David Boreanaz

David Boreanaz (/bɔːriˈɑːnəs/[3]) is an American actor, television producer, and director known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on The WB/UPN Buffy the Vampire Slayer supernatural drama (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004); FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, on the Fox television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017); and United States Navy SEAL Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes in the CBS/Paramount+ military drama series SEAL Team (2017–present).

Boreanaz was born in Buffalo, New York, where his father, Dave Roberts (born David Thomas Boreanaz), was working as a weather forecaster and children’s show (Rocketship 7) host as Dave Thomas, for ABC affiliate WKBW-TV. His mother, Patti Boreanaz, was a travel agent.[4] He has two older sisters, Bo and Beth. He is of Italian and Slovenian descent on his father’s side (the surname Boreanaz is of Slovenian origin).[5][6][7] His mother is of half Slovak and part Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent.[8][9]

When Boreanaz was seven years old, the family moved to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area after his father took a job at WPVI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia. Boreanaz was raised Catholic[10] and attended Rosemont School of the Holy Child at Rosemont, Pennsylvania and then high school at Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania,[11] where he was a keen athlete and played on the school football team.[1] He graduated from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, in 1991 with a degree in cinema and photography.