Daniel Travis (born March 10, 1968) is an American actor.
Travis was born and raised in
Clarkston, Michigan
Clarkston is a city in Oakland County, Michigan, United States. A northern suburb of Detroit, located about northwest of downtown Detroit, Clarkston is surrounded by Independence Township, but administered independently since its incorporation i ...
. He received a BFA in theater from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He went on to receive an MFA at The
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It is named for Mason W. Gross, the sixteenth president of Rutgers. Mason Gross offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater, Digi ...
at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
. His early work was on the stage, playing John Buchanan in ''Summer and Smoke'', The Earl of Richmond in ''Richard III'' and Paul in ''Barefoot in the Park''.
In 2001, Travis made his small-screen debut with guest appearances on the short-lived television show ''The Education of Max Bickford'', starring Richard Dreyfuss. Without ever having appeared in a film, Travis made his big-screen debut in a starring role in ''
Open Water'', about a couple who go scuba diving and are left behind in the ocean by accident while on an organized dive.
Most recently, Travis starred in the Subaru television commercial, ''Ricky''.
Filmography
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1968 births
American male film actors
Male actors from Michigan
People from Clarkston, Michigan
Living people
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