He's a big bad wolf in your neighborhood, not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good. Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiello ( ; born December 28, 1976) is a classically trained American film and theatre actor. He holds a BFA in acting from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He played Flash Thompson in the Spider-Man film series, and had recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother and One Tree Hill, among others. He has received both critical and popular praise for his role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood. Manganiello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb south of the city. His parents are Charles and Susan Manganiello.
Manganiello is of Sicilian, Austrian, German and Armenia descent, and has a younger brother, Nicholas. He was a student at St. Bernard School, a Roman Catholic elementary school in Mt. Lebanon, and then attended Mt. Lebanon High School, where he graduated with honors in 1995 and won the school's Great Alumni Award in 2011.
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Growing up he was the captain of his football, basketball, and volleyball teams and went on to play at the varsity level in all three sports. Manganiello won the role of Jud Fry in his school's senior year production of Oklahoma!, and was involved with the school's TV studio. On weekends, he would borrow equipment to make movies with his friends, and became interested in acting to become a better amateur filmmaker.
Ever since the biggest superhero crossover of all time Superman VS Batman was announced at Comic-Con, everyone has been wondering who will be the new Batman now that Christian Bale is officially done. Well, we hear the list is short, but it makes up for it by having some BIG names! Ryan Gosling is certainly pretty enough to face off with Henry Cavill, and Joe Manganiello has the muscIes. We'd totes be happy with either one! Especially if the fight is mostly naked mud wrestling!
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