Penn Badgley
Biography
Penn Badgley is an American actor and producer who started as a child performer in Los Angeles. He voiced characters in Mario Golf 64 and Mario Tennis 64, then made his first screen appearance on Will & Grace. His first notable role was Phillip Chancellor IV on The Young and the Restless, which he played from 2000 to 2001 and earned a Young Artist Award nomination. He became widely known as Dan Humphrey on Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012, collecting six Teen Choice Award nominations. In film, he appeared in John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive Thru (2007), then later in The Stepfather (2009) and Easy A (2010). The ensemble of Margin Call (2011) won the Robert Altman Award, and he earned best actor honors for The Paper Store (2016). From 2018 to 2025 he starred as Joe Goldberg in Netflix's You, gaining a Saturn Award nomination.
39years old
Turns 40 on November 1in 31 days
- Born Baltimore
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Penn Dayton Badgley
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 15 years2006 to 2021
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First role
Penn Badgley's first credit came from voice work. He voiced characters in the video games Mario Golf 64 in 1999 and Mario Tennis 64 in 2000.
About the name
Badgley helped start a band whose track "Easy" went up on SoundCloud as M O T H E R and drew attention on many blogs. A cease-and-desist from a similarly named group led the band to respell its name as MOTHXR in 2015.
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