Josh Charles to join final season of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

Josh Charles has joined the cast of the upcoming sixth and final season of Hulu’s Emmy-winning drama The Handmaid’s Tale as a series regular, PEOPLE reports. It’s unclear what his role will be in the dystopian drama.

Josh Charles has joined “The Handmaid’s Tale”.

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Based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 book, the series has won 15 Emmys and features Elisabeth Moss as a handmaid, a woman the government awards to an infertile husband and wife to carry and give birth to their children. The haunting show also stars Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley, and Madeline Brewer.

Season 5 of the series ran from September through early November 2022. Season 6 episodes featuring Charles are expected in 2025.

Charles has appeared in movies, such as Dead Poets Society, the original Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, and Four Brothers, and on TV’s Sports Night and The Good Wife, just to name a few, in a career of 30-plus years. He and Moss costarred in this year’s thriller The Veil on FX on Hulu.

He was twice nominated for an Emmy for best supporting actor on The Good Wife, where he costarred with Julianna Margulies, Archie Panjabi, and Christine Baranski. He portrayed Will Gardner in the first five seasons of the CBS series and made appearances in the final two.

One of his latest projects was actually for Taylor Swift‘s “Fortnight” music video, in which he and Ethan Hawke, one of his costars from one of his first movies, Dead Poets Society, donned lab coats to play scientists examining Swift in the video.