Daniel Eric Gold

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Daniel Eric Gold
Born	(1975-09-19) September 19, 1975 (age 48) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Daniel Eric Gold (born September 19, 1975 in

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

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.^[2]

Personal life

Gold lives in

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Theatre

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	The Paris Letter	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

Year	Title	Role	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

Television

Year	Title	Role	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"

Awards and nominations

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	Nominated

References

External links

• Daniel Eric Gold at
  IMDb
• Daniel Eric Gold at Internet Off-Broadway Database