Actor

Dan Trachtenberg

Directing

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.9

Low visibility

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Movies: 7Series: 5Crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 568322

IMDb ID: nm0870469

Known for: Directing

Born: May 11, 1981

Age: 44

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1998 - 2025

Years active: 28

Average TMDB rating: 7.42

Wikidata: Q5214505

Also known as

Ден Трахтенберґ • دان تراختنبرغ

Other jobs

Director (5)Executive Producer (2)Story (2)Key Grip (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Dan Trachtenberg (born May 11, 1981) is an American filmmaker and podcast host. He is best known for directing the films 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) and Prey (2022), the former earning him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film. For television, he directed the pilot episodes of The Boys (2019) and The Lost Symbol (2021), the latter of which he also served as an executive producer. Trachtenberg was one of three hosts of The Totally Rad Show podcast and a former co-host of the Geekdrome podcast. He also directed episodes for the Ctrl+Alt+Chicken podcast, all hosted at Revision3. He directed the 2011 short film Portal: No Escape, an episode of Black Mirror entitled "Playtest," and various television commercials and public service announcements.