Dane DiLiegro

Dane DiLiegro is an American actor who came to film after eight seasons as a professional basketball player in Italy and Israel. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, he first worked as a stand-in on Free Guy in 2019, where a stunt coordinator encouraged him to pursue acting. Soon after he was cast as Protein in the Netflix series Sweet Home, in a role that required an eighty-pound foam latex suit. He played Ba'al in American Horror Stories and later starred as the Predator in Prey (2022), performing the acting, stunts, and motion capture himself. He also appeared in Monsters of California (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Imaginary (2024) as Chauncey Bear, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. On television he appears as the recurring character Badrag Knauss in Running Point and has a part in the fifth season of Only Murders in the Building. In 2022, Comic Book Resources placed him among the ten best monster actors of all time.