Danny Strong
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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Danny Strong
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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51% |
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The Best of Enemies | Producer | $10.2M | 2019 |
29% |
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Rebel in the Rye |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$376.7K | 2017 |
70% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 | Screenwriter | $281.7M | 2015 |
69% |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 | Screenwriter | - | 2014 |
71% |
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Lee Daniels' The Butler | Screenwriter | $116.6M | 2013 |
67% |
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Game Change | Screenwriter | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Guys | Ashley (Character) | - | 2008 |
78% |
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Recount | Writer | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Robbin' in Da Hood | Loan Officer (Character) | - | 2007 |
36% |
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Sydney White | Gurkin (Character) | $11.7M | 2007 |
No Score Yet |
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Veritas, Prince of Truth | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
73% |
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New Suit | Greg (Character) | $67.5K | 2002 |
14% |
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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% |
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The Prophecy II | Julian (Character) | - | 1998 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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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 |