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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.
Jack Torrance, a recovering alcoholic and aspiring writer, takes a job as the off-season caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel. He moves into the grand resort for the winter with his wife, Wendy, and their young son, Danny. Danny possesses "the shining," a powerful psychic ability that allows him to see the horrific ghosts and dark secrets embedded in the hotel's bloody history. As a brutal winter storm traps the family inside and cuts them off from the outside world, the hotel's malevolent supernatural forces begin to feast on Jack’s vulnerabilities, slowly driving him into a state of violent insanity.Wendy is forced to protect her son as Jack completely unravels, transforming from a desperate father into a bloodthirsty monster. Danny must use his supernatural gift to survive the haunting visions and the real-world terror roaming the corridors. The story builds to a chilling climax where the family must escape the frozen labyrinth of the Overlook before Jack's madness consumes them all. It is a masterpiece of psychological horror that explores how isolation can unleash the monsters hidden deep within the human mind.
