---
name: "Dan Perrault"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-perrault"
fi1m_id: "dan-perrault"
imdb_id: "nm4285995"
tmdb_id: 1699223
wikidata_id: "Q110654520"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 April 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T17:05:20.692752+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dan Perrault

## Identity

Dan Perrault

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-perrault
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-perrault
- **IMDb ID:** nm4285995
- **TMDB ID:** 1699223
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110654520
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Perrault, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110654520, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4285995/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1699223

Writer. Born 19 April 1981 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 April 1981, Hingham, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Perrault, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110654520, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4285995/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1699223

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Residence*](https://film.one/tv/the-residence.md) (62)
- **Peacock:** [*Strays*](https://film.one/film/strays.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dan Perrault is an American writer, producer and actor. He was born on 19 April 1981 in Hingham, Massachusetts, and graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in acting.

In 2011 he co-founded the production company Woodhead Entertainment with writing partner Tony Yacenda and producing partner Sean Carrigan. Perrault co-created, wrote and executive-produced the Netflix mockumentary series *American Vandal* (2017–2018) with Yacenda; the series won a Peabody Award. He later co-created, wrote and executive-produced the Paramount+ series *Players* (2022) with Yacenda.

Perrault wrote and produced the comedy film *Strays* (2023), in which he also acted, and appeared as Colin Trask in the Netflix series *The Residence* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvinsider.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Crime 101* (2026), Fi1m 67, as Arthur — [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *The Residence* (2025), Fi1m 62, as Colin Trask — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-residence.md)
- *Strays* (2023), Fi1m 60, as Dr. Hagen — [page](https://film.one/film/strays.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat* (2026), series, as Dan P.
- *Love Language* (2026), Actor
- *Crime 101* (2026), as Arthur — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/crime-101.md)
- *Redux Redux* (2025), as Officer Hurd
- *The Residence* (2025), series, as Colin Trask — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-residence.md)
- *Strays* (2023), as Dr. Hagen · Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/strays.md)
- *Players* (2022), series, as Paul 'BigNPaul' Gilberstadt · Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *For Heaven's Sake* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *American Vandal* (2017), series, as American Fandal Doug, Drew Pankratz DM Voice (voice) · Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Caper* (2014), series, Actor
- *Timmy Muldoon and the Search for the Shadoweyes Bandit* (2013), as Officer Bill
- *The Box* (2009), as The Valet (uncredited)
- *Fight for '84*, Actor
- *The People v. Gorilla Grodd*, series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator

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