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American actor (born )

Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, ) is an American actor and producer. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (–) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You (–present).^[1][2][3]

Badgley came to prominence playing Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap operaThe Young and the Restless (–).

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He featured in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (), Drive-Thru () and Easy A (), the thriller films The Stepfather () and Margin Call (), the biographical film Greetings from Tim Buckley (), and the drama film The Paper Store ().

Early life

Badgley was born on November 1, ,^[4] in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Duff and Lynne (Murphy) Badgley.^[5][6] His father had worked as a newspaper reporter and then as a carpenter and home builder.

He was the Green Party candidate for governor of Washington state in