Photo: Danny Woodburn / CC BY-SA 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Danny Woodburn is someone I respect well beyond his filmography, and the filmography itself is enormous: more than 150 television and 30 film appearances, most famously Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld. What really lands for me is that the Philadelphia native, a Temple University graduate, turned his platform into advocacy, becoming a prominent voice for disability rights connected to his dwarfism. Plenty of working actors stay quiet; he used his visibility to push the industry to treat performers with dwarfism as actors first. That combination of relentless craft and principled activism is rare. I admire him for refusing to let the work and the advocacy be separate things.
Overview
Danny Woodburn (born July 26, 1964) is an American actor, comedian and activist for the disability rights movement linked to his dwarfism. He played Mickey Abbott on the sitcom Seinfeld. He has more than 150 television and 30 film appearances to date.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Danny Woodburn
- Name (Japanese)
- ダニー・ウッドバーン
- Reading
- だにー・うっどばーん
- Born
- July 26, 1964 (age 61)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Abington Senior High School
- University
- Temple University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Television actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.