October 30, 2011
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Daniel Peter “Danny” Masterson (born March 13, 1976) is an American actor and DJ best known for his role as Steven Hyde in That ’70s Show.
Masterson was born in Garden City, Long Island, New York, to Carol, who was his manager, and Peter Masterson, a State Farm Insurance agent.[1] His parents divorced in 1984.[2] He is of Irish descent.[3] Masterson’s stepfather, Joe Reaiche, played professional rugby league on the Australian National Rugby League’s Sydney City Roosters.[4] He has a younger brother, Christopher Masterson, who portrayed the unruly Francis on Malcolm in the Middle. His younger siblings are paternal half-brother Will Masterson, maternal half-brother Jordan “Jordy” Reaiche, and maternal half-sister Alanna Reaiche.[5] Jordy and Alanna are both actors who have been credited professionally with their half-brothers’ surname Masterson, though it is not the surname of either of their parents.[4][6][7][8]
Masterson attended Garden City High School until the tenth grade, because at the age of sixteen he moved to Hollywood. He finished his high school education with the use of independent home schooling, instead of a public school, because acting jobs became more frequent and lengthy. He later went to Pasadena Art Center, but dropped out after a semester because acting consumed too much of his time.[5][9]
Career
Acting
Masterson was a child model from the age of four who was featured in magazine articles, as well as television commercials beginning at age five. Masterson was also involved in theater, and starred on Broadway musicals as a child at the age of eight, and began acting as well. His singing voice “disappeared” by the time he was a teenager. By the time he was sixteen, he had appeared in over one-hundred commercials,[2][5] including ones for Swift Premium sausage, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes,[10] Hardee’s,[11] Hostess, Tang,[3] and Clearasil.[12]
In the early 1990s, Masterson landed a role in Beethoven’s 2nd. He also starred as Justin in Cybill and Jimmy Girvin in Roseanne. These roles launched a movie career, and he soon appeared alongside John Travolta in Face/Off. After starring in the third and fourth seasons of Cybill, Masterson decided he wanted to move on from Cybill and audition for a show originally titled Teenage Wasteland, which later was changed to That ’70s Show.[13] The original casting director for That ’70s Show, Debby Romano, resisted Masterson’s audition because he was slightly older than the rest of the cast, but finally caved and allowed him to audition. She stated that “He came in and he was just so funny.” and that he redefined where the role was going, and made the role of Steven Hyde the “tough, funny guy”.[10] He was cast as the main character Steven Hyde.
Masterson appeared in all eight seasons of That ’70s Show as main character Steven Hyde. His appearance on That ’70s Show launched a breakthrough in Masterson’s career, allowing him to pursue other endeavours between tapings. After the show concluded Masterson went on to star in several movies and made guest appearances on television shows including Punk’d and MADtv. Along with Kutcher and Valderrama, he co-hosted the Fox TV special Woodstock 1999. He had a part in the 2008 comedy Yes Man. Masterson stars with his real-life fiancee, Bijou Phillips, in the 2009 drama The Bridge to Nowhere.[5][14] In 2011, Masterson guest starred as James Roland in USA Network’s “White Collar” in the episode “Where There’s A Will.” Masterson will have a lead role in Spike’s new television series, Playing With Guns. Masterson will also portray the high-profile American social activist Jerry Rubin in the upcoming 2010 movie, The Chicago 8, written and directed by Pinchas Perry. The Chicago 8 is a movie based on the actual Chicago Eight in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and explores the events around the trial. [15] It was filmed in September and October 2009 and is likely to release in 2010.[16] The film is based closely on the trial transcripts and most of the action takes place in the courtroom.[17]
Music
Masterson began DJing in 1999 as a hobby, but it soon became a side business other than acting and owning several businesses.[18] Masterson frequently DJs at Los Angeles night clubs under the name DJ Mom Jeans, formerly DJ Donkey Punch. He came up with the name DJ Mom Jeans from That ’70s Show, because Mila Kunis and Laura Prepon had to wear mom jeans regularly and he would make fun of them.[19] Masterson is a self-described “rock and hip hop fanatic”,[13] and is also a fan of indie, electro, and funk music, all of which he primarily DJ’s with.[11][20][21] He is a fan of 1970s rock music,[13] and his favourite band is Pearl Jam.[5] Some of his other favourites include Broken Social Scene, The Strokes, Tokyo Police Club, and Midlake. He played a 2-hour set at the 2008 Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, played for the 2009 Lollapalooza, and for the 2010 Lollapalooza as well.[22][23] Additionally, with local nightlife impresario Brent Bolthouse, he co-hosted a Monday night radio show titled Feel My Heat, on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles for 6 years.[20] The show was canceled in October 2008.
In 2009, Masterson planned to release an album of his music, but that album has not yet been released.
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