inner city crime boss (Denzel Washington) in Ridley Scott's crime thriller, American Gangster (2007). Saving his best for last, Brolin delivered a kind of performance of a lifetime in No Country for Old Men (2007), a role he landed only after his agent pestered filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen to give him an audition. After finally getting the part, Brolin crashed his motorcycle into a car. Fortunately wearing a helmet, Josh only broke his collarbone and was able to show up on the set two weeks later ready to play Llewelyn Moss, a down-and-out Vietnam vetern who finds a briefcase containing $2 million in the desert near the remains of a bloody drug deal gone bad. Taking the satchel of cash only makes Moss' life worse, forcing him to elude all manner of pursuers, including a deadly assassin (Javier Bardem). No Country for Old Men earned considerable praise for the Coen Brothers, but Josh – for the first time in his long career – received previously unheard-of Oscar buzz.