- Battled a severe heroin addiction in his early adulthood which he eventually overcame and has been sober ever since.
- Is a big fan of classic horror and monster films.
- Has twice portrayed a disciple of the popular Batman villain the Joker. First, in 2008's The Dark Knight, as a henchman of Heath Ledger's iconic iteration of the classic character. Then in Season 3 of Gotham he plays Dwight, the leader of a cult inspired by Cameron Monahan's TV version of the clown prince of crime.
- David Dastmalchian was preparing to play college football on the east coast when he received an unexpected scholarship to study acting in Chicago.
- Attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago.
- David went to Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, KS.
- His father Hossein was an Iranian-American engineer and his mother Pam (nee Erie) was of English, Irish, Italian, and French descent.
- Has various comic book adaptations in his filmography as he has appeared as Kurt in Marvel's Ant-Man (2015), as one of the Joker's henchman in DC's The Dark Knight (2008), and as Dwight Pollard in the TV series, Gotham (2014).
- He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Dark Knight (2008).
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