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Joshua Burge is an American film actor and musician. A Michigan native who currently resides in Los Angeles. Burge has appeared in The Revenant opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, 20th Century Women opposite Greta Gerwig, and Burden opposite Garrett Hedlund, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Relaxer, Joshua’s third collaboration with filmmaker Joel Potrykus, premiered to great reviews at SXSW. This collaboration follows Ape (2012) and Buzzard (2014), the latter of which also made its world premiere at SXSW and was named one of Indiewire’s top films of the year.

Early life
Burge was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan attended Grand Valley State University where he studied film. While at university, Burge began performing as a musician under the stage name Chance Jones later forming a band with the same name.

Career
While preforming as Chance Jones film maker Joel Potrykus captured the band and produced short music videos of Burge’s live performances. This led to Burge’s first acting role in Joel Potrykus short film Coyote (2010). Burge continued to collaborate with Potrykus on feature films Ape, Buzzard and Relaxer. Burge won best actor award at the 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival. He made is major studio debut in The Revenant directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2015.

He currently resides in Los Angeles.