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Danny Strong - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born June 6, 1974 in Manhattan Beach, California is an American actor, screenwriter, film and television producer, and film director.
He started acting at a young age. Strong rented videos from the Video Archives and befriended Quentin Tarantino, who worked there as a clerk. "I used to literally sit down and chat with him for 45 minutes about films, and he switched me to those films that have not been watched for decades." Strong attended Mira Costa High School and then studied film and theater at the University of Southern California.
Strong is best known for playing Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls, and has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville, Dangerous Thoughts, Favorite , a scary movie parody, as well as a grunt Garkin in Sidney White. Strong has also had guest roles on sitcoms like Seinfeld, Clueless, The Third Planet From The Sun, The Upside Down House, Grey's Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother, and his were also invited to lecture at acting courses on how to find work as an actor. Most recently, Strong appeared in the hit AMC series Mad Men as Danny Siegel, a young man with no talent trying to break into the advertising industry. then making a career in Hollywood. Strong also appeared on the HBO series Girls in the third and fourth seasons; and appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of Justice as Albert Fencus, an overseer in a rapist prison.
At the age of 25, in hopes of starring in his film, Strong wrote the screenplay for a black comedy about two people who kill an elderly man for his apartment. The film was never produced, but it made him want to become a screenwriter. His first successful screenplay was Recount, an HBO 2000 US Election film directed by Jay Roach. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson and premiered on May 25, 2008. The script was ranked # 1 on the 2007 Hollywood Blacklist, a list of "most liked" but unproduced scripts as voted by the Hollywood community and insiders. Strong was nominated for an Emmy in 2008 for Best Screenplay in a Miniseries, Film or Drama Program, for Recount. The film was nominated for Best Miniseries or Television Film at the 66th Golden Globes and won an Emmy Award for Best Television Film, as well as a US Writers Guild Award for Best Original Screenplay for a Television Film.
After Calculating, Strong wrote the 2012 film adaptation of The Game Has Changed, based on a book written by John Heilimann and Mark Halperin. The film stars Julianne Moore and aired on HBO on March 10, 2012. In 2012, he won an Emmy Award for Best Screenplay in a Miniseries, Film or Drama Program for The Game Has Changed. The film was also honored with the Peabody Award, which recognizes outstanding and distinguished public service for radio and television stations, cable networks, production organizations and individuals.
In February 2012, he was hired to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Dan Brown's Lost Symbol, whose production has stalled since 2013.
Strong wrote the screenplay for The Butler. The film is starred by Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker and directed by Lee Daniels. The script was on the 2010 Hollywood Blacklist. The film was released in August 2013 and grossed over $ 100 million in the US. He also made a cameo appearance in the film.
In December 2013, Strong signed on to write a new screenplay for the film adaptation of Boys and Dolls, which originally premiered on Broadway in 1950.
Strong also co-authored the television series Empire with Daniels in 2014, in which he writes and directs several episodes.
Strong is one of the screenwriters of the two-part Mockingjay, the finale of The Hunger Games. Part 1 was released on November 21, 2014 and Part 2 was released on November 20, 2015.
