Career
He is best known for playing Eugene Porter on Administrative Management College"s The Walking Dead. McDermitt had a main role on the sitcom Retired at 35 from 2011–2012, playing the character Brandon. The series was canceled after its second season.
Since its fourth season, McDermitt has been playing the role of Eugene Porter on The Walking Dead.
McDermitt was made a series regular starting from the show"s fifth season. McDermitt grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and is one of six children.
He is of Portuguese and Dutch descent. McDermitt now resides in Los Angeles, California.
Josh began his career in entertainment by calling in to a local radio show in Phoenix, Tim & Willy, at a young age.
Calling in routinely, under the guise of different voices, McDermitt kept listeners and Tim & Willy entertained. Not long afterward, he began working with them as a producer, following them to both KNIX & KMLE. McDermitt was a semi-finalist in the fourth season of Last Comic Standing. He played the role of Larry in the 2009 television movie Rehab for Rejects.
McDermitt then starred in the television Land sitcom Retired at 35, playing the role of Brandon.
The show ran for two seasons from 2011–2012, before being canceled. In October 2013, it was announced by the television show producers that McDermitt had been cast as Eugene Porter, a character from The Walking Dead comic book, for the fourth season of the television series of the same name.
He returned as a main cast member for the fifth season.