Daniel William Strong was born on June 6,1974 and is an American actor, film and television writer, director, and producer.
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21 Facts About Danny Strong
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Danny Strong wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and co-wrote the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2.
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Danny Strong has won two Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, two Peabody Awards and an NAACP Image Award.
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Danny Strong grew up in Manhattan Beach, California in a Jewish family of Lithuanian, Russian, and Polish origin.
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Danny Strong attended Mira Costa High School, and then studied film and theatre at the University of Southern California.
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Danny Strong is known for playing Jonathan Levinson on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMaster on Gilmore Girls, but he has appeared in films such as Pleasantville, Dangerous Minds, Seabiscuit, the spoof Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, and was in the film Sydney White as the Grumpy dork, Gurkin.
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Danny Strong has had guest parts in sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Clueless, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Over the Top, Grey's Anatomy, Boy Meets World and How I Met Your Mother and has guest-lectured in acting classes on finding a job as an actor.
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Danny Strong appeared on the HBO series Girls in the third and fourth seasons; and appeared on the fifth and sixth seasons of Justified as Albert Fekus, a rapist prison guard.
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Danny Strong is currently starring in Billions as Todd Krakow, Secretary of the Treasury.
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Danny Strong was set to appear in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as Dean Martin.
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At 25, in the hopes of being the lead actor in his own film, Danny Strong wrote a dark comedy about two men who kill an elderly man for his rent-controlled apartment.
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Danny Strong followed up Recount with the 2012 film adaptation of Game Change, based on the book written by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.
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In December 2013, Danny Strong signed on to pen the new screenplay for the film adaptation of the musical Guys and Dolls, which originally premiered on Broadway in 1950.
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Danny Strong co-created the TV series Empire with Daniels in 2014, for which he has written and directed multiple episodes.
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Danny Strong co-wrote the two-part Mockingjay, the finale of The Hunger Games series.
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Danny Strong made his directorial debut with the biographical film on the life of author JD Salinger, Rebel in the Rye.
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Danny Strong followed this up by directing the last two episodes of the award winning limited series Dopesick for he which he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Directors Guild Award for Best Director of a Limited Series.
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Danny Strong got engaged to actress Caitlin Mehner on December 29,2016, in Hawaii after meeting her three years earlier.
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