Born in San Jose, California

July 20, 1969

Holloway was born in the California region that would later become known as Silicon Valley, and his family moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia when he was two. He has one sister and three brothers; he's the second boy. In addition to his immediate family, Josh has a large extended family that includes Baptist preacher Dr. Dale Holloway and author/WWII POW Carl Holloway. He also is the great-grandson of "Lula" Holloway who wrote a book sometime in the 20th century about the Holloway family. Holloway attended Free Home Elementary and Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. He developed an interest for movies at a very young age. He studied at the University of Georgia but quit after only one year to become a male fashion model.

Moving August

July 1, 1999

Holloway played the role of Loren Carol in Moving August, an American comedy genre film.

Cold Heart

Feburary 10, 2001

A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the surface: she runs a thriving business and is happily married to Phil (Jeff Fahey), a psychiatrist. But a faint air of discontent has begun to creep into her relationship, and when Phil arranges for Linda to hire Sean (Josh Holloway), one of his patients, as an assistant, she finds herself seriously tempted for the first time. Linda impulsively sleeps with Sean one night, but the next day decides she made a mistake and tries to break off her affair. Sean, however, is not willing to give her up so easily, and his attraction to her soon becomes a dangerous obsession.

Sabretooth

November 16, 2002

Holloway gained recognition for his lead role in the Sci-Fi Channel movie Sabretooth with David Keith and John Rhys-Davies.

Lost

September 22, 2004 - Now

Holloway is best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford in the hit television series Lost. The show propelled Holloway to celebrity status, but left him with little time to leverage his fame with other roles.

Sawyer is portrayed as a conniving, overly sarcastic flirt who keeps stashes of washed ashore items. His flashbacks typically depict a more sensitive side to him.

Married Yessica Kumala

October 1, 2004 - Now

At the end of shooting "Lost" pilot in Oahu, Holloway proposed to his long time girlfriend, Yessica Kumala, who's from Jakarta, Indonesia. The couple married on October 1, 2004, shortly after "Lost" premiered with phenomenal ratings on ABC network. He's been quoted as calling his wife "The Love of My Life."

Robbed at Gunpoint

October 13, 2005

At around 4:30am on Wednesday, October 13th 2005, Holloway and his wife were robbed at gunpoint in their home in Oahu. The robber took cash and credit cards as well as stealing Holloway's Mercedes-Benz that was later dumped not far from his home in Hawaii Kai, which is about 12 miles east of Honolulu. They were shaken but unharmed. An arrest was later made in the robbery.

Voted the 'Hottest Hunk'

January 1, 2006

In January 2006, Josh was voted the 'hottest hunk' on television by the magazine In Touch and was ranked 17th in a poll for "Sexiest Guy Worldwide" by OK!

Doctor Benny

September 26, 2006

Holloway's ambition for acting led him to Los Angeles, where he landed a role in the comedy Doctor Benny. Ben Lewis (Timothy Dowling), groomed to be a doctor from childhood, spends his days inspecting the most intimate part of the female anatomy, but for some reason has no idea how to deal with women on any sort of social level. He's even gone so far to join a support group for adult virgin men, but this type of reinforcement still can't make him a hit with the ladies. When he seeks the help of a sex guru named Pheb (Josh Holloway), who actually teaches a private class to help inept men learn how to please the opposite sex, Ben's luck changes drastically. He begins to take advantage of his patients (with their consent) and quickly sheds the derisive slang labels of "lork" and "sooser." For all of his newly learned sexual prowess, Ben is still a good person at heart and when he's given a resident assistant named Becky (Jennifer Jostyn), the young man realizes that true love is more important than a string of sexual conquests.

New Face for Davidoff's "Cool Water" Fragrance

March 1, 2007

March 2007 Holloway was selected as the new face for Davidoff's "Cool Water" fragrance worldwide

Whisper

November 27, 2007

Convicted felon Max Truemont (played by Josh Holloway) is hired to execute a kidnapping of the son of one of the richest women in the state. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (played by Sarah Wayne Callies), Max joins two other strangers who were also hired by the same absent mastermind behind the kidnapping. After the successful abduction of the eight-year-old boy, David (played by Blake Woodruff), the group await ransom instructions in a secluded hideout. However, as they begin to become suspicious of each other, Max realizes the boy is not as innocent as he seemed.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

March 27, 2008

Holloway ventured into the world of video games in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. In the game, he plays the role of a Brotherhood of Nod intelligence officer named Ajay whose primary role is to assist players by supplying information that is crucial to upcoming battles.