Joshua Daniel "Josh" Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor and producer of movies. He first came to attention in 1997 for his role as Michael Fitzgerald in the television crime drama series
Cracker. He made his feature film debut in 1998 in the slasher film
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, followed by teen roles in films such as the sci-fi horror film
The Faculty (1998) and the drama
The Virgin Suicides (1999). Hartnett had starring roles in the war film
Pearl Harbor, the drama
O, the war film
Black Hawk Down, the romantic comedy
40 Days and 40 Nights, and other films.