Acting
Penn Badgley
EN cinema · 21 credits
Born
1 November 1986 (age 40)
Birthplace
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Also known as Penn Dayton Badgley
Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor. He is primarily known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–2025). For Gossip Girl, he received six Teen Choice Award nominations, and for You, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations. Badgley first became known for portraying Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000–2001), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive-Thru (2007). Badgley went on to appear in a number of films, such as the thriller The Stepfather (2009), the teen comedy-drama Easy A (2010), the financial thriller Margin Call (2011), the biographical film Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012) and the independent drama The Paper Store (2016). For Margin Call, he won an Independent Spirit Award.
Known for
Filmography
You Deserve Each Other
You Deserve Each Other
as Nicholas 'Nick' Rose, Executive Producer
NDA
NDA
Actor
Here Today
as Rex
The Birthday Cake
as Peeno
Adam Green's Aladdin
as Prince
The Paper Store
as Sigurd Rossdale
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
Periods.
Actor
Greetings from Tim Buckley
as Jeff Buckley
East of Eden
as Caleb
Margin Call
as Seth Bregman
Easy A
as Woodchuck Todd
The Stepfather
as Michael Harding
Moth
Executive Producer
Forever Strong
as Lars
Drive Thru
as Van
John Tucker Must Die
as Scott
Debating Robert Lee
as Matt's Debate Opponent
The Fluffer
as Young Sean