Dan Finnerty is an American actor and singer. Finnerty gained fame for his hilariously foul-mouthed rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as the wedding singer at Will Ferrell’s wedding in the movie Old School, directed by Todd Phillips.
Phillips continued to feature Dan, as the sleazy bat-mitzvah singer in Starsky & Hutch and again as the irreverent wedding singer in The Hangover.
Where did Dan Finnerty go to college and high school? Did Dan Finnerty go to film school?
Finnerty was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in the small town of Bath, New York. He attended Emerson College in Boston. He was a member of the hit off-Broadway show Stomp in New York City.
Finnerty is the lead singer of the cult hit comedy group he created called The Dan Band, which Entertainment Weekly dubbed “the hottest ticket in Hollywood.” The live show was filmed in Los Angeles as a one-hour concert special with Dan Finnerty & The Dan Band. I Am Woman on the Bravo channel, directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
