Daniel Gillies (born March 14, 1976) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actor.
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With Peter Parker begining as a teenage high school student, the series has aspects of teen angst in a modern world with modern social tools like mobiles phones/text messaging mixed with pseudo-science to create various supervillains.
