Hello Upper East Side...

XoXo. Penn Badgley also known as Dan Humprey at CW hit series GOSSIP GIRL is all grown up. In the series, he is the least glam boy next door among the two other lead stars, Chuck Bass ( Ed Westwick ) and Nate Archibald ( Chace Crawford ). Nonetheless, he got the heart of Blake Lively. How's that?

Not to elaborate too much on this, he was born on November 1, 1986 at hello Baltimore, Maryland, studied acting and compeleted two years of credits at Santa Monica College. He started acting when he was 11 when he and his mom relocated in Hollywood, doing voice over jobs, some extra casting and finally landing a lead role in teen television series GG aired September 2007, the rest is history for Penn now.

He did his major film role in John Tucker Must Die and last year's the Stepfather.

Here are photos done by Mariano Vivanco's for February|March 2010 issue of Brit's Wonderland. He is really all grown up!

I LVoe!

source: homotography & mariano vivanco