Joseph Michael Manganiello is an American actor. His professional film career began when he played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. His breakout role came in the form of werewolf Alcide Herveaux in five seasons of the HBO series True Blood. He is also known for his role in How I Met Your Mother as Brad. In 2017 he won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy as the narrator of the documentary Pittsburgh Is Home: The Story of the Penguins.
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Joseph Michael Manganiello (born December 28, 1976) is an American actor. His professional film career began when he played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. His breakout role came in the form of werewolf Alcide Herveaux in five seasons of the HBO series True Blood. He is also known for his role in How I Met Your Mother as Brad. In 2017 he won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy as the narrator of the documentary Pittsburgh Is Home: The Story of the Penguins, which documented the first 50 years of history of the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team. In late 2013, he became a published author when his first book, Evolution, was released by Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books. His directorial debut came in 2014 with the documentary feature La Bare, which he also produced and financed. In 2016, he was cast as Slade Wilson Deathstroke in the DC Extended Universe, making his first appearance in 2017’s Justice League. His great-grandmother was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide where her husband and seven of her children were murdered and her eighth child drowned during the escape. His father, born and raised outside of Boston, MA, is of Italian descent, from Naples, and his mother is of Armenian, Austrian, and Croatian ancestry.
He was a student at St. Bernard School, a Roman Catholic elementary school in Mt. Lebanon, and then attended Mt. Lebanon High School, where he graduated with honors in 1995 and won the school’s Great Alumni Award in 2011. He moved to Los Angeles, California after graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 2000 with a BFA in acting. He has a younger brother, Nicholas. He also played Officer Litchman, the love interest to Linda Cardellini’s boyfriend on VH1’s VH3 in 2006, and boyfriend on Vegas 3 in 2006. In 2007, he appeared in the pilot for New York City premiere of Skirts & Flirts & Kirts, a monologue by Gloria Calderon. He returned to the stage playing The Chick Magnet in May 2007 for the New York premiere of The Magnet in New York. He played the role of Ulfheim in Henrik Ibsen’s When We Dead Awaken, Lorenzo in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice for Quantum Theatre, and Joe in the Pittsburgh premiere of the Last Night of Ballyhoo. He appeared in numerous productions in Pittsburgh’s theatre scene.
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