David Paul Boreanaz (/bÉ"Ë riˈÉ'Ë nÉ™s/; born May 16, 1969) is an
American actor, television producer, and director, known for playing
the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on Buffy the
Vampire Slayer (1997â€"2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999â€"2004); FBI
Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural
comedy-drama series Bones (2005â€"2017); and Jason Hayes in the
military drama series SEAL Team (2017â€"present).Boreanaz was born on
May 16, 1969, in Buffalo, New York, where his father, Dave Roberts
(born David Thomas Boreanaz), was working as a weather forecaster and
children's show (Rocketship 7) host as Dave Thomas, for ABC affiliate
WKBW-TV. His mother, Patti Boreanaz, was a travel agent. He has two
older sisters, Bo and Beth. He is of Italian and Slovenian descent on
his father's side (the surname Boreanaz is of Slovenian origin and was
originally spelled "Borjanac"). His mother is of half Slovak and part
Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent.When Boreanaz was seven years
old, the family moved to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area after
his father took a job at WPVI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia.
Boreanaz was raised Catholic and attended Rosemont School of the Holy
Child at Rosemont, Pennsylvania and then high school at Malvern
Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he was a keen
athlete and played on the school football team. He graduated from
Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, in 1991 with a degree in cinema
and photography.
American actor, television producer, and director, known for playing
the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on Buffy the
Vampire Slayer (1997â€"2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999â€"2004); FBI
Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural
comedy-drama series Bones (2005â€"2017); and Jason Hayes in the
military drama series SEAL Team (2017â€"present).Boreanaz was born on
May 16, 1969, in Buffalo, New York, where his father, Dave Roberts
(born David Thomas Boreanaz), was working as a weather forecaster and
children's show (Rocketship 7) host as Dave Thomas, for ABC affiliate
WKBW-TV. His mother, Patti Boreanaz, was a travel agent. He has two
older sisters, Bo and Beth. He is of Italian and Slovenian descent on
his father's side (the surname Boreanaz is of Slovenian origin and was
originally spelled "Borjanac"). His mother is of half Slovak and part
Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent.When Boreanaz was seven years
old, the family moved to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area after
his father took a job at WPVI-TV, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia.
Boreanaz was raised Catholic and attended Rosemont School of the Holy
Child at Rosemont, Pennsylvania and then high school at Malvern
Preparatory School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he was a keen
athlete and played on the school football team. He graduated from
Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, in 1991 with a degree in cinema
and photography.
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