Daniel Eric Gold

Daniel Eric Gold is an American actor who attended Lee Strasberg's Theater Institute and earned a theater arts degree from Penn State in 1996. Born in Los Angeles, he moved to Chicago after college and performed in plays there, including Jean Cocteau's Indescretions and Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice. In 1998 he played Ste in Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing at The Famous Door Theater, and the production later moved to New York's Cherry Lane Theatre in 1999, where it opened to rave reviews. He went on to stage roles in Craig Lucas's A Small Tragedy, which earned him a 2004 Lucille Lortel Award nomination, and The Singing Forest, which contained a part written for him. His other theater work includes The Paris Letter and Eric Bogosian's subUrbia. His films include Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Birds of America (2008), Last Night (2010) and Café (2011). In 2009 he made his television debut on Ugly Betty as Matt Hartley.