The extraordinary American actor Dan Fogler, who is famous for his big expressive eyes and slightly wild look, has gone from a singer performing in musicals on Broadway to a real Hollywood star. It's hard to imagine that parody talent will help him win the Tony Award (theatrical analogue of the famous Oscar), which he received for the best role in a famous musical.
Biography
Dan Fogler, whose full name is Daniel Kevin Fogler, was born October 20, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, Shari, is an English teacher, and his father, Richard Fogler, is a military doctor. A private theater school was opened at Boston University, where the future star learned the basics of the difficult acting profession.
The first thing Dan Fogler, whose biography from the very beginning was connected with musicals and productions of plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov, learned, in his own words, to dance in tights and perform all those unthinkable actions that did not fit in with himby yourself.
Career start
In 2002, Dan Fogler made his first television appearance on Thirty Seconds of Fame, where he presented his parody of film actor Al Pacino. After that, he took part in the filming of the video for the group Type O Negative. Here he portrayed a man parodying celebrities and filming himself on camera.
Dan Fogler's voice can also be heard in animated films, where they are "spoken" by many characters, such as Gribble ("Red Planet Mystery"), Councilman ("Horton"), Zeng ("Kung Fu Panda"), as well as the actor participated in the dubbing of the animated series "Robot Chicken".
Singer popularity
For the first time, his talent was talked about throughout the country when he played the role of Mr. Barfi in the acclaimed musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2005. The whole plot of the production was that six oddly awkward teenagers who have entered puberty take part in a Putnam County spelling contest. Their tutors are three equally eccentric adults who somehow managed to avoid all the difficulties that usually come with the onset of puberty.
During the competition, teenagers not only compete in spelling, but also begin to understand that winning it is not the most important thing in life, and if you still lose, then this circumstance does not make you a loser. Dan Fogler himself (photo in the article) is sure that he managed to embody in the best possible way inhis character, Mr. Barfi, all the fears that he himself suffered during his youth.
The actor was pleased with his work and said that this is exactly how he wanted to portray him on stage. It's safe to say that Vogler himself came up with his own character: a fanfaron and an obnoxious bouncer with a gait of a duck waddling from side to side. It is worth noting that this show was a resounding success, and this is evidenced by the fact that his show on Broadway lasted for more than nine months! For this work, he was awarded several awards, but the Tony Award became the most authoritative of them.
Film career
At first, Dan Fogler, whose films are now known and loved all over the world, starred in short films. The first one was released in 1999 and was called Brooklyn Thrill Killer. It was a drama directed by Paul Franco and Derek Davidson. However, the real fame to him as a movie actor was brought by the picture "Balls of Fury" by Robert Ben Garant, which was released on the big screens in 2007. Here, Fogler played the lead role of Randy Dighton, an extremely gifted ping-pong player whose career, alas, rolled down. However, the CIA gave him the opportunity to return to big sport, but for this he must take part in an illegal tournament organized at the estate of a crime boss. In this film, he played with the famous actor Christopher Walken.
In the same year, Dan Fogler appeared in another film - a comedy called Good Luck Chuck! - together withJessica Alba and Dane Cook. In 2009, he made his own film Hysterical Psychopath. It was a truly explosive mixture of thriller, comedy and horror. His film was honored to open the Tribeca Film Festival in New York at the time.
In 2013, his second work as a director was released - the film "Don Peyote". By the way, he himself played in it the main role of the bungler and loser Warren, who toiled from idleness until he met a homeless eccentric who told him about the imminent end of the world. Now 45 years old Dan Fogler has 45 acting and 3 directorial jobs, and he is also successfully acting in several films at the same time, most of which should be released this year.
