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Dan Fogler

  • Actor
  • Director
  • Producer
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Dan Fogler
Character actor Dan Fogler, known mostly for comedic roles, plays Jacob Kowalski in the new fantasy film 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.' What other roles has Dan played over the years?
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Dan Fogler made his Broadway debut when he originated the role of William Barfée in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which he won the Theatre World Award for the original off-Broadway production and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2005 for the original Broadway production.

Fogler's first television appearance was in 2002 on FOX's 30 Seconds to Fame as a contestant impersonating Al Pacino. Other television credits include guest starring roles on AMC's The Walking Dead, ABC's The Goldbergs, NBC's Hannibal, CBS' The Good Wife and voice work for FOX's American Dad. Fogler also has had starring roles in ABC's Man Up! and Secrets & Lies.

In film, Fogler is most known for his role of Jacob Kolwalski in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald. Fogler also starred as Randy Daytona in 2007's Balls Of Fury for Focus Features and had roles in Good Luck Chuck, Fanboys, Take Me Home Tonight, Love Happens, Scenic Route, Europa Report and In Like Flynn.

Fogler has also done a variety of voiceover acting in films such as; Horton Hears A Who! along with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey, Disney's Mars Needs Moms, Free Birds and 2008's Kung Fu Panda, with Jack Black and Jackie Chan.

Some of Fogler's other projects include starring in the music video for the Type O Negative song "I Don't Wanna Be Me", in which he played a man recording himself on video as he cross-dresses as celebrities including Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and Britney Spears.

Fogler also wrote and directed the play Elephant in the Room, inspired by Ionesco's Rhinoceros, which was produced by the New York International Fringe Festival in 2007. Fogler has also written and directed Hysterical Psycho (2009) which premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, featuring actors from his theater company Stage 13 where Dan serves as one of the company's Artistic Directors, and Don Peyote (2014) which also saw Fogler in the lead role as Warren Allman, with supporting roles from Josh Duhamel, Anne Hathaway, Topher Grace. Hysterical Psycho was Fogler's first graphic novel. In 2010, Archaia Entertainment published the horror anthology Moon Lake. This collection of stories chronicles the past, present, and future of the most haunted town on Earth: Moon Lake. Fogler is also hard at work on another graphic novel, Brooklyn Gladiator.
BornOctober 20, 1976
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BornOctober 20, 1976
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  • Awards
    • 4 wins & 3 nominations

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Dan Fogler and Callan McAuliffe in The Walking Dead (2010)
Dan Fogler
Dan Fogler and Callan McAuliffe in The Walking Dead (2010)
Dan Fogler in The Walking Dead (2010)
Dan Fogler, Angel Theory, Matt Mangum, Eleanor Matsuura, Nadia Hilker, and Lauren Ridloff in The Walking Dead (2010)
Dan Fogler, Danai Gurira, and Avi Nash in The Walking Dead (2010)
Dan Fogler, Peyton List, Lyndsy Fonseca, and Jay Pharoah in Spinning Gold (2023)
Dan Fogler, Matthew Goode, and Miles Teller in The Offer (2022)
Eric Balfour, Dan Fogler, Juno Temple, Miles Teller, and Sandro iocolano in The Offer (2022)
Dan Fogler, Miles Teller, and Sandro iocolano in The Offer (2022)
Dan Fogler and Miles Teller in The Offer (2022)
Dan Fogler in The Offer (2022)

Known for

Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, and Katherine Waterston in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
7.2
  • Jacob Kowalski
  • 2016
Balls of Fury (2007)
Balls of Fury
5.3
  • Randy Daytona
  • 2007
Jessica Alba and Dane Cook in Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Good Luck Chuck
5.6
  • Stu
  • 2007
Fanboys (2009)
Fanboys
6.5
  • Hutch
  • 2009

