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 and producer, Dan is currently shooting the highly-anticipated third and final season of HBO’s The Comeback. He can also be seen in the most recent, fourth season of the Emmy-award winning HBO series Hacks with Jean Smart. He recently appeared opposite Lindsay Lohan and Kristin Chenoweth in the Netflix romcom Our Little Secret. He also stars in the upcoming indie thriller Highest Stakes along with Seth Green and Kevin Dillion for Paramount. Dan can also be seen with Matt Damon and Jason Bateman in the Amazon feature, Air, directed by Ben Affleck – and the indie comedy Grotto opposite Betsy Brandt, currently on Amazon and other platforms.

Television audiences know him as Lewis in ABC’s The Baker and the Beauty, How I Met Your Father, The Comeback and Chicago Med. But 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.  

As a writer, in addition to penning over a dozen pilots, Dan was a Consulting Producer on the Nathan Lane multi-cam MidCentury Modern as well as 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 in 2005, again in 2014, and the final season for 2026. They also were behind the Fox syndicated game show 25 Words or Less, hosted by Meredith Vieira which is in its seventh season. The company, along with writer/director Don Roos, created the Emmy-nominated comedy Web Therapy starring Kudrow and Bucatinsky. And the duo are long-time Executive Producers of the Emmy-winning docu-series Who Do You Think You Are?, which was on the air for ten seasons.

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, autobiographical journey of parenthood: Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?

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