Daniel Randolph "Dan" Humphrey is a fictional character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Penn Badgley in the TV series.
Daniel Humphrey is the son of Rufus Humphrey and has a younger sister, Jenny Humphrey. His absent mother Jeanette, who ran off with a European aristocrat, returns to support Dan when she hears of his sexual confusion. Dan and his family live on the liberal cultured and artistic Upper West Side, the...
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Daniel Randolph "Dan" Humphrey is a fictional character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Penn Badgley in the TV series.
Daniel Humphrey is the son of Rufus Humphrey and has a younger sister, Jenny Humphrey. His absent mother Jeanette, who ran off with a European aristocrat, returns to support Dan when she hears of his sexual confusion. Dan and his family live on the liberal cultured and artistic Upper West Side, the alternative of the old moneyed and conservative Upper East Side. He attends the Riverside Preparatory School for Boys, where wealthy playboy Chuck Bass attends, on the West Side as a scholarship student. At the end of the series, he matriculates to Evergreen State College in Washington.
He is described as being attractive and sensitive, loves to write poetry, and one of his poems, ‘Sluts’, was featured in The New Yorker. He revealed his favorite word is “death” and drinks copious amounts of dark coffee and chain smokes cigarettes. He over...
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