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.
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 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Occupation
- television actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- High school
- Abington Senior High School
- University
- Temple University
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Frequently asked questions
When was Danny Woodburn born?
Born July 26, 1964 (age 62).
Where is Danny Woodburn from?
Danny Woodburn is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
What does Danny Woodburn do?
Danny Woodburn works as television actor, film actor, actor.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.