Credits

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Actor

  • Spinning Gold
    • Buck Reingold
    • Completed
    • 2023
  • Verona
    • The Apothecary
    • Post-production
    • 2023
  • Eric
    • Lennie Wilson
    • In Production
    • TV Mini Series
  • Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, and Michael James Shaw in The Walking Dead (2010)
    The Walking Dead
    • Luke
    • TV Series
    • 2018–2022
  • Jeff Garlin, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Troy Gentile, Hayley Orrantia, and Sean Giambrone in The Goldbergs (2013)
    The Goldbergs
    • Marvin Goldberg
    • TV Series
    • 2013–2022
  • DC League of Super-Pets (2022)
    DC League of Super-Pets
    • Carl
    • Pilot
    • Racer (voice)
    • 2022
  • Giovanni Ribisi, Dan Fogler, Patrick Gallo, Matthew Goode, Juno Temple, and Miles Teller in The Offer (2022)
    The Offer
    • Francis Ford Coppola
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2022
  • Jude Law, Dan Fogler, Mads Mikkelsen, William Nadylam, Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Williams, Ezra Miller, Victoria Yeates, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
    Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
    • Jacob Kowalski
    • 2022
  • Making the Day (2021)
    Making the Day
    • Tony Guest
    • 2021
  • Big City Greens (2018)
    Big City Greens
    • Burger Clown (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Emma Bell, Dan Fogler, Maggie Q, Cleopatra Coleman, Tyler James Williams, and Danny Pudi in The Argument (2020)
    The Argument
    • Jack
    • 2020
  • Val Kilmer, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Joey Lauren Adams, Tommy Chong, Shannon Elizabeth, Kevin Smith, James Van Der Beek, Jason Biggs, Jason Lee, Fred Armisen, Diedrich Bader, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Garman, Chris Jericho, Justin Long, Method Man, Joe Manganiello, Jason Mewes, Brian O'Halloran, Donnell Rawlings, Redman, Joseph D. Reitman, Jake Richardson, Craig Robinson, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, Molly Shannon, Harley Quinn Smith, Chris Hemsworth, Frankie Shaw, Kate Micucci, Melissa Benoist, David Dastmalchian, Treshelle Edmond, Alice Wen, Aparna Brielle, and Mickey Gooch Jr. in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
    Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
    • Con-Ployee
    • 2019
  • Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Dan Fogler, William Nadylam, Alison Sudol, Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Claudia Kim, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller, and Callum Turner in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    • Jacob Kowalski
    • 2018
  • Corey Large and Thomas Cocquerel in In Like Flynn (2018)
    In Like Flynn
    • Joel Schwartz
    • 2018
  • 30 Nights (2018)
    30 Nights
    • Dr. Lance Ying
    • 2018
  • Robot Chicken (2001)
    Robot Chicken
    • Father
    • Merlin
    • The Joker (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2011–2018
  • Stephen Dorff, Dan Fogler, Grey Damon, and Bella Dayne in Sex Guaranteed (2017)
    Sex Guaranteed
    • Carl
    • 2017
  • Tara Reid, Ian Ziering, and Cassandra Scerbo in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming (2017)
    Sharknado 5: Global Swarming
    • Dan Fogler
    • TV Movie
    • 2017

Director

  • Hanukkah, O Hanukkah (A Magical Time of Year) (2019)
    Hanukkah, O Hanukkah (A Magical Time of Year)
    • Director
    • Video
    • 2019
  • Don Peyote (2014)
    Don Peyote
    • Director
    • 2014
  • M'larky (2010)
    M'larky
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2010
  • Dan Fogler in Hysterical Psycho (2009)
    Hysterical Psycho
    • Director
    • 2009

Producer

  • Sleeping in Trees
    • executive producer
    • In Production
  • Don Peyote (2014)
    Don Peyote
    • executive producer
    • 2014
  • Dan Fogler in Hysterical Psycho (2009)
    Hysterical Psycho
    • executive producer
    • 2009
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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"Stealing the Car" from Take Me Home Tonight
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"Stealing the Car" from Take Me Home Tonight
Fanboys: "Take Your Shirt Off"
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Fanboys: "Take Your Shirt Off"
Free Birds
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Free Birds
Free Birds
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Free Birds
Scenic Route
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Scenic Route
Scenic Route
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Scenic Route
Balls of Fury
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Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury
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Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury
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Balls of Fury
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Balls of Fury
Balls of Fury
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Balls of Fury
'The Crimes of Grindelwald' Cast Embrace Dark Material
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'The Crimes of Grindelwald' Cast Embrace Dark Material

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
  • Born
    • October 20, 1976
    • Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Spouse
    • Jodie Capes FoglerOctober 10, 2009 - present
  • Children
    • No Children
  • Parents
      Shari Fogler
  • Relatives
    • Jason Fogler(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Created the role of William Morris Barfee with the improvisational group The Farm in 2002. Show began as C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E off-off Broadway and morphed into Broadway's " The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" musical for which Dan won a Lortel, Outer Critics, Broadway World ,Drama Desk and Tony Award.

Did you know

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    Dan is also a talented sculptor.
  • Quotes
    In his Tony acceptance speech he said - I Feel like Rocky right now and she's my Adrian (acknowledging his girlfriend Jodie) We did it with this hair and this body. Be brave. Be different.
  • Trademark
      His thick curly hair

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