Danny McCarthy

A St. Louis native, Danny McCarthy attended the Webster Conservatory before relocating to Chicago to start his professional acting career.

Danny first gained on-screen notoriety for his recurring role as Special Agent Hale in FOX's hit series Prison Break, and for his featured role in AT&T's audience favorite "Dropped Call - The Butcher," which received the American Advertising Federation's National Gold Award, and the Cannes Lions TVC Bronze Award, among others. He was also featured as "The Brattender" in Johnsonville Brats' long-running and Effie Award-winning (Silver & Bronze) campaign.

Since then, Danny's profile has continued to rise with key roles in films including the 2024 Sundance breakout hit Good One, as well as The Exorcist: Believer, The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, Stronger, Elvis & Nixon, Killing Kennedy, The Drop, The Express, Fred Claus, Derailed, Proof, Flags of Our Fathers, Stranger Than Fiction, The Amityville Horror, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Danny's TV work includes recurring roles on CBS' Elsbeth, Elementary, and Blue Bloods, HBO's Somebody Somewhere and Boardwalk Empire, ABC's Betrayal, Boss for Starz, and MTV's Unemployed, as well as guest spots on Instinct, The Chicago Code, Chicago Fire, Detroit 1-8-7, and ER, among others.

A longtime company member at Chicago's acclaimed A Red Orchid Theatre, Danny's Broadway stage credits include the Tony-nominated The Minutes with Tracy Letts and Jessie Mueller, Aaron Sorkin's To Kill A Mockingbird with Jeff Daniels, The Iceman Cometh opposite Denzel Washington, and Grace with Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.

Off-Broadway, Danny appeared in Annie Baker's The Antipodes, and The Open House (Drama Desk Award Winner: Best Ensemble), and the world premiere of Kill Floor opposite Marin Ireland at Lincoln Center. Regional theater work includes The Minutes, The Flick, Middletown, The Pillowman, Take Me Out, and The Water Engine at Chicago's acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre, David Cromer's visionary A Streetcar Named Desire at Writer's Theater of Glencoe, and Circle Mirror Transformation at The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, where his performance earned him a Kevin Kline Award nomination for Best Actor.