Joshua Leonard

Acting

Joshua Leonard

Born

1975-06-17 (51)

Place of birth

Houston, Texas, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Joshua Leonard is an American film and television writer, director and actor, best known for his debut role in the feature indie film "The Blair Witch Project" and many other supporting roles in film and television.

Known for

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
8.0

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Criminal Minds poster
8.3

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

Criminal Minds

2005

Bones poster
8.2

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Bones

2005

CSI: Miami poster
7.7

The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

CSI: Miami

2002

CSI: NY poster
7.3

Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

CSI: NY

2004

Bates Motel poster
8.0

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

Bates Motel

2013

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Torn Hearts poster
5.7

A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing the friends to confront the lengths they will go to in pursuit of their dreams.

Torn Hearts

2022

Four Good Days poster
6.8

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

Four Good Days

2021

Bliss poster
5.5

A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.

Bliss

2021

Fully Realized Humans poster
5.2

Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.

Fully Realized Humans

2020

The Same Storm poster
8.0

Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Same Storm

2022

The Drop poster
4.2

A seemingly happy married couple confronts a test of their marriage when one of them drops a baby while at a destination wedding at a tropical island.

The Drop

2022

Trauma, or Monsters All poster
8.0

An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within.

Trauma, or Monsters All

2026

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music poster
6.0

A music driven tribute to the late indie filmmaker Lynn Shelton.

Her Effortless Brilliance: A Celebration of Lynn Shelton Through Film and Music

2020

The Blair Witch Documentary poster
6.1

Documentary about the 1999 film. Featured on the special features for The Blair Witch Project Second Sight Blu-ray release.

The Blair Witch Documentary

2024

Two Eyes poster
6.8

In late 19th century Montana, an artist seeking inspiration explores the landscape with his Native American guide, and finds his conceptions of himself and of the world around him challenged. In 1970s Barstow, California, a questioning youth's mundane existence is given a shot of adrenaline by the arrival of a new exchange student who envelops them within her own lust for life. In present-day Wyoming, a trans teenager works through his self-destructive feelings with his perceptive, non-binary therapist.

Two Eyes

2020

2010s · 23 titles

Unsane poster
6.3

A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

Unsane

2018

Shark Night 3D poster
5.1

A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.

Shark Night 3D

2011

If I Stay poster
7.3

Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock singer/guitarist. However, a car wreck changes everything in an instant, and now Mia's life hangs in the balance. Suspended between life and death, Mia faces a choice that will decide her future.

If I Stay

2014

The Town that Dreaded Sundown poster
5.9

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

The Town that Dreaded Sundown

2014

Higher Ground poster
5.9

Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark World, a tight-knit spiritual community is thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith, love, and trust - in human relationships as well as in God.

Higher Ground

2011

Wildlike poster
6.2

Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.

Wildlike

2015

The Motel Life poster
5.6

A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

The Motel Life

2013

Bitter Feast poster
5.3

A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

Bitter Feast

2010

Teenage Cocktail poster
5.4

Feeling confined by their small town and overbearing parents, Annie and Jules hatch a scheme of running away. The only issue is, they need the money to get there. Jules suggests the couple try webcam modeling. Although she’s nervous at first, Annie can’t argue when the money starts rolling in. But as the girls soon find out, consequences can blindside you. Sometimes violently.

Teenage Cocktail

2016

Bold Native poster
7.1

Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does.

Bold Native

2010

6 Years poster
5.4

A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.

6 Years

2015

Depraved poster
5.6

A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.

Depraved

2019

The Freebie poster
5.0

Annie and Darren have been married for seven years, and they love each other as much as the day they were wed; they're affectionate, have fun together, and enjoy games such as crossword puzzle races. They would seem to have a perfect relationship, except for one thing -- they haven't had sex in ages, and seem to have lost all interest in making love with one another, no matter how they try to put each other in the mood. Hoping to put some adventure back into their lives, Annie and Darren come up with an unusual idea -- they each get one night in which they're free to find someone and have sex with them, scot-free. But is this going to help their relationship, or is it just going to turn a small problem into a big problem?

The Freebie

2010

No artwork available
NR

Michael has been estranged from his family for a long time. When he shows up at his brother John's house unexpectedly, Rayanne, his new sister-in-law, decides to let him in. But things are not always as they seem, and people may not be who they say there are.

Wedding Dress

2015

Sunset Stories poster
5.0

A dark comedy about two people's chase around Los Angeles to find a missing cooler.

Sunset Stories

2012

The Ever After poster
5.7

Ava and Thomas live--to outside eyes--the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas' job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.

