Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor. A son of actor James Brolin, he gained fame in his youth for his role in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). After years of decline, Brolin had a resurgence with his starring role in the crime film No Country for Old Men (2007). Brolin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for portraying Dan White in the biopic Milk (2008). Brolin's career progressed with roles in W. (2008), True Grit (2010), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Men in Black 3 (2012), Oldboy (2013), Inherent Vice (2014), Everest (2015), and Hail, Caesar! (2016). He gained wider recognition for playing Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), including in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as Cable in Deadpool 2 (2018). Brolin also collaborated with filmmaker Denis Villeneuve in the action thriller Sicario (2015) and in the science fiction films Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), in which he played Gurney Halleck.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2016
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2015
The Daily Show
2013
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2022
Late Show with David Letterman
2008
Conan
2012
Saturday Night Live
2008
The View
2003
The Graham Norton Show
2018
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2010
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2022

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
137
Directing
2
Producing
7
Editing
1
Crew
1
2026
The Dog Stars
as Bangley
2026
Whalefall
as Mitt Gardiner · unreleased
2026
Dune: Part Three
as Gurney Halleck · unreleased
2026
Horse Power
as Narrator
2026
Avengers Endgame: Encore
as Thanos
2026
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2025
Weapons
as Archer
2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Mons. Jefferson Wicks
2025
The Running Man
as Dan Killian
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation
as Self
2025
Breakdown: 1975
as Self
2025
Countdown: Canelo vs. Crawford
as Narrator (voice)
2025
The American Revolution
as George Washington (voice)
2024
Brothers
as Moke Munger
2024
Dune: Part Two
as Gurney Halleck
2024
Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross
as Narrator
2024
Lorraine
as Self
2023
N-Men: The Untold Story
as John O’Shei
2023
Ground Swell: The Other Side of Fear
as Narrator
2022
Hot Ones
as Self
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2022
Outer Range
as Royal Abbott
2021
Dune
as Gurney Halleck
2021
Flag Day
as Uncle Beck
2021
What If...?
as Thanos (voice)
2021
Marvel Studios Legends
as Thanos (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
Ride with Norman Reedus
as Self
2020
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
as Self
2020
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
Russo Bros. Pizza Film School
2019
Avengers: Endgame
as Thanos
2019
The Tony Alva Story
as Self
2018
Avengers: Infinity War
as Thanos
2018
The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter
as Buck Ferguson
2018
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
as Matt Graver
2018
Deadpool 2
as Cable
2018
Once Upon a Deadpool
as Cable
2018
The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest
2018
Stand Up to Cancer
as Self
2017
Only the Brave
as Eric Marsh
2016
Hail, Caesar!
as Eddie Mannix
2016
Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story
as Narrator (voice)
2016
Unchained: The Untold Story of Freestyle Motocross
as Narrator (voice)
2016
Battle Zone: The Origins of Sicario
as (archive footage)
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2016
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
2015
Chryskylodon Blues
as Self
2015
Everest
as Beck Weathers
2015
Sicario
as Matt Graver
2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Thanos (uncredited)
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Dwight
2014
Inherent Vice
as Lt. Det. Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen
2014
Guardians of the Galaxy
as Thanos (uncredited)
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2013
Gangster Squad
as John O'Mara
2013
Oldboy
as Joe Doucett
2013
Labor Day
as Frank
2013
Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau
as Self - Narrator
2013
30 for 30
as Narrator (voice)
2013
Chelsea Lately
as Self (archive footage)
2013
The Daily Show
as Self - Guest
2012
Men in Black 3
as Young Agent K
2012
Radioman
as Self
2012
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
as Self - Narrator
2012
Conan
as Self - Guest
2012
Untamed Americas
as Narrator
2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2011
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
Back Into the Tunnels: The Making of 'Mimic'
as Self
2011
Blackout
as Terrance Danfield
2010
Jonah Hex
as Jonah Hex
2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
as Bretton James
2010
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
as Roy
2010
The Tillman Story
as Narrator (voice)
2010
True Grit
as Tom Chaney
2010
The Women of SNL
as Various (archive footage)
2010
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2009
Women in Trouble
as Nick Chapel
2009
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
as Bar Guy (archive footage)
2009
The People Speak
as Self
2009
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2008
Milk
as Dan White
2008
W.
as George W. Bush
2008
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
as Self
2008
Behind the Scenes of 'No Country for Old Men': An Incredibly Unauthorized Documentary
as Self
2008
The Making of 'No Country for Old Men'
as Self - Llewelyn Moss
2008
Fallen Empire: Making 'American Gangster'
as Self
2008
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
2008
The Oscars
as Self
2008
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2008
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
2007
Planet Terror
as Dr. William Block
2007
American Gangster
as Detective Trupo
2007
In the Valley of Elah
as Chief Buchwald
2007
No Country for Old Men
as Llewelyn Moss
2007
Grindhouse
as Block (segment "Planet Terror")
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
as (segment "World cinema")
2007
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2006
The Dead Girl
as Tarlow
2005
Into the Blue
as Bates
2005
Diving Deeper 'Into the Blue'
as Self
2005
Into the West
as Jedediah Smith
2004
Melinda and Melinda
as Greg
2003
Milwaukee, Minnesota
as Gary
2003
The View
as Self
2003
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2003
Mister Sterling
as Bill Sterling
2002
Coastlines
as Dave Lockhart
2000
It's the Rage
as Tennel
2000
Hollow Man
as Matthew Kensington
2000
Slow Burn
as Duster
2000
Picnic
as Hal Carter
1999
The Mod Squad
as Billy Waites
1999
Best Laid Plans
as Bryce
1997
Nightwatch
as James
1997
Mimic
as Josh
1997
My Brother's War
as Pete
1996
Flirting with Disaster
as Tony Kent
1996
Bed of Roses
as Danny
1996
Gang in Blue
as Keith DeBruler
1995
The Outer Limits
as Jack Pierce
1994
The Road Killers
as Tom
1994
Winnetka Road
as Jack Passion
1989
Finish Line
as Glenn Shrevelow
1989
The Young Riders
as Wild Bill Hickok
1987
Prison for Children
as Boise
1987
21 Jump Street
as Taylor Rolator
1987
Private Eye
as Johnny Betts
1986
Thrashin'
as Corey Webster
1986
Highway to Heaven
1985
The Goonies
as Brand
1985
The Making Of The Goonies
as Self
Fleshing Out the Hollow Man
as Self