List of Justin Chatwin performances

Justin Chatwin is a Canadian actor of film and television. After making his film debut in the musical comedy Josie and the Pussycats (2001),^[1] Chatwin guest-starred in several television series and had minor appearances in two unsuccessful films, Taking Lives and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (both 2004). That same year, Newsweek magazine singled him out as an "Actor to watch" based on his work in the three-part miniseries Traffic.^[2]

Chatwin at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

Chatwin had his breakthrough performance as Tom Cruise's rebellious son in the blockbuster War of the Worlds (2005), directed by Steven Spielberg. He followed that up by portraying a teenage drug dealer in The Chumscrubber, a black comedy which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Chatwin later headlined the 2007 supernatural thriller The Invisible, and starred as Goku in Dragonball Evolution (2009), an action-adventure film directed by James Wong based on the Japanese manga Dragon Ball.

Throughout the 2010s, Chatwin has found more success on television, starring as a lovesick car thief on the Showtime dramedy Shameless between 2011 and 2015. After a recurring role in the third season of BBC's Orphan Black, Chatwin played a cartoonist in the CBS murder mystery drama American Gothic (2016). That same year, he portrayed superhero Grant Gordon / The Ghost in "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", the 2016 Christmas Special of the science fiction series Doctor Who. Chatwin has also starred as scientist Erik Wallace in the two season Netflix series Another Life.^[3]

Simultaneously, Chatwin worked on a number of independent films, playing a diverse spectrum of characters in a variety of genres. He portrayed an Italian dancer in Daniel Roby's disco drama Funkytown (2011), a rock star in Jeffrey St. Jules' sci-fi musical Bang Bang Baby (2014), which earned him a Canadian Screen Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor,^[4] a cat-turned-human in Finn Taylor's romantic comedy Unleashed (2016), a modern-day cowboy in Blake Robbins' western The Scent of Rain and Lightning (2017), a rookie detective in the crime thriller The Assassin's Code (2018), and a free-spirited bartender in the coming-of-age dramedy Summer Night (2019) directed by Joseph Cross.

Chatwin's long-time passion for extreme sports, travelling and motorcycles,^[5] led to the documentary series No Good Reason (2020), which follows his journey from Vancouver to Patagonia on motorcycle.

Film

†	Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2001	Josie and the Pussycats	Teenage Fan		[6]
2004	Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2	Zack		[7]
	Taking Lives	Matt Soulsby		[8]
2005	War of the Worlds	Robbie Ferrier		[9]
	The Chumscrubber	Billy Peck		[10]
2007	The Invisible	Nick Powell		[11]
2008	Middle of Nowhere	Ben Pretzler		[12]
2009	Dragonball Evolution	Son Goku		[13]
2011	Brink	Jeremy	Short film	[14]
	Funkytown	Santo "Tino" DeiFiori		[15]
2014	Bang Bang Baby	Bobby Shore	Nominated - Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role	[16]
2015	The Cycle	Robbie	Short film	[17]
	No Stranger Than Love	Rydell Whyte		[18]
2016	Poor Boy	Jackie Clean		[19]
	Urge	Jason Brettner		[20]
	Unleashed	Diego / Ajax		[21]
	One Night	Drew McFarland	aka 1 Night	[22]
2017	CHiPs	Raymond Reed Kurtz Jr.		[23]
	The Scent of Rain and Lightning	Hugh Jay Linder		[24]
	We Don't Belong Here	Tomas	aka The Greens Are Gone	[25]
2018	In the Cloud	Halid "Hale" Begovic		[26]
	The Assassin's Code	Michael Connelly	aka Legacy	[27]
2019	Summer Night	Andy		[28]
2021	Die in a Gunfight	Terrence Uberahl		[29]
2022	The Walk	Bill Coughlin		[30]
2024	Reagan	Jack Reagan		[31]
2025	Sweetness	Ron Hill		[32]
TBA	The Panic †	Herbert Satterlee	Post-production	[33]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2001	Christy, Choices of the Heart	John Spencer	2 episodes	[34]
	Smallville	Teen Jostled by Whitney	Episode: "Pilot"	[35]
	Mysterious Ways	J.T Stanislaw	Episode: "Doctor in the House"	[36]
2002	Just Cause	Shaun Martin	Episode: "Code of Silence"	[37]
	Night Visions	Pete Hartford	Episode: "The Maze/Harmony"	[38]
	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Vinny Rose	Episode: "The News Stand"	[39]
	Glory Days	Barry Bowers	Episode: "Grim Ferrytale"	[40]
	Taken	Clauson	2 episodes	[41]
2003	The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie	Lawrence	TV film	[42]
2004	Prodigy	Dempsey	TV pilot	[43]
	Traffic	Tyler McKay	3 episodes	[44]
2005–2012	Weeds	Josh Wilson	3 episodes	[45]
2006	Lost	Eddie Colburn	Episode: "Further Instructions"	[46]
2011–2015	Shameless	Jimmy Lishman / Steve Wilton	Main role (season 1–3) Guest (season 4) Recurring role (season 5) 40 episodes	[47]
2013	The Listener	Rudy Best	Episode: "Blast from the Past"	[48]
2015	Breed	Cooper Wells	TV pilot	[49]
	Orphan Black	Jason Kellerman	4 episodes	[50]
2016	American Gothic	Cameron Hawthorne	13 episodes	[51]
	Doctor Who	Grant Gordon / The Ghost	Episode: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"	[52]
2017	The Doomsday Project	Chris Wyatt	TV pilot	[53]
2019–2021	Another Life	Erik Wallace	19 episodes	[54]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Ref(s)
2006	Dark Matters	Jeremy Cleary	Rattlestick Playwrights Theater	[55]
2007	The Mistakes Madeline Made	Wilson	Dairy Arts Center	[56]
2009	Red Light Winter	Davis	Dairy Arts Center	[57]

Documentaries

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
2013	Isolated	Himself	Documentary film	[58]
2016	Behind the Storm: The Making of the Scent of Rain and Lightning	Himself	Short documentary film	[59]
2020	No Good Reason	Himself	7 episodes; also executive producer	[60]

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Ref(s)
2011	"Learn to Run"	David Vertesi	The Boyfriend	[61]
2016	"Doin' Wrong with You"	Brad Carter	Hugh Jay Linder	[62]
2019	"Slow Motion"	Hayley Taylor	Love Interest	[63]