Josh Brolin was born February 12, in Santa Monica, California, but grew up in Templeton, a town in San Luis Obispo County hidden between Paso Robles and Morro Bay. His father was TV and film actor James Brolin , his mother was an aspiring actress.

Their son had little interest in the family business. So I got up on stage and created this middle-aged, balding man and just started riffing on it. I thought it was easy. Still only a teenager, Brolin toughed out auditions.

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His first professional job was playing Brand Walsh, big brother to a gang of pre-teen treasure hunters in the Steven Spielberg production The Goonies. The movie was a huge hit in the summer of but it would be uphill for Brolin the next 20 years.

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Go figure out how to do this. Get experience, and then go see if you can do it. In , Brolin was in the running for the lead in the Fox TV series 21 Jump Street.

After the last audition, he went back to the apartment of the other finalist to wait for word; Johnny Depp got the part. Brolin instead took a sidekick role in a retro detective series for NBC called Private Eye but the show lasted only seven episodes. He had better luck with an adventure series loosely based on the Pony Express called The Young Riders.

Running on ABC for 67 episodes beginning in , Brolin found a friend and mentor in his co-star, veteran actor Anthony Zerbe.

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For the next four years, Brolin programmed plays and performed in a variety of them. He got the chance to work with Woody Allen in Melinda and Melinda and landed the lead in another TV series; Mister Sterling , a modern take on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington that lasted nine episodes on NBC in Brolin was nominally cast as the bad guy in Hollywood fare like The Mod Squad and Into the Blue , or in the sidekick role, as with Mimic and Hollow Man Brolin credited his career resurgence to the sale of his Paso Robles ranch in And suddenly things started to happen.

Within two days, Brolin had the job. Two days after that, he shattered his collarbone in a motorcycle accident on Highland Avenue in L.

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Afraid he would lose the part, Brolin kept news of the accident from the Coens and reported to work injured. With No County For Old Men , four acclaimed movies featuring Brolin opened in He also played a malevolent doc turned zombie in Grindhouse , a small town police chief in In the Valley of Elah and a treacherous narc in American Gangster.

The latter earned Brolin his first Academy Award nomination. Also in , Brolin debuted as a writer-director-producer with X , a gritty minute short starring his teenage daughter Eden. You cannot be an emotional trader. If you are, you will lose. So I sit there and do the opposite of what I would do if I were acting, looking at it objectively and having total discipline. Which is how I get into a part, and then I let it go.

United Federation of Character Actors. Interesting story behind Mr.

Brolin I never knew. Then, as a waiter on the central coast of CA, I served him and his sons, frequently. He is a very cool dude, always very polite, kind, and humble. Glad for his success, hopefully he gets a ranch in Paso again for retirement.

I would say go for Old Creek Road man.

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