Joshua Leonard

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Joshua Granville Leonard (born June 17, 1975) is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for his role in The Blair Witch Project (1999).

He has appeared in films including Madhouse (2004), The Shaggy Dog (2006), Higher Ground (2011), The Motel Life (2012), Snake and Mongoose (2013).

Early life

Leonard was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Joann, an author, and Robert Leonard, a theater professor at Pennsylvania State University. He was raised in State College, Pennsylvania. Leonard obtained his GED and traveled to Chiapas, Mexico, where he taught at an elementary school and served at an ethnological institute. Leonard later spent time in Seattle and London, where he acquired an interest in photography, before settling in New York City at the age 19. He is Jewish on his mother's side.

Personal life

Leonard revealed his relationship to actress Alison Pill in January 2015. They were married in Los Angeles on May 24, 2015. Leonard and Pill revealed in July 2016 that they were expecting their first child, a girl. Wilder Grace Leonard's daughter was born on November 19, 2016.

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Career

Leonard auditioned for and landed one of the three main roles in The Blair Witch Project in 1997. Despite the fact that he only received a $500 salary, the learning journey was enriching in other ways, especially because it combined acting and photography. At the Sundance Film Festival, the film premiered. Leonard has since appeared in numerous films and television shows as an actor, including HBO's television film Live from Baghdad, Allison Anders' comedy film Things Behind the Sun, Tim Allen's documentary film Men of Honor, Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Larry Fessenden's psychological thriller Bitter Feast.

He appeared in the Independent Spirit Award-winning film Humpday in 2009, for which he was named Best Actor at the Gijón International Film Festival. Leonard has appeared on HBO's acclaimed HBO series Hung and the Showtime series United States of Tara. The Youth in Us, Leonard's short film that was on display at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, was directed by Leonard. Beautiful Losers followed after winning the Grand Jury Prize at CineVegas in 2008. He has produced music videos for several well-known artists, including Morcheeba, Harper Simon, Fitz and the Tantrums, as well as teaching Directing and acting at The New York Film Academy, UC Irvine, and Academia Internacional De Cinema in Rio de So Paulo, Brazil. Leonard appeared in Vera Farmiga's debut drama film Higher Ground in 2011, portraying a religious man at odds with his wife (Farmiga). He also co-wrote, produced, and starred in The Lie, a devilish morality tale based on T. C. Boyle's book. Audiences and commentators applauded Mark Webber's role on the project, as well as Jane Adams.

In The Motel Life (2012), Leonard came alongside Dakota Fanning. In the ensuing year, he appeared alongside Carol Kane and Natasha Lyonne in the dark comedy film Clutter and co-starred in Snake and Mongoose. Leonard co-starred in the drama film If I Stay, directed by R. J. Cutler and based on Gayle Forman's book of the same name. Leonard was then starring in A&E's drama-thriller series Bates Motel as James Finnigan, a psychology researcher and a love interest for Norma Louise Bates. He co-starred in the romantic drama film 6 Years, directed by Hannah Fidell, which premiered in South by Southwest. Marisa Tomei and Timothy Olyphant would appear in the Leonard-directed drama "Behold My Heart" in December 2015.

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