Daniel Zovatto

About

Daniel Zovatto Blanco (born June 28, 1991) is a Costa Rican and American film and television actor. Since 2012, he has starred in films of the horror genre, Beneath (2013), It Follows (2014), and Don’t Breathe (2016), The Pope’s Exorcist (2023), Woman of the Hour (2023) as well as the romantic comedy Laggies (2014). Zovatto made his television debut in 2014, guest starring in an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He has since held recurring roles as Gideon LeMarchal in Revenge (2014), and Jack in Fear the Walking Dead (2016). In 2018, he appeared in one of the lead roles in HBO’s Here And Now, and a year later, he was cast in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels as the series protagonist, which premiered in 2020.

Daniel Zovatto Blanco was born on June 28, 1991 in San José, Costa Rica, the son of television personality Sylvia Blanco and named after his father, Daniel Zovatto Garetto, an Argentinian politician. Zovatto’s desire to become an actor began early when he joined his mother on a set of her talk shows in Costa Rica. He attributes his fascination with the horror genre to his father, who scared him as a child while he was watching Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining…