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Danny Strong

Highest Rated: 78% Recount (2008)

Lowest Rated: 14% Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th (2000)

Birthday: Jun 6, 1974

Birthplace: Manhattan Beach, California, USA

An actor turned award-winning screenwriter, Danny Strong grew up outside Los Angeles. After graduating from USC with a theater degree, he started his television career in 1994 on the "Saved by the Bell" spinoff, "Saved by the Bell: The New Class." Strong bounced around for a few years after that, with bit roles on several shows, including the classic sitcom "Seinfeld" and the Michelle Pfeiffer teacher drama "Dangerous Minds." A supporting role on another TV spinoff, "Clueless," came his way in 1997. This led to Strong's biggest break later that same year, when he joined the cast of the wildly popular "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" series. Strong played Jonathan Levinson, a depressed student whose fortunes turn when he dabbles in witchcraft. When "Buffy" went off the air in 2003, Strong quickly got back to work, with a major recurring role on the family dramedy "Gilmore Girls" as Doyle McMaster, editor of Yale's school newspaper. Having always aspired to be a screenwriter, Strong asserted himself as a serious writing talent in 2008 with the star-studded HBO original film "Recount," based on the 2000 Presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush--and the subsequent Supreme Court case challenging the voting results in Florida. Strong won a Writers Guild of America Award for "Recount," his debut screenplay. In 2010, he returned to acting, scoring a recurring role on the AMC advertising drama, "Mad Men," as inept copywriter Danny Siegel.

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Highest rated movies

78% 81% Recount
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73% 43% New Suit
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71% 78% Lee Daniels' The Butler
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70% 66% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Watchlist 69% 71% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Watchlist
67% 76% Game Change
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51% 76% The Best of Enemies Watchlist
36% 70% Sydney White
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33% 44% The Prophecy II
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29% 64% Rebel in the Rye Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
51% 76% The Best of Enemies Producer $10.2M 2019
29% 64% Rebel in the Rye Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$376.7K 2017
70% 66% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 Screenwriter $281.7M 2015
69% 71% The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Screenwriter - 2014
71% 78% Lee Daniels' The Butler Screenwriter $116.6M 2013
67% 76% Game Change Screenwriter - 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad Guys Ashley (Character) - 2008
78% 81% Recount Writer - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Robbin' in Da Hood Loan Officer (Character) - 2007
36% 70% Sydney White Gurkin (Character) $11.7M 2007
No Score Yet 14% Veritas, Prince of Truth Unknown (Character) - 2006
73% 43% New Suit Greg (Character) $67.5K 2002
14% 31% Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th Boner (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Perpetrators of the Crime Phil (Character) - 1999
33% 44% The Prophecy II Julian (Character) - 1998

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Real Time With Bill Maher Guest 2022
89% 94% Dopesick Executive Producer 2021
57% 72% The Right Stuff John "Shorty" Powers (Character) 2020
84% 48% Empire Executive Producer 2015-2020
26% 64% Proven Innocent Executive Producer 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Call With Carson Daly Guest 2017
97% 95% Justified Unknown (Guest Star) 2014-2015
89% 75% Girls Pal (Guest Star) 2014-2015
94% 96% Mad Men Danny Siegel (Guest Star) 2010 2013
84% 72% Grey's Anatomy Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
84% 84% How I Met Your Mother Trey (Guest Star) 2011
92% 88% Leverage Dennis Retzing (Guest Star) 2009
No Score Yet 88% Gilmore Girls Doyle McMaster (Guest Star) 2003-2007
74% 82% Nip/Tuck Bart (Guest Star) 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet L.A. Dragnet Unknown (Guest Star) 2004
85% 92% Buffy the Vampire Slayer Jonathan Levinson (Guest Star) 1997-2003
88% No Score Yet Maybe It's Me Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Clueless Unknown (Guest Star) 1997-1999
89% 92% Seinfeld Vincent (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet 96% Hey Arnold! Unknown (Guest Voice) 1996
No Score Yet 86% Boy Meets World Arthur (Guest Star) 1996