Actor
Penn Badgley
November 1, 1986 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Amanda Bynes
3 titles together
Easy A, What I Like About You, The Nightmare Room
Dan Byrd
2 titles together
Easy A, The Nightmare Room
Stanley Tucci
2 titles together
Easy A, Margin Call
Braeden Lemasters
2 titles together
Easy A, The Stepfather
Leighton Meester
2 titles together
Gossip Girl, Drive Thru
Zachary Quinto
2 titles together
Margin Call, The Slap
Full filmography · 28
The Birthday Cake
as Peeno
20215.1
Here Today
as Rex
20217
Adam Green's Aladdin
as Prince
2016
The Paper Store
as Sigurd Rossdale
2016
Periods.
cast
2014
Cymbeline
as Posthumus
20143.9
Parts Per Billion
as Erik
20144.4
Greetings from Tim Buckley
as Jeff Buckley
20135.2
East of Eden
as Caleb
2012
Margin Call
as Seth Bregman
20116.9
Easy A
as Woodchuck Todd
20106.8
The Stepfather
as Michael Harding
20095.8