The Ever After

2015

Lost Holiday poster
4.2

Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.

Lost Holiday

2019

Down Dog poster
4.3

A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A satirical look at LA's yoga culture.

Down Dog

2015

Clutter poster
6.0

Charlie Bradford, an aspiring filmmaker in his 30s, is doing the best he can to distance himself from the chaos of his childhood home. But his eccentric mother Linda, a compulsive hoarder who suffers from depression punctuated by spells of manic consumption, has a tendency to keep the people and things she loves close at hand. Charlie's younger sisters still live at home with Linda: Lisa, the older of the two has a history of petty theft and works as a home healthcare aid, and Penny, who is trying to overcome her agonizing shyness is starting a a new career as a home stager in a beleaguered real estate market.

Clutter

2013

Among Ravens poster
4.8

The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.

Among Ravens

2014

The Lie poster
5.5

A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.

The Lie

2011

Treatment poster
7.5

All his life, Leonard has dreamed of being a famous filmmaker, but he's better at making excuses than making art. A chance encounter with a wasted A-list movie star could be his lucky break. All he has to do is come up with $15,000 to join the actor at a luxury rehab facility, where their friendship can blossom into wealth and glory. Leonard checks into treatment under false pretences, but soon discovers that addiction comes in many forms.

Treatment

2011

Woman in Deep poster
4.7

A woman calls a suicide prevention hotline and is put on hold.

Woman in Deep

2016

2000s · 23 titles

Men of Honor poster
7.5

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.

Men of Honor

2000

Prom Night poster
5.1

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.

Prom Night

2008

Scorched poster
5.5

Three mischievous employees of a bank in a small deserted town all make plans to rob it at the same time, however none of them knows about the others.

Scorched

2003

The Shaggy Dog poster
4.9

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most important job - being a great dad.

The Shaggy Dog

2006

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 poster
4.4

A group of college students decide to take part in a witch hunt tour inspired by a horror movie. As the adventure goes awry, the students realise that an evil being has followed them home.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

2000

Hatchet poster
5.8

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

Hatchet

2006

Deuces Wild poster
5.5

In 1950s New York City, a bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn between the Deuces and the vicious Vipers.

Deuces Wild

2002

Madhouse poster
5.7

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Madhouse

2004

Quid Pro Quo poster
5.4

A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.

Quid Pro Quo

2008

Live from Baghdad poster
6.7

A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.

Live from Baghdad

2002

Things Behind the Sun poster
6.0

A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.

Things Behind the Sun

2001

20 Years After poster
3.1

In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!

20 Years After

2008

Two Days poster
5.6

Paul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. But not just of show business-of life. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments and the events leading up to them; it's the role of a lifetime. Often ironic and darkly comical, this is the story of a man searching for meaning and hope. This is the story of two days in the life of Paul Miller. The only question is, will they be his last?

Two Days

2003

Cubbyhouse poster
3.8

A mom of three buys a cheap, old house. However, the backyard cubby-house is cursed with pure evil that took the previous owner's two kids and her kids are next.

Cubbyhouse

2001

Mission poster
9.0

Marvin, a young aspiring writer from New York, moves to California to write a novel. He ends up rooming with a chaotic, bohemian musician named Jay. Marvin finds himself inexorably drawn into the vibrant youth culture of San Francisco's Mission District as both Jay and himself watch their worlds disintegrate. They discover that each has a lot to learn from the other. Mission is a coming-of-age story casting a spotlight on a place and time, moments before artistic aspiring types yielded the Mission to the dotcom entrepreneurs.

Mission

2001

Shooting Livien poster
6.1

A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred with reality as Livien struggles with his identity crisis. At the peak of his insanity Livien decides to take his dementia to the furthest reaches...

Shooting Livien

2005

Humpday poster
5.3

Imagine your life is somewhat complete with a house, job, and wife but then your best friend from college comes knocking at your door at 2 AM. During a pot-induced hedonistic party, a plan is hatched between the two friends to create an Art Film of “two really straight men having sex.” If they only knew how much this would affect all of their lives.

Humpday

2009

The Burkittsville 7 poster
5.3

A film archivist revisits the story of Rustin Parr, a hermit thought to have murdered seven children while under the possession of the Blair Witch.

The Burkittsville 7

2000

LArceny poster
6.0

A young man from New Jersey comes to Los Angeles to visit his slightly crazy cousin and gets mistaken for a successful New York artist.

