Penn Badgley
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
Margin Call
as Seth Bregman 2011
John Tucker Must Die
as Scott 2006
The Stepfather
as Michael Harding 2009
Forever Strong
as Lars 2008
Here Today
as Rex 2021
Drive Thru
as Van 2007
Cymbeline
as Posthumus 2014
Parts Per Billion
as Erik 2014
The Birthday Cake
as Peeno 2021
The Fluffer
as Young Sean 2001
Greetings from Tim Buckley
as Jeff Buckley 2013
Adam Green's Aladdin
as Prince 2016
The Paper Store
as Sigurd Rossdale 2016
Periods.
2014
Debating Robert Lee
as Matt's Debate Opponent 2004
East of Eden
as Caleb 2012