Danny Strong
Danny Strong
Daniel W. "Danny" Strongis an American actor, screenwriter, television & film producer, and film director. As an actor, Strong is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls. He also wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Strong also is a co-creator, executive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth6 June 1974
CityManhattan Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.
I think I've had my fill of electoral law.
I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.
My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.
Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.
I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
I took a lot of writing courses.
I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.
I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.