Penn Badgley

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 20072012 and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You 2018present 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 20002001 which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die 2006 and DriveThru 2007 Badgley went on to appear in a number of films such as the thriller The Stepfather 2009 the teen comedydrama 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