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Boreanaz at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.
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Born |
Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
May 16, 1969
Alma mater | Ithaca College |
Occupation | Actor, producer, occasional director |
Years active | 1993–present |
Spouse(s) | Ingrid Quinn (m. 1997–99) Jaime Bergman (m. 2001) |
Children | 2 |
David Boreanaz (pronounced /bɔːriˈænəz/, Italian: [boɾeˈaːnad͡z]; born May 16, 1969) is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for playing vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–present).
Boreanaz was born on May 16, 1969 in Buffalo, New York, where his father, Dave Roberts (né 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. He has two older sisters, Bo and Beth. He is of Italian descent on his father's side (the surname Boreanaz is of Slovenian-Italian origin and was originally spelled "Berginc"). His mother is of half Slovakian and part Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent.