Joshua Jackson

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Summary

Joshua Jackson is a Canadian-American actor and producer known for Dawson’s Creek, Fringe, The Affair, Dr. Death, Little Fires Everywhere, and film work including One Week, which he also executive produced. His public commentary has included support for broader diversity in screen casting, including the view that productions can no longer be built around six white leads, and he has discussed the racial politics of When They See Us and the United States’ medical risks for black women in connection with his family’s childbirth experience. His screen career has also included projects involving deaf representation and racial injustice. These are repeated liberal and representation-aware signals, but he has not built a dominant activist or identity-politics public persona.