About Joe Manganiello

Joseph Michael Manganiello was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He auditioned for the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama as a senior in high school. He was not accepted, but applied a year later and was one of seventeen students accepted into the program. Fresh out of college, he landed the role of Eugene “Flash” Thompson, Peter Parker’s nemesis in Spider-Man (2002), as his first acting job. Since then, Manganiello has picked up several roles in television and film including How I Met Your Mother, One Tree Hill, and Behind Enemy Lines (2009). His most notable role is Alcide Herveaux in HBO’s True Blood.