Justin Bartha

Justin Bartha is one of those actors who quietly holds blockbusters together while flashier co-stars get all the magazine covers. His Riley Poole in the National Treasure films was genuinely charming — the nerdy sidekick who actually felt like a real friend rather than comic relief — and he made those films significantly more watchable than they had any right to be. Then he pivoted to The Hangover trilogy as the perpetually-absent Doug, a role that required almost no screen time yet somehow anchored the whole franchise's premise. What I actually respect is his stage work and his turn in The Good Fight, where he showed a quieter, sharper dramatic range. Fort Lauderdale kid, NYU Tisch trained, clearly capable of more than Hollywood has consistently asked of him.

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Name (English)

Justin Bartha

Name (Japanese)

ジャスティン・バーサ

Reading

じゃすてぃん・ばーさ

Born

July 21, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / stage actor / film actor / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

High school

West Bloomfield High School

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

• Official sitehttp://www.justinbartha.altervista.org
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Bartha
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110379

Tags

• Florida
• actor
• television actor
• stage actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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