Dan Bucatinsky is an award-winning actor as well as a writer, producer and best-selling author. He is also a very good human.

As an actor, Dan can be seen with Matt Damon and Jason Bateman in the Amazon feature, Air, directed by Ben Affleck – as well as the indie comedy Grotto opposite Betsy Brandt.

Television audiences most recently saw him as Lewis in ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty and recurring on the latest seasons of How I Met Your Father and Chicago Med.

He’s best known for his Emmy-winning role as ‘James Novak’ on the hit Shonda Rhimes series, Scandal.

Other film credits include the JLo starred Second Act and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed The Post with Meryl Streep. Dan was a regular on the Fox reboot 24: Legacy and NBC's comedy Marry Me and guested on such shows as Grace & Frankie, Superstore, The Good Doctor, Grey’s Anatomy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Will and Grace and Friends.  

Dan will soon be seen in the upcoming third season of HBO’s Emmy-nominated Hacks.
 
As a writer, in addition to writing over a dozen pilots, Dan was a Consulting Producer on Grey’s Anatomy for two seasons, and a Co-Executive Producer on NBC's dramedy, Lipstick Jungle. 

In 2003, he and producing partner, Lisa Kudrow, founded “Is Or Isn’t Entertainment”, which produced the Emmy-nominated cult comedy, The Comeback for HBO both in 2005 and again in 2014, as well as Fox Television’s 25 Words or Less, hosted by Meredith Vieira. The company, along with writer/director Don Roos, also created the Emmy nominated web to television comedy Web Therapy with Kudrow, Dan is a long-time Executive Producer of the Emmy-winning docu-series Who Do You Think You Are?, which returned to NBC last season. 

His most avid fans remember him as the writer, producer and star of the hit, indie romantic comedy, All Over the Guy which was released by Lionsgate Films in 2001.

 
Bucatinsky is the author of the best-selling book, Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight which he also narrated as an audiobook for Audible.  

He resides in Los Angeles with his husband, filmmaker Don Roos, and their two kids.