Anthony Padilla

About

Daniel Anthony Padilla ( pə-DEE-yə; born September 16, 1987) is an American YouTuber. With Ian Hecox, he co-founded the YouTube-based video production company Smosh. Padilla and Hecox wrote, directed, and starred in sketch comedy videos from 2005 to 2017; after a six-year departure, Padilla returned to the company in 2023.
Outside of Smosh, Padilla hosts the podcast series I Spent a Day With… on SmoshAlike, which was originally his solo channel. He made his film debut in Smosh: The Movie in 2015, and had a voice role in the Angry Birds films starting with The Angry Birds Movie (2016).

== Early life ==
Daniel Anthony Padilla was born on September 16, 1987, in Sacramento, California, and raised in the suburb of Carmichael, California. His father is of Filipino descent and his mother is German. His parents separated when he was two, and he was raised mostly by his mother alongside his two younger half-brothers. As his mother has severe agoraphobia, she was unable to work or even leave the family home, resulting in the family surviving off food stamps; Padilla took on a great deal of responsibility from an early age, especially after his grandmother, who was the primary caretaker of…