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 (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–2025). 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 (2000–2001), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive-Thru (2007). Badgley went on to appear in a number of films, such as the thriller The Stepfather (2009), the teen comedy-drama 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.
18 movies · 20 shows
The Birthday Cake
2021·5.1
Here Today
2021·7.0
Adam Green's Aladdin
2016·6.8
The Paper Store
2016·5.5
Periods.
2014·3.4
Cymbeline
2014·3.9
Parts Per Billion
2014·4.4
Greetings from Tim Buckley
2013·5.2
East of Eden
2012·8.0
Margin Call
2011·6.9
The Making of Easy A
2010·3.0
Easy A
2010·6.8
The Stepfather
2009·5.8
Forever Strong
2008·7.1
Drive Thru
2007·5.3
John Tucker Must Die
2006·6.1
Debating Robert Lee
2004·6.5
The Fluffer
2001·5.8