Justin Hartley

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.

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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)

Origin

Knoxville, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / film director / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Snake

High school

Carl Sandburg High School

University

University of Illinois Chicago

• Official sitehttps://justinhartleyonline.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/justinhartley/
• Xhttps://x.com/justinhartley
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin%20Hartley
• 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%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195255

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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