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My Take
I have a soft spot for actors who climb the long ladder, and Hartley is the textbook case. Daytime soap work gets dismissed as a factory floor, but grinding out episodes on Passions and The Young and the Restless built him a craftsman's reliability that flashier peers lack. His Oliver Queen on Smallville proved he could carry genre charisma years before superhero television was fashionable. What interests me most now is his quiet pivot toward directing and writing, the move of someone who studied the machine while standing inside it. I would bet on his second act behind the camera being underrated.
Overview
Justin Scott Hartley (born January 29, 1977) is an American actor, television producer, and director. He has played Fox Crane on the NBC daytime soap opera Passions (2002–2006), Oliver Queen on the WB/CW television series Smallville (2006–2011), and Adam Newman on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2014–2016) which earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Justin Hartley
- Name (Japanese)
- ジャスティン・ハートリー
- Reading
- じゃすてぃん・はーとりー
- Born
- January 29, 1977 (age 49)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Snake
- Origin
- Knoxville, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / film director / writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Carl Sandburg High School
- University
- University of Illinois Chicago
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.