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Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor. He is primarily known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012) and Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series You (2018–2025). For Gossip Girl, he received six Teen Choice Award nominations, and for You, he earned MTV Movie & TV Award and Saturn Award nominations. Badgley first became known for portraying Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000–2001), which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination, and he followed this with roles in the comedy films John Tucker Must Die (2006) and Drive-Thru (2007). Badgley went on to appear in a number of films, such as the thriller The Stepfather (2009), the teen comedy-drama Easy A (2010), the financial thriller Margin Call (2011), the biographical film Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012) and the independent drama The Paper Store (2016). For Margin Call, he won an Independent Spirit Award.
Penn Badgley
Dan Humphrey (original)
for Dan Humphrey (original) in Gossip Girl: Damage Control
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Season two begins immediately after the season one finale's archive drop. The social order is in chaos. Lily and Henry's friendship is strained by the reveal of his mentorship program (which Lily sees as social work, which Lily's mother views as beneath their station). Jack has publicly come out as gay after Gossip Girl's post went viral and received unexpectedly positive support from the LGBTQ+ community and several unexpected allies. Amara's scholarship is reviewed after Gossip Girl reveals that her parents paid for SAT tutoring (perfectly legal, but in the context of the elite world, a serious breach of propriety). Marcus and Henry's relationship is exposed and becomes a media spectacle that neither wanted. The season tracks the aftermath of digital exposure as these teens learn that apologies don't erase posts, that context gets lost in viralisation, and that real consequences follow digital scandal. Meanwhile, new Gossip Girl posts begin targeting the adults who created this world — Serena, Blair, Chuck, Dan, and even Nate find themselves under digital scrutiny, forcing them to acknowledge that their kids' world is simply an evolution of the one they created.
