1. Joe Manganiello is known for his roles in films such as Magic Mike, Magic Mike XXL, Pee-wee's Big Holiday, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Sabotage, and Rampage.
47 Facts About Joe Manganiello
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Joe Manganiello is known for his role as Brad Morris in How I Met Your Mother.
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Joe Manganiello is active with several charities, primarily UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for which he serves on the board of trustees.
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Joe Manganiello's mother is of Croatian, German, and Armenian descent.
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Joe Manganiello's maternal great-grandmother, Terviz "Rose" Darakjian, was a survivor of the Armenian genocide, where her husband and seven of her children were killed.
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Joe Manganiello resumed his life there with his German wife and children, and never saw Rose Darakjian again.
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Joe Manganiello's grandmother is the child of Beutinger and Rose Darakjian.
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Joe Manganiello would borrow equipment in order to write and direct films with his friends, which eventually inspired him to begin studying acting.
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Joe Manganiello suffered a series of sports injuries through High School, including a torn medial collateral ligament while returning a kickoff in a varsity football game against Ringgold High School.
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The time off allowed Joe Manganiello to reevaluate his future and so he decided to audition for the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama during his senior year.
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Joe Manganiello was not accepted, so he enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh and worked over the next year in the theater.
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Joe Manganiello then reapplied to Carnegie Mellon a year later, and was awarded a scholarship, accepted into the acting program that year.
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Joe Manganiello graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting.
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Joe Manganiello then traveled to New York City and Los Angeles through his university to participate in group auditions, which provided him contacts in the entertainment business including an agent, a manager, and a screen test for Sam Raimi's Spider-Man.
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Joe Manganiello moved to Los Angeles, California, after graduating from Carnegie Mellon.
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Joe Manganiello quickly signed with a talent agent, and three days later, he auditioned for the role of Peter Parker in the Sam Raimi-directed film Spider-Man.
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Joe Manganiello landed the role of Eugene "Flash" Thompson, Peter Parker's nemesis in high school, as his first acting job out of college.
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Joe Manganiello reprised the role several years later, making a brief cameo in Spider-Man 3.
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Joe Manganiello began finding work in television, playing Tori Spelling's boyfriend on VH1's So Notorious in 2006, and guest starred on Las Vegas, Jake in Progress, and Close to Home.
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Joe Manganiello played Officer Litchman, the love interest to Linda Cardellini's character, for a four-episode arc on NBC's ER.
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Joe Manganiello then played Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire for the West Virginia Public Theatre in 2008, directed by his former Carnegie Mellon professor Geoffrey Hitch.
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Joe Manganiello starred as Leo Belraggio, a New York jazz musician, in the West Coast premiere of Terrence McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion in June 2009.
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The summer prior, Joe Manganiello worked alongside McNally and director Leonard Foglia to create the role at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
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Joe Manganiello played the lawyer Brad Morris on several seasons of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother.
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Joe Manganiello shot the series in Wilmington, North Carolina, and returned for its sixth and seventh seasons.
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Joe Manganiello played Stu on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death for two episodes, and starred in the short film Wounded that year, which he originated on the stage and won Best Short Film at the 2011 Big Island Film Festival.
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Joe Manganiello starred in the direct-to-video war film Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia in 2009 playing Lt.
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Joe Manganiello appeared in an episode of Medium in 2009, and has guest starred on all three series of CBS's CSI television franchise.
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Joe Manganiello had a role in the independent film Irene in Time.
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Joe Manganiello shot television pilots for 100 Questions and the Pittsburgh-set sitcom Livin' on a Prayer.
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In late 2009, Joe Manganiello was cast as werewolf Alcide Herveaux in the third season of HBO's True Blood.
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Joe Manganiello was originally brought in by casting for the role of Coot, another werewolf in the series, but was asked by the producers to read for Alcide instead.
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Joe Manganiello familiarized himself with the novels while growing out his hair and beard.
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Joe Manganiello trained twice a day for months to add muscle to match the description of the character in the books.
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Joe Manganiello got a suntan to set himself apart from the vampires on the series and spent time studying live wolves.
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In early 2011, Joe Manganiello was asked to screen test for the title role of Superman in Man of Steel, for which he was rumored to be the front runner, but due to scheduling problems with True Blood, he was forced to drop out during the final stage.
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In between Magic Mike films and finishing out his last two seasons of True Blood, Joe Manganiello branched out in a multitude of different ways.
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Joe Manganiello received multiple offers from distributors in the lobby after the first screening and within 24 hours sold the International and Domestic rights, including sales to Showtime and Netflix.
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Joe Manganiello was given the Triple Threat Award from the Maui International Film Festival later that year for his work on the film.
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In 2017, Joe Manganiello won an Emmy as the narrator of the documentary Pittsburgh is Home: The Story of the Penguins, which documented the first 50 years of history of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team.
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Joe Manganiello worked as a game designer for Hasbro's remake of the adventure board game Hero Quest to write a quest book as a stretch goal in 2020.
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Joe Manganiello directed and produced the 2007 short documentary DieHardz about Steelers fans who meet up at bars in Los Angeles, California.
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Joe Manganiello is a Pittsburgh Penguins fan and hosted the 2017 NHL Awards and the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft.
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Joe Manganiello was once a roadie for the band Goldfinger and is friends with lead singer John Feldmann; he toured internationally with the group as a member of their security.
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Joe Manganiello became engaged to actress Sofia Vergara on Christmas Eve 2014 after six months of dating.
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Joe Manganiello is a longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation and learned at the David Lynch Foundation center in Los Angeles.
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Joe Manganiello is an advocate for Armenian causes, and serves on the board of directors for Children of Armenia Fund.