Daniel W. Strong is an American actor and writer in film and television. Strong was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California. where he would rent videos from Video Archives, becoming friends with Quentin Tarantino who was then a clerk there. "I would just literally sit and chat with him for 45 minutes, an hour at a time about movies, and he got me turned on to all these different movies that 10 year olds don't see." Strong studied film and theatre at the University of Southern California. Strong is known for playing Jonathan Levinson on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer... and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMasters on Gilmore Girls, but he has also appeared in films such as Pleasantville, Dangerous Minds, the spoof Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth, and was in the film Sydney White as the Grumpy dork, Gurkin. Strong has also had guest parts in sitcoms such as Seinfeld, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Over the Top, "Grey's Anatomy" and How I Met Your Mother and has also guest-lectured in acting classes on finding a job as an actor.
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