Dan Fogler is an entertainment all-rounder. He is an actor, voice actor, and stand-up comedian who has appeared on television, in films, and on Broadway. Among his many credits are the Fantastic Beasts films, Balls of Fury, Kung Fu Panda, Mars Needs Moms!, The Goldbergs, The Good Wife, and Sharknado 5. His most recent screen success has been the recurring role of Luke in The Walking Dead. He wrote and directed the 2014 comedy film Don Peyote, which won him the Domani Vision Awards for Best Director and Best Emerging Talent. His 2005 Broadway debut saw him win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2022, he will be playing Francis Ford Coppola in The Offer, a miniseries based on the making of The Godfather.
Fogler was born in Brooklyn in 1976. He began to make headway into the acting world at the start of the 2000s with various parts in short films and television shows. He also appeared on Fox’s 30 Seconds to Fame talent show, impersonating Al Pacino. In 2003, he appeared in the music video for I Don’t Wanna Be Me by heavy metal group Type O Negative, impersonating a variety of celebrities from Michael Jackson to Marilyn Monroe. In 2005, he got his major breakthrough when he appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which won him a prestigious Tony Award, something very few actors ever manage, let alone with their debut performance. Since then, his career has gone from strength to strength, with Fantastic Beasts and The Walking Dead just two of the major credits to his name.
