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Daniel Eric Gold (born September 1973) is an American theater, TV and movie actor. He has won a Lucille Lortel award for acting in the Craig Lucas play "Small Tragedy" in 2004.

Gold was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Benjamin K. Gold, a biochemist, and Susan E. Gold an artist and calligrapher. His father was American, his father's family was of European Jewish descent and his mother was English. Gold's parents had met while working together in Los Angeles and were married until his father's death in 1997. His mother and her present husband Barry, married in 2007. Gold grew up in Los Angeles and NY's Long Island and Rockland County. He attended Lee Strasberg's Theater Institute as a teenager and went on to graduate from Penn State with honors and highest distinction in Theater Arts in 1996.

Early Theater Career

Gold moved to [Chicago] after college where he performed as Michael in Jean Cocteau's "Indescretions", Oak Park Festivals "Much Ado About Nothing" and Patrick Marber's "Dealers Choice"''. In May 1998 he landed the part of Ste in Jonathan Harvey's coming of age play "Beautiful Thing" at The Famous Door Theater in Chicago. It's success there brought the whole cast to the Cherry Lane Theater in NY where it opened to rave reviews in February 1999.

Since moving to NY's West Village in 2000 Gold has had many chances to play wonderful theater roles with many fine actors. Again for the prolific Craig Lucas he has done "This Thing of Darkness" at the Atlantic Theater, " A Small Tagedy" and a role written especially for him in "The Singing Forest". He has done both "Loot" and "Singing Forest" for the wonderful regional theater, Intiman, in Seattle.

June 2005 found Gold doing Roundabout's "The Paris Letter" with John Glover and Ron Rifkin who fondly called him Broadway Danny Gold and predicted a great future for him. Followed by Eric Bogosian's "subUrbia" stangely enough the very play he produced for his degree, a full circle for the artist. Then the Second Stage Theater production of "Len Asleep in Vinyl" before turning to film.

Film roles began with "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise. "Charlie Wilson's War" with Tom Hanks. "Definitely Maybe" with Ryan Reynolds and "Spinning into Butter" with Sarah Jessica Parker.

2009 has been a very productive year with Gold's break out TV role at Matt in ugly Betty with America Ferrera as his love interest and Christine Baranski and David Rasche as his parents. With upcoming roles in Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock' and "Last Night" with Kiera Knightley and "Harvest" in post production.

Recent Projects

Gold is now filming an indie production "Cafe" in Philadelphia with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy while Ugly Betty is on hiatus until next season.

Personal life

Gold now lives in Brooklyn with his beautiful partner, Jane Green, a VP at Talbots and his infant son, Benjamin. They recently renovated a wonderful townhouse and like the quiet and serenity of their neighborhood.