Dan Vogler: biography, film career, photo

Unconventional American actor Dan Vogler, who is famous for his large expressive eyes and a bit wildish look, has gone from a singer performing in musicals on Broadway to a real Hollywood star. It's hard to imagine that the parody talent will help him become a laureate of the Tony Award (theatrical counterpart of the famous Oscar), which he received for his best role in the famous musical.

Biography

Dan Vogler, whose full name is Daniel Kevin Vogler, was born on October 20, 1976 in New York's Brooklyn. His mother, Shari, is an English teacher, and his father, Richard Vogler, is a military doctor. At the University of Boston , a private theater school was opened, in which the future star and learned the basics of a hard acting profession.

The first thing Dan Vogler, whose biography from the very beginning was connected with musicals and productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov's plays, learned, in his own words, to dance in tights and perform all those unthinkable actions that do not tally with him.

Carier start

In 2002, Dan Vogler first appeared on television in the program "Thirty seconds of glory", where he presented his parody of the film actor Al Pacino. After that, he took part in the shooting of a clip for the band Type O Negative. Here he portrayed a man parodying celebrities and shooting himself on camera.

Dan Fogler's voice can also be heard in animated films, where they are "spoken" by many heroes, such as Gribble (The Secret of the Red Planet), councilor (Horton), Zeng (Kung Fu Panda), and an actor Participated in the scoring of the animated series "Robotsyp".

Popularity of the singer

For the first time his talent was spoken to the whole country, when he played the role of Mr. Barfi in the sensational musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2005. The whole plot of the production consisted in the fact that six weird, awkward teenagers who entered the period of puberty take part in the contest on the spelling of Putnam County. Their mentors are three of these same eccentric adults, who somehow managed to avoid all the difficulties that usually arise with the onset of the transition years.

During the competition, teenagers not only compete in spelling, but also begin to understand that winning it is not the most important thing in life, and if you still lost, this circumstance does not make you a loser. Dan Vogler himself (photo in the article) is sure that he managed to realize in his character, Mr. Barfi, all those fears, from which he suffered at the time of his youth.

The actor was pleased with his work and spoke about this, that this is exactly what he wanted to portray him on stage. It can be said with certainty that Vogler himself invented his character: a fanfare and an unbearable braggart with a duck's gait, which swung from side to side. It is worth noting that this show was a breathtaking success, and this is evidenced by the fact that his show on Broadway lasted for more than nine months! For this work, he was awarded several awards, but the most authoritative of them was the Tony Award.

Film career

First, Dan Vogler, whose films are now known and loved around the world, was shot in short films. The first of them was released in 1999 and was called Brooklyn Thrill Killer. It was a drama staged by filmmakers Paul Franco and Derek Davidson. However, the real glory to him as a movie actor brought the picture of "Balls of Fury" by Robert Ben Garant, released on big screens in 2007. Here Vogler played the lead role of Randy Daytona - an extremely gifted player in ping-pong, whose career, alas, rolled down. However, the CIA gave him the opportunity to return to the big sport, but for this he must take part in an illegal tournament, organized in the estate of the criminal authority. In this film, he played with the famous actor Christopher Walken.

In the same year, Dan Vogler lit up in another film - a comedy titled "Good Luck, Chuck!" - along with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook. In 2009, he withdrew his own painting "Hysterical Psycho". It was a truly explosive mixture of thriller, comedy and horror. His film was honored to open the Tribeca Film Festival, which was held at that time in New York.

In 2013, his second work as a director - the film "Don Peyot" was released. By the way, he himself played the main role of the sprawl and loser Warren, who was suffering from idleness, until he met with a homeless eccentric who told him about the imminent end of the world. Now on the account of forty-year-old Dan Vogler, there are already 45 acting and 3 director's works, and he also successfully shoots simultaneously in several films, most of which are to be released this year.