Your Hunk of the Day: Joe Manganiello

Joe Manganiello by Carter Smith for GQ Magazine via Popbytes

Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiello (/ˌmæŋɡəˈnɛloʊ/ mang-gə-nel-oh; born December 28, 1976) is an American 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 played 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.

He has since split his time between True Blood and feature films such as the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike and the film What To Expect When You're Expecting. Aside from his work in film and television, Manganiello is active with several charities including Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the Los Angeles based "The Art of Elysium."