Daniel F. Purcell
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Daniel was born in Washington, D.C. and was raised in Vienna, Virginia
where he was the fifth of six children. His father was a map maker and
his mother was a homemaker. The Purcell children were constantly
writing and performing their own plays and his first role was as a
filing cabinet in his elementary school play. In middle school he
played the butler in the play Cheaper by the Dozen because he was the
only one who could affect a proper English accent. He has always had an
ear for accents and has a wide repertoire of accents and dialects. In
high school from his sophomore year on he had lead roles in every play
performed at the school and even did summer stock at Wolf Trapp with
performances at the Kennedy Center. He planned on majoring in Drama at
college but by the middle of his senior year his plans had changed and
he ended up earning a degree in computer science. He married Jennifer
in 1980 and together they raise three wonderful Children. Daniel
returned to acting in 2010 with an award-winning performance of Stanley
Gardner in the play Run for Your Wife. Through a series of
serendipitous events he learned of a film audition and decided to give
it a try. He was cast as Olympic soccer coach Dettmar Kramer in
For the Glory (2012) and his film
and TV career had started.
