Meet Josh Hamilton, who plays Jennifer Garner’s late husband in Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend

KUALA LUMPUR, 25 JULY 2026 —

Peacock’s latest television series, The Five-Star Weekend, debuted on July 9 and is already the most popular show on the streaming platform, according to Flixpatrol. The series is an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 eponymous novel, starring Jennifer Garner as Hollis Shaw, a food blogger struggling to cope with the loss of her husband.

The show revolves around a getaway weekend to Nantucket, an island in Massachusetts, with four close friends – played by Chloë Sevigny, D’Arcy Carden, Gemma Chan and Regina Hall. Actor Josh Hamilton stars as Hollis’ late husband, Matthew, who appears in flashbacks throughout the eight-part series. As the show progresses, it is revealed that Hollis and Matthew’s married life had not been as perfect as she portrayed online. So who is actor Josh Hamilton?

Here’s everything you need to know. What are Josh Hamilton’s credits? Josh Hamilton was born on June 9, 1969, to director and actor Dan Hamilton and actress Sandra Kingsbury. The couple later divorced, and both remarried. Following in his parents’ footsteps, Hamilton studied theatre at Brown University. In 1977, Hamilton made his on-screen debut in A Good Dissonance Like a Man, a biographical film on American composer and businessman Charles Ives.

The film was directed by Hamilton’s stepfather, Theodor Timreck. Hamilton’s mother, Kingsbury, also starred in the film. Since his debut, Hamilton has gone on to act in over 100 on-screen projects. He received the Outstanding Performer in a Children’s Special award at the 1992 Daytime Emmys for his performance in CBS Schoolbreak Special. The 57-year-old has also appeared in TV shows such as American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, 13 Reasons Why and more.

Aside from on-screen projects, Hamilton is also an accomplished stage actor and is credited with roles in productions such as The Real Thing (2015), Dead Accounts (2013) and The Coast of Utopia (2007). What else does Josh Hamilton do besides acting? Despite his impressive résumé as an actor, Hamilton’s Instagram profile has little to do with his Hollywood career and more to do with photography.

The actor calls himself a “shutterbug” in his bio and has over 400 snaps – mostly portraits – featuring familiar faces including Mark Ruffalo, Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried and Cynthia Nixon. Who is Josh Hamilton married to? There is little information available about Hamilton’s private life. He married producer Lily Thorne in 2005, and the pair share one child.

Although the two have kept their family life private, Hamilton gushed about Thorne on Instagram last October, sharing a photo of her and actor Billy Crudup, captioned: “Billy Crudup and Lily Thorne – who by some cosmic miracle is my wife.” (AI-assisted rewrite, based on the original source)