Daniel London

Daniel London is an actor and playwright who grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He took up acting and playwriting while in high school, and his play The Martha War won an award and was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. At Oberlin College he kept acting while majoring in English and creative writing. After moving to New York City, he landed his first major film role as Truman Schiff, Robin Williams's sidekick, in Patch Adams (1998). He appeared in two world premieres by Beth Henley, a playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize: Impossible Marriage, opposite Holly Hunter, and Ridiculous Fraud in 2006. Steven Spielberg saw his work in Impossible Marriage and cast him as Wally, the Pre-Cogs' caretaker, in Minority Report (2002). London shared the lead with musician Will Oldham in Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy (2006), an award-winning film that drew critical praise.