Josh Holloway

He was born Joshua Lee "Josh" Holloway on July 20, 1969 in San Jose, California now known as Silicon Valley. He is the second of four boys and of Dutch and Scottish heritage. From California, the family moved in a rural northern Georgia trailer park 75 miles outside Atlanta when he was two. He completed his early education at Marie Tesley middle school and Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. Josh has since developed an interest in movies at a very young age. Josh attended University of Georgia, but only after a year, he dropped out due to financial reasons. He instead began a career in modeling, which gave him the opportunity to travel throughout North America and Europe. He had been successful in modeling until he got bitten by the acting bug which led him to Los Angeles.
In 1993, Josh appeared as a purse snatcher in the Aerosmith music video for "Cryin'" and in English songwriter/singer Billie Myers’s 1998 music video “Tell Me”. Year passed, he got a role in the comedy Doctor Benny followed up with lead roles in the movies Mi Amigo, Moving August, and Cold Heart. Following these roles, he gained recognition for his lead role in the Sci-Fi Channel movie Sabretooth with David Keith and John Rhys-Davies. He also made appearances in Good Girls Don't episode, "Addicted to love"; NCIS episode, "My other left foot"; The Lyon's Den episode, "Separation Anxiety"; Walker, Texas Ranger episode, "Medieval Crimes"; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, episode "Assume Nothing"; and Angel episode, “City Of..”.
While finding his stride professionally, Josh kept a development company in Georgia and a French-Vietnamese restaurant in Los Angeles. At one point, Holloway almost gave up on his dream in exchange for a more financially viable career in real estate. But days after receiving his license as a real estate agent, he landed the part of James "Sawyer" Ford on the J.J. Abrams sci-fi drama “Lost” which propelled Holloway to celebrity status. He got a Saturn Award for “ Best Actor on Television” for his role on Lost and was then added to the cast of “Mission: Impossble-Ghost Protocol”.
It may have taken Josh nearly a decade before being recognized onscreen, but his hard work and perseverance has surely paid off. Being part of the popular ABC ensemble show raised Holloway's status from virtual anonymity to television stardom. When he stopped shooting the pilot of Lost in Hawaii, he proposed to his girlfriend, Yessica Kumala. They later married on October 1, 2004. On April 9, 2009, they had their first child, Java Kumala.