Daniel Eric Gold

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1999–present

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Daniel Eric Gold (born September 19, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. He attended Lee Strasberg's Theater Institute as a teenager, and went on to graduate from Penn State in 1996, with a degree in Theater Arts.

Career

= Theater =

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 Dealer's 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. Its success there brought the whole cast to the Cherry Lane Theatre in NY, where it opened to rave reviews in February 1999.

Since moving to NY's West Village in 2000, Gold has played several theater roles. For Craig Lucas, he performed in This Thing of Darkness at the Atlantic Theater, A Small Tragedy and a role written especially for him in The Singing Forest. He performed in Loot and Singing Forest for the regional theater Intiman in Seattle.

He is a 2004 nominee for the Lucille Lortel Award for acting in the Craig Lucas Obie winning play, Small Tragedy.{{cite web|url=http://www.lortel.org/llf_awards/index.cfm?page=previous2004 |title=Previous Nominees and Recipients |publisher=Lucille Lortel Awards, Off-Broadway Awards |year=2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908025845/http://www.lortel.org/LLF_awards/index.cfm?page=previous2004 |archive-date=2012-09-08 }}

In June 2005, Gold was in Roundabout's The Paris Letter with John Glover and Ron Rifkin. That role was followed by Eric Bogosian's subUrbia.

=Film and television =

Film roles include War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks. Definitely, Maybe with Ryan Reynolds, Birds of America again for Craig Lucas and Spinning into Butter with Sarah Jessica Parker. Other roles include Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Last Night with Keira Knightley and The Harvest in post production.

2009 marked Gold's debut TV role in Ugly Betty as Matt Hartley, the love interest for the title character, played by America Ferrera.

Gold was in the independent film Café in Philadelphia, with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy.

He also appears in national commercials for McDonald's and AFLAC.{{cite web |url=http://www.crushable.com/2009/05/06/entertainment/daniel-eric-golds-mcdonalds-commercial/ |title=Daniel Eric Gold's McDonalds Commercial |author=Tom Landers |website=crushable.com |date=May 6, 2009}}

Personal life

Gold lives in Brooklyn with his family. He is of English and Jewish descent.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

Theatre

class="wikitable sortable" \|+Off-Broadway
Year ! Title ! Role ! Venue
1999 \| Beautiful Thing \| Ste \| Cherry Lane Theatre
2002 \| This Thing of Darkness \| Donald/Reef \| Linda Gross Theater
2004 \| Small Tragedy \| Christmas \| Playwrights Horizons
2005 \| {{sortname\|The\|Paris Letter\|nolink=1}} \| Sam Arlen/Young Sandy \| Laura Pels Theatre (current)
2006 \| subUrbia \| Jeff \| Second Stage Theatre
2008 \| Len, Asleep in Vinyl \| Max \| McGinn-Cazale Theatre

class="wikitable sortable"

|+Off-Broadway

Year

! Title

! Role

! Venue

1999

| Beautiful Thing

| Ste

| Cherry Lane Theatre

2002

| This Thing of Darkness

| Donald/Reef

| Linda Gross Theater

2004

| Small Tragedy

| Christmas

| Playwrights Horizons

2005

| {{sortname|The|Paris Letter|nolink=1}}

| Sam Arlen/Young Sandy

| Laura Pels Theatre (current)

2006

| subUrbia

| Jeff

| Second Stage Theatre

2008

| Len, Asleep in Vinyl

| Max

| McGinn-Cazale Theatre

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2005 \| War of the Worlds \| Conspiracy buff \|
2007 \| Charlie Wilson's War \| Donnelly \|
2008 \| Birds of America \| Gary \|
2008 \| Definitely, Maybe \| Charlie \|
2008 \| Spinning into Butter \| Nathan \|
2009 \| Taking Woodstock \| Joel Rosenman \|
2010 \| Harvest \| Seth Winters \|
2010 \| Last Night \| Andy \|
2010 \| Café \| Todd \|
2012 \| Hello I Must Be Going \| Noah \|
2016 \| Hacker \| Sye \|
2017 \| The Outcasts \| Mr Samuels \|
2023 \| The Magnificent Meyersons \| Daniel Meyerson \|

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2005

| War of the Worlds

| Conspiracy buff

2007

| Charlie Wilson's War

| Donnelly

2008

| Birds of America

| Gary

2008

| Definitely, Maybe

| Charlie

2008

| Spinning into Butter

| Nathan

2009

| Taking Woodstock

| Joel Rosenman

2010

| Harvest

| Seth Winters

2010

| Last Night

| Andy

2010

| Café

| Todd

2012

| Hello I Must Be Going

| Noah

2016

| Hacker

| Sye

2017

| The Outcasts

| Mr Samuels

2023

| The Magnificent Meyersons

| Daniel Meyerson

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
2005 \| Law & Order: Trial by Jury \| Nick \| Episode: "Bang & Blame"
2005 \| Law & Order \| David "D" Glass \| Episode: "Flaw"
2009–2010 \| Ugly Betty \| Matt Hartley \| Recurring (season 3); main cast (season 4); 20 episodes
2010 \| Law & Order \| Alex Conway \| Episode: "Brilliant Disguise"
2012 \| Christmas with Holly \| Alex Nagle \| Television film
2012 \| Girls \| Jessa's ex-boyfriend \| Episode: "Hard Being Easy"
2013 \| Blue Bloods \| Grady \| Episode: "Lost and Found"
2016 \| Good Girls Revolt \| Sam \| Recurring
2017 \| The Blacklist \| Robert Dahle \| Episode: "The Apothecary"
2017 \| Chicago Fire \| Mark Blakeslee \| Episodes: "My Miracle", "Sixty Days"
2018 \| Titans \| Bill \| Episodes: "Harvest"
2020 \| Group \| Henry \| 7 episodes

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2005

| Law & Order: Trial by Jury

| Nick

| Episode: "Bang & Blame"

2005

| Law & Order

| David "D" Glass

| Episode: "Flaw"

2009–2010

| Ugly Betty

| Matt Hartley

| Recurring (season 3); main cast (season 4); 20 episodes

2010

| Law & Order

| Alex Conway

| Episode: "Brilliant Disguise"

2012

| Christmas with Holly

| Alex Nagle

| Television film

2012

| Girls

| Jessa's ex-boyfriend

| Episode: "Hard Being Easy"

2013

| Blue Bloods

| Grady

| Episode: "Lost and Found"

2016

| Good Girls Revolt

| Sam

| Recurring

2017

| The Blacklist

| Robert Dahle

| Episode: "The Apothecary"

2017

| Chicago Fire

| Mark Blakeslee

| Episodes: "My Miracle", "Sixty Days"

2018

| Titans

| Bill

| Episodes: "Harvest"

2020

| Group

| Henry

| 7 episodes

Awards and nominations

class="wikitable sortable"
Year ! Award ! Nominated work ! Result
2003–2004 \| Obie Award for Outstanding Performance \| Small Tragedy \| {{won}}
2004 \| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor \| Small Tragedy \| {{nom}}

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

! Award

! Nominated work

! Result

2003–2004

| Obie Award for Outstanding Performance

| Small Tragedy

| {{won}}

2004

| Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor

| Small Tragedy