Danny Van Zandt
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| Daniel Van Zandt | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Gender |
Male |
| Eye color |
Brown |
| Hair color |
Black |
| Born |
1990 |
| Family |
Mr. Van Zandt (father) |
| Title(s) |
Danny |
| Behind the scenes | |
| Portrayer | |
Daniel 'Danny' Van Zandt (born 1990) is a Canadian student who attends Degrassi Community School. Danny is the brother of Liberty Van Zandt, and best friend of Derek Haig. He is portrayed by Dalmar Abuzeid.
[edit] Season 4
Danny is first introduced as Liberty's somewhat annoying, immature brother and one of JT's best friends. Danny's sister, Liberty, is in love with JT Yorke, but Danny and JT are friends. Danny is mad at JT for dating his sister and he thinks JT isn't good enough for Liberty. Danny said, "She's the smartest person in the school and you don't even have an IQ! You don't deserve her." Danny and JT fight and Liberty is mad at JT about the fighting. Danny feels sorry for his sister and makes sure that Liberty and JT make it up.
[edit] Season 5
Danny is the second one to find out that JT got Liberty pregnant, after toby. He gets mad at JT and is determined to make JT pay for his mistakes. He does that by making JT do his homework (including taking care of a baby for family planning). Later, Danny realizes that he should be supportive and does so.
[edit] Season 7
Peter, believing that him and Darcy had sex and not knowing what to do or who to tell, tells Danny and Derek. Since they can never keep a secret, they tell the whole school. Danny gets into a fight with Lucas (a Lakehust student) because Lucas insults JT by saying JT "asked for it" (the stabbing). After the fight, Derek and Danny get into an argument in Media Immersion, causing Darcy to tell them to be quiet. Mr. Simpson over hears and they all get detention. Later in the year Peter, Danny, Derek, and Lakehurst's Rachel work together on a "How to" video. Both Danny and Derek like Rachel and after she rejects Derek she asks Danny out. Derek comes over the next day saying that they need to "dump" Rachel because she rejected Derek. Derek then realizes after both Danny and Rachel have turtle neck sweaters on and then sees Danny's hickie and then claims that Danny "stole" Rachel form Derek ending their friendship. Derek tries to get even with Danny by putting panties into Danny's bag,making it look like he was going to steal them. When he is checked by the racist sells clerk and she finds the panties,he and Rachel make a run for it which gets Rachel upset. Later once Derek finds out that the woman was racist,he feels bad,remakes the video and ends up apologizing to him in front of the class in the project.