LArceny

2004

Sacrifice poster
4.9

A convicted bank robber breaks free as he is being transported to prison after learning that his daughter has been killed by a serial killer. Determined to find her killer, he joins with a female cop who is working the case. He quickly discovers that his daughter had recently had an abortion, an action common to all of the murdered women. Meanwhile the FBI agent that he escaped from is hot on his trail.

Sacrifice

2000

Country Remedy poster
5.9

In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of the small community he is forced to deal with the recent loss of his wife while reconnecting with his 9 year old son, and learning a different pace of life.

Country Remedy

2007

Expecting Love poster
5.2

A successful Los Angeles lawyer discovers that a short-term affair could have long-term consequences when a woman he had a brief affair with claims that she's currently pregnant with his unborn child.

Expecting Love

2008

In the Weeds poster
6.9

It's Martha's first night as a waitress in an upscale New York restaurant. Veteran Chloe shows her the ropes and introduces her to the lives of the restaurant staff. Adam, a hopeful playwright, suffers for his art while dealing with a very indecisive (ex-?)girlfriend. Marlon is a cocky young actor, certain that his big break is just around the corner. When the restaurant's obnoxious owner, Simon, brings a special client in for dinner, pressures mount until an explosion seems inevitable.

In the Weeds

2000

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
8.0

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999

Criminal Minds poster
8.3

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most experienced agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU who returns to help the team solve new cases.

Criminal Minds

2005

Bones poster
8.2

Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.

Bones

2005

CSI: Miami poster
7.7

The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

CSI: Miami

2002

CSI: NY poster
7.3

Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

CSI: NY

2004

Bates Motel poster
8.0

A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series begins after the death of Norma's husband, when she purchases a motel located in a coastal Oregon town so she and Norman can start a new life.

Bates Motel

2013

Numb3rs poster
7.0

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

Numb3rs

2005

Scorpion poster
8.2

Eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits comprise the last line of defense against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s new think tank, O’Brien’s “Scorpion” team includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviorist who can read anyone; Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru.

Scorpion

2014

MacGyver poster
7.3

20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.

MacGyver

2016

The Outer Limits poster
7.7

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

The Outer Limits

1995

Touch poster
6.6

Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.

Touch

2012

Celebrity Ghost Stories poster
7.3

Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009

StartUp poster
7.2

A desperate banker needs to conceal stolen money. A Haitian-American gang lord wants to go legit. A Cuban-American hacker has an idea that will revolutionize the very future of money itself. Forced to work together, they unwittingly create their version of the American dream - organized crime 2.0.

StartUp

2016

Hung poster
6.5

Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-down house catches fire. Looking to take on a second job, Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes.

Hung

2009

Togetherness poster
6.8

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

Togetherness

2015

Togetherness poster
6.8

Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

Togetherness

2015

The Finder poster
7.1

Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.

The Finder

2012

Heartbeat poster
6.3

Based on the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, this unique character-driven medical drama follows Dr. Alex Panttiere, an outspoken world-renowned heart-transplant surgeon and one of the few women in her field. Stubborn and fearless, Alex always operates on her own terms. Watch as she revels in a racy personal life, manages the daily demands of skeptical faculty and dutiful interns, and pushes the boundaries of medical science to impressive new heights.

Heartbeat

2016

Four Corners of Fear poster
NR

The cast and crew of The Blair Witch Project attempt to produce a belated follow-up with the involvement of a Hollywood superstar.

Four Corners of Fear

2013

Behind the camera

Fully Realized Humans poster
5.2

Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.

Fully Realized Humans

2020

Fully Realized Humans poster
5.2

Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.

Fully Realized Humans

2020

Fully Realized Humans poster
5.2

Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.

Fully Realized Humans

2020

Dark Was the Night poster
5.6

In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory in order to move on with their lives.

Dark Was the Night

2018

Dark Was the Night poster
5.6

In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory in order to move on with their lives.

Dark Was the Night

2018

The Drop poster
4.2

A seemingly happy married couple confronts a test of their marriage when one of them drops a baby while at a destination wedding at a tropical island.

The Drop

2022

The Drop poster
4.2

A seemingly happy married couple confronts a test of their marriage when one of them drops a baby while at a destination wedding at a tropical island.

The Drop

2022

The Lie poster
5.5

A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.

The Lie

2011

The Lie poster
5.5

A man's life is altered unexpectedly after telling a lie to get out of work.

The Lie

2011

The Youth In Us poster
6.2

A young couple confronts a painful future by looking to the past.

The Youth In Us

2005

Beautiful Losers poster
6.5

This documentary follows the lives and careers of a collective group of do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world.

Beautiful Losers

2008