David Boreanaz (/ˌbɔːriˈɑːnəz/; 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 (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017) and Jason Hayes in the military drama series SEAL Team.\n', '

Boreanaz was born on May 16, 1969, in Buffalo, New York, where his father, Dave Roberts (né 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 Slovene descent on his father\'s side (the surname Boreanaz is of Slovenian origin and was originally spelled "Borjanac" or "Berginc"). His mother is of half Slovak and part Irish, German, French, and Swiss descent.\n', '

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. He graduated from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, in 1991 with a degree in cinema and photography. While in high school he was a keen athlete and played on the school football team.\n', '

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