Penn Badgley Bio Wiki Age Height Wife You Movies Gossip Girl and Net Worth
Penn Badgley is a famous American actor and musician. He is known for his roles in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl as Dan Humphrey and the Netflix thriller series You as Joe Goldberg. For his role in Gossip Girl, he received six Teen Choice Award nominations, and for You, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations.
From 2000 to 2001, he potrayed Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless receiving a Young Artist Award nomination. Badgley then appeared in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die and Drive-Thru. Also, he was cast in films including Easy A, The Stepfather, Margin Call, Greetings from Tim Buckley, and The Paper Store.
He received an Independent Spirit Award for his role in Margin Call. Apart from being an actor, he was the lead singer for Brooklyn-based indie band MOTHXR. The band has a debut studio album, Centerfold, which was released in 2016.
He was born on November 1, 1986, in Baltimore, Maryland, in theUnited States. Badgley is36 years old.
He is a man of above-average stature. Badgley stands at the height of5 ft 9 in(Approx 1.75 m).
He was born to his hardworking parents in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. Badgley’s parents areDuff, who worked as a newspaper reporter and then as a carpenter and home builder, andLynne Murphy Badgley. His father was also the Green Party candidate for governor of Washington in 2008. When he was a child, he was involved with the Seattle Children’s Theatre and the Pine Nut Players community theater in Monroe, Washington.
He is hitched to his beautiful wife singerDomino Kirkeon February 27, 2017. Domino and Badgley began dating in 2014 and after their wedding, he became the stepfather of Kirke’s son. On August 2020, he welcomed his first son. Before, he was dating actress Zoë Kravitz from 2011 to 2013. Also, he had a relationship with Gossip Girl co-star Blake Lively from 2007 to 2010. Additionally, he has been a member of the Baha’i Faith since 2015 and is an outspoken activist against the persecution of Baháʼís by the government of Iran.
He studied at Woolridge Elementary before he transferred to St. Christopher’s School in Richmond. Badgley then attended Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Washington. He began skipping school and at age 14, he took a proficiency exam and began attending Santa Monica College. Further, Badgley was later accepted to the University of Southern California, but deferred admission due to contractual obligations. He then enrolled for two years at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. Additionally, he is said to have been home-schooled alongside Blake Lively.
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He has had a starring role as Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You since 2018. He potrays a bookstore manager at Mooney’s who stalks and dates Beck in the first season. In season two, he goes by the name Will Bettelheim and works as a bookstore clerk at Anavrin, and stalks and dates Love. For his role, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations. The series currently has 30 episodes in season three.
Badgley next played Todd, the love interest of Emma Stone’s character, in the 2010 teen comedy film Easy A. Easy A was partially inspired by the 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also, the film is ranked as number 14 on Entertainment Weekly’s 2021 list of the Best High School Movies.
He had a main role as Daniel “Dan” Humphrey and Gossip Girl in The CW’s teen drama series Gossip Girl from 2007 to 2012. Badgley first turned down the role but accepted it after the producers struggled to find someone to fill the role. Daniel is a student at St. Jude’s School for Boys who initially does not fit in with the Upper East Side teenagers. This is because he lives in Brooklyn and is not a legacy student, but rather attends St. Jude’s with a partial scholarship. For his role in the series, he earned six Teen Choice Award nominations.
Apart from acting, he co-hosts the society and Culture podcast, Podcrushed along with Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari. In the podcast, Badgley explores the heartbreak, anxiety, and self-discovery of being a teenager. Later, the results are sometimes awkward, sometimes heartwarming, and always relatable. Additionally, the podcast contains 32 episodes as of December 28, 2022.
Badgley is a famous American actor and musician with a net worth of$8 Million.
Badgley is 36 years old born on November 1, 1986, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.
Badgley is hitched to his beautiful wife singer Domino Kirke on February 27, 2017. Domino and Badgley began dating in 2014 and after their wedding, he became the stepfather of Kirke’s son. On August 2020, he welcomed his first son.
