Joel recurred on all five seasons of Amazon’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He portrayed Archie Cleary, best friend, voice of reason, and loyal drinking pal to Joel Maisel (Michael Zegen). One of the most awarded television shows of all-time, it captured best comedy series at the Emmys, Golden Globes, Producers Guild, Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Awards, Peabody Awards and many more. Joel also won a SAG Award for Maisel as part of the Best Television Comedy Ensemble.
In addition to Maisel, Joel is currently recurring on CBS’s C.S.I. Vegas. He plays the quirky but brilliant coroner, Jack Nikolayvich. He also portrayed famed Mercury 7 astronaut Gus Grissom in the ABC mini-series The Astronaut Wives Club. Among a multitude of other guest star work, he’s also had memorable recurring roles on several HBO series, The Newsroom and Getting On. Film credits include the Disney film adaption of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day alongside Steve Carrell, Deliverance Creek, alongside Lauren Ambrose, and most recently indie comedy, Good Egg. He stars as one of the leads of the indie thriller, “Grizzly Night”, coming out later next year.
On this episode of THE COCKTAIL GURU PODCAST, hosts Jonathan & Jeffrey Pogash talk with SAG Award-winning actor Joel Johnstone about his journey from the American heartland to Hollywood and, in the process, realizing the dream of every screen thespian—becoming …