Joshua Close / Biography

Joshua Close was born on 31 August 1981 in Oakville, Ontario. He attended Iroquois Ridge High School, where he started acting during his senior year of high school when he joined the advanced drama program and a local theater troupe. He won the starring role in his senior year play "A Willful Act", where he played a 60s playboy. He graduated in 2000.Close later attended "Circle in the Square Theater School" in New York. His first paying job was a dancer for the Boomtang Boys. He landed his first feature film role in January 2001, Viktor Bokov in the Kathryn Bigelow-directed film K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). The film starred Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson as Russian submarine captains during the height of the cold war. Close played Ford's first aid officer and decoder on board.