After Lindsay Lohan’s Falling For Christmas, Netflix’s newest Christmas movie The Noel Diary is here. Margret H. Huddleston, Stephanie Slack, Ridoyanul Hoq serve as producers on the highly anticipated film directed by Charles Shyer. The Noel Diary is based on Richard Paul Evans' novel of the same name about a man named who returned home after twenty years following a sudden phone call informing him of his mother’s passing. His mother was a hoarder who collected all kinds of things, and in an effort to clear her things from the house he finds a diary by Noel, a woman who stayed with his family while she was pregnant.
He finds the diary just when Rachel shows up looking for information about her biological mother who happens to be the owner of the diary. Rachel and Jake set out on a trip to find her mother, but first he needs to reconcile with his father, whom he hasn’t spoken to in over 30 years.
The Noel Diary features the perfect casting of This Is Us star Justin Hartley, along with Barrett Doss (Iron Fist), James Remar (Black Lightning), and several others. Here are some interesting facts about Justin Hartley.
8 What Role Does Justin Hartley Play In The Noel Diary?
In The Noel Diary, Justin Hartley plays Jacob Turner, a handsome, successful novelist who lives alone with his dog Ava and is estranged from his parents. When he gets a call out of the blue that his mother has passed away, he travels back to his childhood home to clean it out.
7 This Is How Justin Hartley Got Cast For The Noel Diary
The movie’s director Charles Shyer has said that he cast Justin Hartley with a little help from his ex-wife and longtime collaborator, Nancy Meyers. The veteran filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter, “when I was casting The Noel Diary, she read the script and said, ‘You’ve got to see this guy Justin Hartley from This Is Us,” adding “he’s in the movie pretty much 100 percent because of Nancy. Nancy still has that great eye for talent, and that’s what rang the bell for me.”
6 Justin Hartley Has An Interesting Christmas Tradition
In an interview, Justin Hartley admitted that he keeps his Christmas tree up longer than average. “My whole thing is if you come over to my house in July, there might be a Christmas tree up. I don't mind putting them up, but taking them down is a nightmare. It's sad. And it's such a pain. So I just keep it lit up through January and then into the summer", the actor told People Magazine.
5 Who Was Justin Hartley Before Smallville?
Before his debut as Oliver Queen on Smallville, Justin Hartley was already an established actor. He got his break in 2002 on the daytime soap opera Passions, and acted in nearly 450 episodes by the time he left the show in 2006. He subsequently made appearances on CSI: NY, Cold Case, and Gemini Division along with several other TV series and movies.
4 Justin Harley Played Oliver Queen/Green Arrow In CW’s Smallville, But He Almost Played This Other DC Character
Justin Hartley played Oliver Queen/The Green Arrow for the very first time on CW’s Smallville in 2006, making him the first actor to play the comic book hero in a live-action adaptation. That same year, the actor was cast to play Aquaman in a CW TV series, but unfortunately the show was not picked up by CW.
After the network passed on the pilot, it was made available online through iTunes in the United States on July 25, 2006, and became the number-one most downloaded television show on iTunes.
3 Justin Hartley Also Has Experience Behind The Camera
Justin Hartley is not just an actor. In fact, Hartley has a few producer credits to his name. In addition to starring in The Noel Diary, Hartley is credited as an executive producer. He is also credited as an executive producer on Another Time (2018) in which he starred alongside his ex-wife, Chrishell Stause. Hartley has also directed two episodes of This Is Us.
2 How Many Times Has Justin Hartley Been Married?
Justin Hartley has been married three times. He was first married to Lindsay Korman-Hartley in 2004, but their marriage however ended in 2012 with the former couple sharing custody of their daughter Isabella. Hartley’s next marriage was to Chrishell Stause in 2017; the actor then filed for divorce from the Selling Sunset star in 2019.
Justin Hartley is currently married to The Brave actress Sofia Pernas since 2021.
1 What Is Justin Hartley’s Net Worth?
His acting debut was in 2002 when he was cast as Fox Crane on Passions, a role he retained until 2006, and has since landed many different TV and film roles. Justin Hartley’s hard work has certainly paid off as celebritynetworth estimates his fortune to be around $7 million.