Anthony Padilla

Daniel Anthony Padilla ( ; born September 16, 1987) is an American internet personality, filmmaker, host, and actor. He gained prominence for co-founding the YouTube comedy collective Smosh with Ian Hecox, where he wrote, directed, and starred in sketch comedy videos with Hecox from 2005 to 2017, and announced his return to the channel in 2023. Outside of Smosh, Padilla hosts a series of interviews titled I Spent a Day With..., where he interviews fellow Internet celebrities, as well as survivors of crime and natural disasters. Padilla made his film debut in Smosh: The Movie in 2015 and had a voice role in The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and its 2019 sequel. Early life Daniel Anthony Padilla was born on September 16, 1987, in Sacramento, California and is a native of Carmichael, California. His father is of Filipino and Spanish descent and his mother is German. His parents separated when he was two, and he was raised mostly by his mother alongside his two younger half-brothers. As his mother has severe agoraphobia, she was unable to work or even leave the family home, resulting in the family surviving off food stamps and Padilla taking on a great deal of responsibility from an early age, especially after his grandmother, who was the primary caretaker of the family, died. He graduated from Del Campo High School and attended American River College for two years before dropping out due to the success of Smosh. Career