Penn Badgley

Known for ActingBorn 1986-11-01 (age 39)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gossip Girl

The Brothers García

You

East of Eden

The Nightmare Room

Forever Strong

Here Today

The Twilight Zone

Margin Call

Adam Green's Aladdin

Easy A

Will & Grace

Do Over

The Mountain

Debating Robert Lee

What I Like About You

John Tucker Must Die

The Slap

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Stepfather

The Fluffer

The Bedford Diaries

The Jennifer Hudson Show

The Paper Store

Daddio

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Drive Thru

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Greetings from Tim Buckley

The Birthday Cake

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Desus & Mero

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Parts Per Billion

The View

The Making of Easy A

Cymbeline

Periods.

Moth

You Deserve Each Other