Penn Badgley
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| Date of birth: November 1, 1986 | Penn Badgley's Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland
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| Actor mini-bio: Badgley was born in Baltimore, Maryland and split his childhood years between Richmond, Virginia and Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, he attended Charles Wright Academy (in Tacoma, WA), and was involved with the Seattle Children's Theatre. He soon began doing voice-overs for a children's radio stations. Badgley was named after a tennis ball brand called Penn because his father would often grip on Penn tennis balls, and the fact that, when first seen in the womb, Badgley was said to be as small as a tennis ball. At age 11, Badgley relocated with his mother to Hollywood and began pursuing an acting career. According to Badgley's former homeschool classmate Blake Lively, Badgley also pursued a singing career, and recorded a pop single in 1998. At the age of 14, Badgley took the California High School Proficiency Exam and began attending Santa Monica College. At 17, after completing two years of credits at Santa Monica College, he was accepted as a Junior at the University of Southern California (USC), where he deferred admission due to contractual obligations. | | |
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| PENN BADGLEY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS | |
| | | Non-acting careers: | | Movies: He is set to star in the announced 2008 remake of the 1987 American thriller film The Stepfather. | | TV: Badgley's first notice came with his role as Phillip Chancellor IV #8 on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000 - 2001). He was nominated for a 2001 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Daytime Series for his work. In 2002, he starred in the WB half-hour series Do Over. Badgley starred as Joel Larsen, a 34-year-old man, gets a second chance to get his life right, thanks to a freakish accident that catapults him back to 1980, as a 14-year-old.The show premiered on The WB Television Network, which is currently known as The CW. He appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as this show opened. The series was cancelled short of a full season. Badgley later apppeared in Drive-Thru playing Van co-starring future castmate Leighton Meester. Wider audiences may recognize him from his next starring role as Sam Tunney in The Mountain (2004 - 2005), but was cancelled after the first season. The same thing happened to The Bedford Diaries, another series where Badgely had a lead role. While the show was popular, it was cancelled in its first season. In The CW's new drama Gossip Girl, Badgley portrays Dan Humphrey, the son of 1990's former rock star Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle). He plays the love interest of Upper East Side's it girl, Serena van der Woodsen/Blake Lively). | | Stage: | | Big break: | | Best known for: | | Awards: | | Upcoming projects: |
| | | | PENN BADGLEY QUOTES | - When you're wet and your clothes cling to you, you feel more exposed, almost more naked than naked. Everything is more romantic by water. Everyone remembers his or her first kiss in the pool, in the rain.
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| | | PENN BADGLEY TRIVIA | - He was named after Penn tennis balls! "My father was bouncing a Penn tennis ball for stress during my mom's pregnancy," he told E! Online. "When my mother got her first amnio... she just casually mentioned that the baby is the size of that tennis ball, and that's it. I'm glad it wasn't Dunlop or Wilson."
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| | | PENN BADGLEY PICTURES | | See More Penn Badgley Pictures ► | | HOW TO ADD YOUR PHOTO TO THE GALLERY | | 1. Go to the Penn Badgley Photo Gallery and click on the "Add photos to album" link on the top left of the page. | | 2. The "Add photo" dialog box will appear. | 3. Choose the location of the image you want to upload.
a. To add an image that's on your computer, select the "On my computer" option, and then click on the "Browse" button to navigate to the photo's location on your hard drive.
b. To add an image directly from a website, click on the "Add from URL" button and paste in the complete image URL of your mural (example: http://www.wetpaint.com/images/sample.jpg). | | 4. Type in a title and description of your photo then click “Edit Photo Details." | | | | | | |
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Blake Lively | Leighton Meester | Chace Crawford | Ed Westwick | Taylor Momsen | Jessica Szohr | Kelly Rutherford | Matthew Settle
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