Danny Strong

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Danny Strong at the Peabody Award (2013)

Danny Strong (born June 6, 1974 in Manhattan Beach , California ) is an American actor and screenwriter .

life and career

Strong began acting in high school and won numerous high school drama actor awards, after which he studied drama at the University of Southern California .

Strong, who is with a height of 1.57 m quite small for a Hollywood actor, was beginning his television career in 1994 in several episodes of the series Saved by the Bell: The New Class to see a spin-off from Saved by the Bell . He had a small supporting role in 1995 in the film Dangerous Minds . This was followed by other supporting roles in the popular series Buffy - The Vampire Slayer and Clueless - The Chaos Clique in the late 1990s . He also made short appearances in the films Pleasantville - Too Good to Be True and God's Army II - The Prophecy (both 1998).

His originally small supporting role as Jonathan in Buffy , in which he could be seen from 1997, was expanded significantly in later seasons. In the fourth season (2000) he only had one appearance, but this in the episode Jonathan , in which he plays the main role. In the sixth season, his character transformed into one of the main antagonists of the protagonist.

After Buffy quit , Strong starred as Doyle in the Gilmore Girls series from 2003 . Until 2007 he played the friend of Paris Geller , played by Liza Weil , in 21 episodes of the series. In 2007, he played the role of Gurkin (one of the Nerds) in the film Sydney White - Campus Queen alongside Amanda Bynes . In 2011, Strong took a small guest role on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Trey Platt, who buries Mr. Eriksen Sr., the father of Marshall Eriksen ( Jason Segel ).

In 2008 he worked as a screenwriter for the first time and wrote the script for the film Recount . In 2012 he received an Emmy for the screenplay of the film Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect . He also wrote the script for the film The Butler (2013) and adapted the novel The Hunger Games - Flammender Zorn , which was published in 2014 and 2015 under the titles The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2 in the cinemas came.

Since 2015 he has been executive producer for the Fox television series  Empire , which he also helped develop as a screenwriter.

In December 2016, Strong got engaged to girlfriend Caitlin Mehner, whom he had met about three years earlier. The actor announced this on his official Instagram profile.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Danny Strong  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniela S .: "Gilmore Girls" star Danny Strong has got engaged. myFanbase, January 2, 2017, accessed January 2, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Strong, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan Beach , California , United States