Daniel Stern (actor)

Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern on July 9, 2014.
Born	Daniel Jacob Stern (1957-08-28) August 28, 1957 (age 59) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Other names	Dan Stern
Occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active	1977–present
Spouse(s)	Laure Mattos (m. 1980)
Children	3; including Henry Stern
Family	David M. Stern (brother)

Daniel Jacob Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American film and television actor, director and screenwriter. He is known for his roles in the Hollywood films Breaking Away, C.H.U.D., Diner, City Slickers, the first two Home Alone films, where he played bandit Marv Merchants, and as the voice-over narrator on the television series The Wonder Years as the present-day adult Kevin Arnold. He also starred in the horror comedy film Otis.

Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland, to a social worker father and a mother who managed a day care center. His parents are both Jewish. His brother is television writer David M. Stern. During his years at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Stern starred in several theater productions, including playing C.C. Baxter in Promises, Promises and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Stern applied for a job as a lighting engineer for a Shakespeare Festival in Washington, D.C., but was hired as a walk-on in their production of The Taming of the Shrew, starring Glenn Close. He dropped out of high school in his senior year and soon moved to New York. After taking acting lessons at HB Studios with Austin Pendleton and Herbert Berghof, Stern began his acting career in Off Broadway and Broadway productions, including True West with Gary Sinise and How I Got That Story at Second Stage Theatre with Bob Gunton. He acted in numerous productions at The Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Cherry Lane Theater,and Manhattan Theater Club.