Joseph Michael “Joe” Manganiello (/ËmæÅÉ¡ÉËnÉloÊ/ MANG-gÉ-NEL-oh; born December 28, 1976) is an American fitness author, director, producer, film and theatre actor. He holds a BFA in acting from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He played Flash Thompson in the original Spider-Man film series, and had various recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood for which he has garnered both popular and critical praise. In 2011, Manganiello was voted “Favorite Pop-Culture Werewolf of All Time” by the readers of Entertainment Weekly, and one of Men’s Health Magazine’s “100 Fittest Men of All Time,” alongside Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, Michael Phelps, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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