Joe Manganiello
Joe Manganiello
Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiellois an American actor, director, producer, and author. He played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and had various recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother, and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood. In 2011, he was voted "Favorite Pop-Culture Werewolf of All Time" by the readers of Entertainment Weekly, and one of Men's Health's "100 Fittest Men of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth28 December 1976
CountryUnited States of America
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I'm an actor that cares.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
Acting was my first love.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.
I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
David Ayer was put on my map, at that point, and I always kept note and clocked his career. When he started directing, I saw Harsh Times, I saw Street Kings and I saw End of Watch. I gave my agents a list of directors that I wanted to work with, and at the top of that list was David. I wanted to have that experience.
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
The best love advice I've ever received is probably, 'I'm not leaving the relationship; I'm just leaving the house.'
Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."