Daniel William Strong (born June 6, 1974) is an American actor, film and television writer, director, and producer. As an actor, he is best known for his roles as Jonathan Levinson in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doyle McMaster in Gilmore Girls. He also wrote the screenplays for Recount, the HBO adaptation Game Change, Lee Daniels' The Butler, and co-wrote the two-part finale of The Hunger Games film trilogy, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Strong also is a co-creator, executive producer, director, and writer for the Fox series Empire and created, wrote and directed the award-winning Hulu miniseries Dopesick. He has won two Emmy Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a NAACP Image Award.

Filmography

• Mafia Spies — Executive Producer
• 2021Dean Martin: King of Cool — Executive Producer
• Dopesick — Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• The Right Stuff — Shorty Powers, Executive Producer
• Proven Innocent — Writer, Director, Executive Producer
• 2019The Best of Enemies — Producer
• 2017Rebel in the Rye — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — Aaron Lebowitz
• Billions — Todd Krakow
• Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life — Doyle
• 2016Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — Perspective Manipulator
• Empire — Writer, Director, Creator
• 2015Knight of Cups — Danny Strong
• 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Screenplay
• 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 — Screenplay
• 2013The Butler — Freedom Bus Journalist, Writer
• 2012Game Change — Writer, Co-Executive Producer
• Justified — Albert Fekus
• 2009Robbin' in da Hood
• 2009Weather Girl — Kurt
• 2008Bad Guys — Ashley
• Leverage — Dennis Retzing
• 2008Recount — Co-Producer, Writer
• Mad Men — Danny Siegel
• 2007Sydney White — Gurkin
• 2007Veritas, Prince of Truth — Raymond Wilkins
• 2006Life Is Short — Mike
• 2006Outside Sales — Toby
• Grey's Anatomy — Paul
• How I Met Your Mother — Trey Platt
• 2003New Suit — Greg
• Nip/Tuck — Bart
• 2003Seabiscuit — Young Jockey
• 2001Asylum Days — Yann's Assistant
• Gilmore Girls — Doyle
• 2000Perpetrators of the Crime — Phil
• 2000Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th — Boner
• 1998Pleasantville — Juke Box Boy
• 1998The Prophecy II — Julian
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer — Jonathan Levinson
• Over the Top
• Union Square — Bill
• 3rd Rock from the Sun — Aramis
• Hey Arnold! — Teen #1 / Teen #2 (voice)
• 1995Dangerous Minds — Student
• Boy Meets World — Arthur
• Saved by the Bell: The New Class — Noogie
• Seinfeld — Vincent
• Becoming Houdini — Producer
• Losing Lois Lane — Robin the Boy Wonder
• Oz — Producer

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2004Collectormania 6 — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self