Badgley was born in Baltimore, Maryland and विभाजित करें, विभक्त करें his childhood years between Richmond, Virginia and Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, he attended Charles Wright Academy (in Tacoma, WA), and was involved with the Seattle Children's Theatre. He soon began doing voice-overs for a children's radio stations.
At age 11, Badgley relocated with his mother to Hollywood and began pursuing an अभिनय career. According to Badgley's former homeschool classmate Blake Lively, Badgley also pursued a गाना career, and recorded a pop single in 1998. At the age of 14, Badgley took the California High School Proficiency Exam and began attending Santa Monica College. At 17, after completing two years of credits at Santa Monica College, he was accepted as a Junior at the विश्वविद्यालय of Southern California (USC), where he deferred admission due to contractual obligations.
Badgley's first credit was voice work for the video game Mario Golf 64 in 1999 although he claims to have never played it himself. He followed this in 2000 with voice work on Mario टेनिस 64. His first screen अभिनय credit was on an episode of Will & Grace. He followed this up with appearances on shows such as Daddio, The Brothers Garcia and What I Like About You, among others.He also appears in John Tucker Must Die playing Scott Tucker. In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $14.3 million, ranking third in the U.S. box office results for that weekend. As of November 2, the film has grossed $41 million domestically.
Badgley's first notice came with his role as Phillip Chancellor IV #8 on the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2000 - 2001). He was nominated for a 2001 Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Daytime Series for his work.
In 2002, he starred in the WB half-hour series Do Over. Badgley starred as Joel Larsen, a 34-year-old man, gets a सेकंड chance to get his life right, thanks to a freakish accident that catapults him back to 1980, as a 14-year-old.The दिखाना premiered on The WB टेलीविज़न Network, which is currently known as The CW. He appeared on the Tonight दिखाना with नीलकंठ, जय, जे Leno as this दिखाना opened. The series was cancelled short of a full season. Badgley later apppeared in Drive-Thru playing वैन, वान co-starring future castmate Leighton Meester.
Wider audiences may recognize him from his अगला starring role as Sam Tunney in The Mountain (2004 - 2005), but was cancelled after the first season. The same thing happened to The Bedford Diaries, another series where Badgely had a lead role. While the दिखाना was popular, it was cancelled in its first season.
In The CW's new drama Gossip Girl, Badgley portrays Dan Humphrey, the son of 1990's former rock तारा, स्टार Rufus Humphrey (Matthew Settle). He plays the प्यार interest of Upper East Side's it girl, Serena वैन, वान der Woodsen (Blake Lively). The दिखाना revolves around the lives of socialite young adults growing up on New York's Upper East Side who attend elite academic institutions while dealing with sex, drugs, and other teenage issues.
He is set to तारा, स्टार in the announced 2008 remake of the 1987 American thriller film The Stepfather.
In late 2007, it was reported that Badgley was dating his Gossip Girl co-star and former childhood classmate Blake Lively. In May 2008, People magazine published चित्रो of Lively and Badgley चुंबन while on vacation in Mexico. The two have since become और open about their relationship.
In October 2008, Badgley appeared alongside Lively in a MoveOn.org campaign ad in support of Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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