Josh Holloway

Josh Holloway
Born	Joshua Lee Holloway July 20, 1969 (1969-07-20) (age 40) San Jose, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present
Spouse(s)	Yessica Kumala (2004–present)

Joshua Lee Holloway (born July 20, 1969) is an American actor and former model. He is best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on the American television show Lost.

Early life

Holloway was born to Scottish parents in the California region now known as Silicon Valley. His family moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia when he was two. He is the second of four brothers. In addition to his immediate family, Josh has a large extended family that includes Baptist preacher Dr. Dale Holloway and author and WWII POW Carl Holloway.^{[citation needed]} He is also the great-grandson of "Lula" Holloway who wrote a book sometime in the 20th century about the Holloway family. Holloway attended Marie Archer Teasley middle school and Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. He developed an interest in movies at a very young age. He studied at the University of Georgia for a year, but left to pursue a career as a model.^[1]

Career

Holloway's ambition for acting led him to Los Angeles, where he landed a role in the comedy Doctor Benny. He followed up with lead roles in the movies Mi amigo, Moving August and Cold Heart. Following these roles, he gained recognition for his lead role in the Sci-Fi Channel movie Sabretooth with David Keith and John Rhys-Davies. He also made appearances in Good Girls Don't episode "Addicted to love", NCIS episode "My other left foot",The Lyon's Den episode "Separation Anxiety",Walker, Texas Ranger episode "Medieval Crimes", CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Assume Nothing", and Angel episode "City of" . Holloway appeared in the Aerosmith video for the song "Cryin'" as a thief who tries to steal Alicia Silverstone's purse from a diner. In the video, she catches him and beats him up. Holloway also appears in English songwriter/singer Billie Myers' 1998 music video "Tell Me". He is seen as a patron sitting at the bar in a burlesque club and then as Myer's playboy in a S&M fantasy.

Holloway is best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford in the hit television series Lost. The show propelled Holloway to celebrity status, but left him with little time to leverage his fame with other roles. According to USA Today, he took himself out of consideration for a role in a Brad Pitt Western due to the demands of his filming schedule.^[2] Nevertheless, he found time to star in the thriller Whisper and he also ventured into the world of video games in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. In the game, he plays the role of a Brotherhood of Nod intelligence officer named Ajay whose primary role is to assist players by supplying information that is crucial to upcoming battles. In May 2007, 20th Century Fox approached Holloway for the second time and offered him the role of Gambit in X-Men 4. He had been the main contender for the same role in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand but took himself out of the running due to his busy schedule on Lost. Shortly thereafter, producers scrapped plans to feature the character of Gambit in the third X-Men film.

In 2005, People Magazine named Holloway one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World."^[3] In January 2006, In Touch Weekly named Holloway the "hottest hunk" on television^[4]. In the same month, Holloway was voted the seventeenth sexiest guy worldwide by British readers of OK! magazine. In the same year, he was voted the second Sexiest Star in Hollywood by US Weekly^[5]. Also, in March 2007 Holloway was selected as the new face for Davidoff's "Cool Water" fragrance worldwide.^[6] In Spring 2008, Holloway was selected as the first male spokesperson for Magnum Ice Cream of Turkey. Previous Magnum spokespersons include Eva Longoria Parker and Elizabeth Hurley. In the same year he made the top ten list of TV Guide's Sexiest Stars.^[7]

In the summer of 2008, Holloway joined the cast of Stay Cool, a comedy by the Polish Brothers. He co-stars with Winona Ryder, Chevy Chase, Sean Astin, Mark Polish, Jon Cryer and Hilary Duff.

Personal life

At the end of shooting the Lost pilot in Oahu, Hawaii, Holloway proposed to his long time girlfriend, Yessica Kumala, a native of Jakarta, Indonesia.^[8] The couple married on October 1, 2004.^[8] Holloway's interests include boating, sailing, snowboarding, martial arts, motocross and playing the guitar. On a Channel 4 trailer that aired in the UK, he stated "I do enjoy my beer," and noted that the greatest invention of all time was "distilled alcohol", while his Lost contemporaries selected "pen and paper", "the wheel", and "the guitar". While shooting in Oahu, on April 9th, 2009, Holloway and Kumala welcomed their first child, a girl named Java Kumala Holloway.^[9]

Filmography

Advertising

References

External links

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• Josh Holloway at the Internet Movie Database
• Josh Holloway at TV.com
• Sawyer in Lost Josh Holloway photos