Daniel Eric Gold (born September 19, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. He attended Lee Strasberg's Theater Institute as a teenager, and went on to graduate from Penn State in 1996, with a degree in Theater Arts.
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Career
Theater
Gold moved to Chicago after college, where he performed as Michael in Jean Cocteau's Indescretions, in Oak Park Festivals' production of Much Ado About Nothing, and in Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice. In May 1998, he landed the part of Ste in Jonathan Harvey's coming of age play Beautiful Thing at The Famous Door Theater in Chicago. The play's success there brought the whole cast to the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, where it opened to rave reviews in February 1999.
Since moving to the West Village in 2000, Gold has played several theater roles. For Craig Lucas, he performed in This Thing of Darkness at the Atlantic Theater, A Small Tragedy and a role written especially for him in The Singing Forest. He performed in Loot and Singing Forest for the regional theater Intiman in Seattle.
He is a 2004 nominee for the Lucille Lortel Award for acting in Lucas' Obie Award-winning play, Small Tragedy.
In June 2005, Gold was in Roundabout's The Paris Letter with John Glover and Ron Rifkin. That role was followed by Eric Bogosian's subUrbia.
Film and television
Film roles include War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise, Charlie Wilson's War with Tom Hanks, Definitely, Maybe with Ryan Reynolds, Birds of America again for Craig Lucas, and Spinning into Butter with Sarah Jessica Parker. Other roles include Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Last Night with Keira Knightley.
In 2009, Gold made his TV debut in Ugly Betty as Matt Hartley, the love interest for the title character, played by America Ferrera.
Gold was in the independent film Café in Philadelphia, with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jamie Kennedy.
He also appears in national commercials for McDonald's and AFLAC.
Personal life
Gold lives in Brooklyn. He is of English and Jewish descent.