Daniel Franzese
Daniel Franzese was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States on May 9th, 1978 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 45, Daniel Franzese biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Daniel Franzese (born May 9, 1978) is an American actor, comedian and activist best known for his roles in director Larry Clark's Bully and as Damian in Tina Fey's 2004 feature film Mean Girls.
Franzese is the creator of several live comedy shows including the 2011 rock opera Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera! and his one-man stand-up performance I've Never Really Made the Kind of Money to Become a Mess in 2013.After coming out as gay in 2014, Franzese became more active in the fight for civil and human rights in the LGBTQ community; and through his portrayal of the HIV-positive character Eddie in the second season of the HBO series Looking, and its subsequent series finale television film, Looking: The Movie, he has become a well known AIDS activist in the United States.
In 2015 he became an ambassador for the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.
Early life
Franzese was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Denise, a cafeteria worker, and Ralph "R. J." Franzese, a lounge singer. Franzese attended Piper High School in Sunrise, Florida from 1992 to 1996. He is of Italian descent.
Personal life
In 2016, Franzese proposed to his boyfriend of two years, stylist Joseph Bradley Phillips, at a Starbucks in North Hollywood, California. They called off their engagement in July 2018.
Career
Daniel Franzese has appeared in numerous document films, including Bully, Party Monster, Mean Girls, Bristol Boys, War of the Worlds. In addition, he has appeared on several television shows, including The Comeback, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Burn Notice, Party Down, and the web series Foodies. He appeared in the 2010 film I Spit on Your Grave.
Eddie in the HBO series Looking was his role in 2015; in 2016, he was cast as Vern Testaverde in ABC Family's Recovering Road. Jackson Morrison appeared in ABC's legal drama Conviction between 2016 and 2017.
Franzese has written, produced, and performed many live comedy performances, including his one-man Off-Broadway show "I've Never Really Made the Kind of Money to Mess" at The Players Theatre in New York in 2013 and his 2011 rock opera JERSEY SHORESICAL: A FRICKIN ROCK OPERA!, which premiered in Los Angeles at the Hayworth Theatre. Franzese has also performed on stages around the country, including Stand Up Live in Phoenix and the Comedy Store in Hollywood.
Franzese has appeared on the Logo TV comedy game show Gay for Play Starring RuPaul and was the host of Gay Skit Happenings, a comedy sketch film on Logo TV.
YASS, Franzese's stand-up comedy tour, found success in colleges, clubs, and theaters. He has appeared at The Burbank Comedy Festival and The Ruby LA Queer Comedy Festival. At SF Sketchfest in 2019, Franzese performed his hit New York comedy show Danny Franzese and The House Of Glen Coco, featuring his pick of the best and brightest in queer comedy.
Franzese curated his first art show called Halloween, a multi-artist exhibition that explored fame, esteem, and the titular holiday.
Franzese curated an art exhibit called depARTed at the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery in Los Angeles, California, on April 25, 2008. The exhibition featured artwork influenced by famous artists such as Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, James Dean, and Anna Nicole Smith to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. Ron English, Keyth Ryden (also known as KRK Ryden), and Jessicka were among the artists on display.
At the Royal/T gallery in Franzese, an exhibit of artists from around the world depicting superheroes and villains in pop culture. The show opened on July 17, 2009.
Franzese released a video describing how he was in talks with Walsh University to host an event, but was later told that the university was no longer interested. Franzese said he was barred from the festival for being gay and the university being Catholic. On the University Campus, LGBTQIA+ students were encouraged to talk about their (largely negative) experiences. Franzese extended to the students to show his love.