Josh Radnor

At 49 years old, Josh Radnor has this physical status:

Joshua Thomas Radnor (born July 29, 1974) is an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and performer.

He is best known for his role on Emmy Award-winning CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

He made his writing and directorial debut with the 2010 comedy drama film HappyThankyoumoreplease, for which he received the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Liberal Arts, his second film, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, was written, directed, and starred in.

In 2014, Radnor played Isaac in the Broadway play Disgraced, which received a Tony Award for Best Play nomination.

He appeared as Dr. Brussels in the film version.

In the musical series Rise, Jedediah Foster on PBS American Civil War drama series Mercy Street and as Lou Mazzuchelli.

Early life and education

Radnor was born in Columbus, Ohio, to a Jewish family, the son of Carol Radnor (née Hirsch), a high school guidance counselor, and Alan Radnor, a medical malpractice lawyer. Melanie Radnor Silverman and Joanna Radnor Vilensky are two sisters in Radnor.

He grew up in Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, and was raised in Conservative Judaism. He attended the Orthodox Jewish Day School at Columbus, Ohio, before moving to Bexley High School and then Kenyon College, where his school's theater department awarded him with the Paul Newman Award and spent a semester (Spring 1995) training at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut. In 1996, he graduated from Kenyon with a Bachelor of Arts in drama. In 1999, Radnor earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from New York University's graduate acting program at the Tisch School of the Arts. In 1997, Radnor completed an Israel experience course in Tzfat with Livn U'Lehibanot.

Personal life

"I do Transcendental Meditation, Meditation," Radnor wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2008, and part of the reason I chose my house was because it would be a great place to meditate.

Radnor is a huge Cloud Cult enthusiast. In 2016, he co-produced The Seeker, a boy band. "What's true for me about a lot of music, but particularly so with Cloud Cult's, is that it ignites the emotion that's already present in you and calls it out." If this film does so, I'll sleep well at night."

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Career

Radnor was cast as the lead in The WB series Off Centre. However, the role was re-cast with Eddie Kaye Thomas before the first episode aired. In 2002, he made his Broadway debut in the stage version of The Graduate, succeeding Jason Biggs, opposite Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone. In 2004, Radnor starred in The Paris Letter alongside his future How I Met Your Mother co-star, Neil Patrick Harris. From 2005 to 2014, Radnor starred in How I Met Your Mother, his biggest role to date.

In July 2008, he starred opposite Jennifer Westfeldt in the premiere of the play Finks, written by Joe Gilford and directed by Charlie Stratton for New York Stage and Film. Radnor made his directorial debut with the film Happythankyoumoreplease, where he was both the writer and star of the 2010 comedy-drama. His second directorial effort, Liberal Arts, starring himself and Elizabeth Olsen, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2012. Radnor appeared in the Broadway production of Disgraced, which opened October 23, 2014 at the Lyceum Theatre. He is set to direct the sci-fi thriller film The Leaves. Radnor is currently starring in the Amazon Prime series, Hunters, as Lonny Flash, and on Netflix's Centaurworld, as Durpleton.

In October 2016, Radnor also confirmed he is in a band, Radnor and Lee, with Australian musician Ben Lee. Radnor and Lee had known each other for "twelve or thirteen years after meeting on the set of How I Met Your Mother" eventually writing songs together. Their debut album, Radnor & Lee was released on November 10, 2017, "receiving widespread praise across the board, and cementing the duo as an accomplished pair of artists," stated Rolling Stone. On February 19, 2020, Spin announced Radnor and Lee's sophomore album, Golden State, out on Flower Moon Records, and premiered the first single "Outside In." American Songwriter later premiered the video for the album's 2nd single, "Simple Harmony." Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the album's release date was pushed back to June 2020.

Radnor's debut solo EP, One More Then I'll Let You Go, was released on April 16, 2021 on Flower Moon Records. Rolling Stone premiered the first single, "The High Road," March 10, 2021 calling it a "gently lilting ballad about the breakdown of a friendship on which he sings... which features deep textures of piano, acoustic guitar, organ, and snapping fingers." The EP's 2nd single, "You Feel New," premiered on March 31, 2021 with features in Rolling Stone, NPR, American Songwriter and Paste Magazine.

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