The Veil

Josh Charles stars as “Max Peterson,” a well turned out, confident and proud American. The bigger the better, in his opinion. High up within the CIA and leading the task force to prevent a major incident on U.S. soil, Max flies to Paris to work with Malik, his counterpart at the DGSE.

Career Highlights

Josh Charles is an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Critics Choice-nominated film, television and stage actor.In 2023, Charles starred in Prime Video’s limited series The Power opposite Toni Collette and Michel Franco’s Memory opposite Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. He recently wrapped production on Mothers’ Instinct, based on Barbara Abel’s novel Derrière la Haine, co-starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.In 2022, Charles was seen as Daniel Hersl in the HBO limited series We Own This City from executive producers George Pelecanos and David Simon (The Wire). The critically acclaimed series, based on the book of the same name by former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.Charles secured his first feature film role in John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray. The following year, he co-starred as “Knox Overstreet” in the Academy Award®-winning film Dead Poets Society.&nbsp;Other notable film roles include Framing John DeLorean, Norman, The Drowning, Freeheld, I Smile Back, Bird People, S.W.A.T., Four Brothers, Threesome, Pie in the Sky, Things To Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Crossing the Bridge, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead and Seeing Other People.On television, he spent five seasons playing “Will Gardner” on the CBS award-winning drama The Good Wife, for which he received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Prior to The Good Wife, Charles co-starred in the first season of the acclaimed HBO series In Treatment and Aaron Sorkin’s comedy-drama series Sports Night as sports anchor “Dan Rydell.” Other television work includes Away, The Loudest Voice, Masters of Sex, Law and Order: True Crime, Wet Hot American Summer, Drunk History, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Stella, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Inside Amy Schumer.On stage, Charles was most recently seen on Broadway in Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, which earned him a Drama League nomination, and in the world premiere of Annie Baker’s The Antipodes for the Signature Theater. Additional theater credits include the U.S. premiere of Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here at MCC, which received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble, the world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s The Well-Appointed Room for the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Caryl Churchill’s A Number at ACT, the world premiere of Adam Bock’s The Receptionist at MTC, and The Glass Menagerie and A Dance Lesson at the Long Wharf Theater.Charles was born and raised in Baltimore and is an avid sports fan, especially for the Ravens and Orioles. His voice can be heard narrating the NFL Films documentary series A Football Life on the NFL Network.Charles currently resides in New York.

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Max is high up within the CIA and leading the task force to prevent a major incident on U.S. soil.

Josh Charles as Max Peterson in The Veil

Josh Charles as Max Peterson in FX's The Veil

Josh Charles as Max Peterson | The Veil on FX

The Veil

Career Highlights

Elisabeth Moss
as Imogen Salter / Executive Producer

Yumna Marwan
as Adilah El Idrissi

Dali Benssalah
as Malik Amar

Josh Charles as Max Peterson | The Veil on FX

Yumna Marwanas Adilah El Idrissi

Dali Benssalahas Malik Amar

Yumna Marwan
as Adilah El Idrissi

Dali Benssalah
as Malik Amar