Penn Badgley
Penn Dayton Badgley ( born November 1, 1986 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American actor, primarily for his roles in The Restless, Do Over - was known back in the 80s and Gossip Girl.
Life
Penn Badgley grew up in Richmond, Virginia and Seattle, Washington. He played with the Seattle Children 's Theatre and made some synchronous work for a children's radio station. Through this work, he discovered his passion for acting.
After he had passed the age of 14 years, the California High School Proficiency Exam, he studied for two years at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles. After that, he was accepted at the University of Southern California; However, the beginning of his studies will move due to his acting operation until further notice.
He was for his role in the Restless (TV series ) for a Young Artist Award in the category Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series 2001 - Nominated Young Actor. From 2007 to 2012, he was seen in The CW series Gossip Girl youth in the role of Dan Humphrey. In the 2011 film shot Greetings from Tim Buckley directed by Dan Algrant he took over the role of Jeff Buckley including the vocal parts.
Private
From 2007 to 2010 he was in a relationship with his fellow actress Blake Lively. In October 2011, his relationship with the actress Zoë Kravitz was officially after the two were seen together in July 2011.
He has an older half-sister, to which he, however, no fraternal maintains contact. Aside from acting to Badgley is also dedicated to music: he sings, writes songs and plays guitar. In addition, he also hosted the Video Music Awards 2010 in Los Angeles, among other things with Chelsea Handler.
Currently Badgley lives in New York.