Danny Strong
Danny Strong
Daniel W. "Danny" Strongis an American actor, screenwriter, television & film producer, and film director. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls. He also wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Strong also is a co-creator, executive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth6 June 1974
CityManhattan Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.
Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.
The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
I took a lot of writing courses.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!