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Danny Booko Name-Drops Role on iCarly in The Valley Premiere: All About the Actor’s Career
"Most people recognize me and know me from the iCarly and the Hannah Montana," actor Danny Booko said in The Valley premiere.
The premiere of the new Bravo series, The Valley was a perfect time to get up close and personal with members of the cast.
That includes 40-year-old model and actor Danny Booko, who fans of iCarly may recognize from his work on the teen com-dram about a group of friends creating a webcast and navigating life.
“I’ve been a professional working actor for 18 years,” Danny said proudly in Episode 1. “Most people recognize me and know me from, you know, the iCarly, the Hannah Montana."
“More recently,” he added, "they know me for doing voiceover for things like The Walking Dead."
Who was Danny Booko on iCarly?
A Michigan native who’s married with three kids (all under age 2) with his wife, Nia, Danny got a break when he was just 22. That’s when he was cast as “Kyle” on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in 2005, according to his IMDB bio
A series of guest roles followed on other popular prime-time shows as Danny worked to build a career in Hollywood.
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Over the next five years he popped up in Entourage and Numb3rs, played a guy named Stavros in an episode of Hannah Montana titled “My Boyfriend’s Jackson and There’s Gonna Be Trouble,” and got busy as a character called Mahoney in Desperate Housewives.
In 2011, he notched his iCarly gig by playing Cort in an episode called “iHire an Idiot.” The role gave Danny a shot to act opposite Miranda Cosgrove and to go shirtless and show off his chiseled abs.
Thirteen years later, Danny, who also did voiceover work on iCarly, per imdb.com, is proud to reveal that he’s still got that washboard stomach. On The Valley, Nia mentions his “six-pack” abs. Danny corrects her, saying, “eight-pack.”
Guest roles by Danny on TV’s Shameless and The Goldbergs followed.
Danny’s acting roles in movies reach back to 2005, when he suited up as a football player in American Pie Presents: Band Camp. In 2006, he appeared in The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift.
Besides that toned physique, Danny boasts a distinct voice and that’s come in handy as a tool of the trade for the variety of voiceover acting gigs he’s had.
His credits include The Blind Side in 2009, X-Men: First Class in 2011, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One in 2011, Silver Linings Playbook in 2012, The Fault in Our Stars in 2014, Fantastic Four in 2015, and Deadpool in 2016.
Most recently he was a voice actor in 2023 in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, per IMDB.
Beyond big and small screens, Danny is deep into his real-life role as dad to his son, Asher, who was born on Nov. 10, 2021, and twin girls, Isabelle Marie and Zariah Rose, who were born on Fathers Day 2023.
Danny and Jax became fast friends, which is how he knows The Valley cast according to Bravo: “Danny and Jax met on a night out in L.A. and instantly clicked when they realized they were both raised in Michigan with similar values.”
Discover more about Danny Booko and his family and the whole cast of The Valley, which airs Tuesdays at 9 on Bravo. The show streams the next day on Peacock.
