Josh Lee Holloway Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Josh Holloway was born on July 20, 1969 in San Jose, California, USA as Josh Lee Holloway. He is an actor and producer, known for Lost (2004), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) and Sabotage (2014). He has been married to Yessica Kumala since October 1, 2004. They have two children.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor: Action, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Chemistry, Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Movies
Sabotage, Battle of the Year: The Dream Team, Paranoia, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Five, Stay Cool, Whisper, Doctor Benny, Mi Amigo, Sabretooth, Moving August, Cold Heart
TV Shows
Lost, Intelligence, Good Girls Don't
Star Sign
Cancer
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Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
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Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
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"When Lost (2004) took off, part of me thought, 'Do I cut and run?' I still like to look around, but respectfully and with no intentions. 'Married, not buried', I always say. If I were single?... Damn, I'd have one girl doing my laundry, one shaving me, one bringing me a cocktail and another one coming out of my tent all hung over".
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"I was booking jobs once, maybe twice a year." - On how unlucky he was when he first moved to L.A. to become an actor.
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Fact
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Son, Hunter Lee Holloway, was born early 2014.
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Daughter, Java Kumala Holloway, born April 9, 2009.
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Has earned his real estate license. He said that prior to Lost (2004), he had considered quitting acting; he earned his license to have something to fall back on.
Was offered the role of "Gambit" in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) but turned it down, saying the role was too close to his Lost (2004) character.
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He is of Dutch and Scottish heritage.
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He has been a movie-buff since the age of 3. His favorite film is The Shining (1980).
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At around 4:30 A.M. 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. They were shaken but unharmed. An arrest was later made in the robbery.
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Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [2005]
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While he says it looks "cool", he admits to hating the long hair he has to wear as "Sawyer" on Lost (2004).
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He's the second of four brothers.
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His first job was picking up dead chickens at a farm.
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Grew up in Free Home, Georgia.
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After going out of his way to lessen his Southern accent to get a wider variety of work, he had to pick it back up to play the shady "confidence man" Sawyer on the hit show Lost (2004).
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Had a successful career as a model until he got bitten by the acting bug and relocated to Los Angeles.
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Although born in California, his family moved to Georgia when he was a baby, and he still considers himself a "Blue Ridge Mountain boy."