Patrick and Falconer welcomed Daniel on Oct. 20, 1967. “I loved Daniel when he was little, and when he was a baby, I loved holding him. It was fantastic,” Patrick told about his firstborn’s infancy. Daniel grew up in the world of theater — his dad is an actor, and his mom is a dancer and choreographer. He mentioned on the Grit podcast in 2021 that his “parents’ dinner parties, now, are a who’s who of the British theater aristocracy.

In a 2012 interview with the U.K.’s Metro newspaper, Daniel said that his dad “was very good at exposing his children to the artistic world,” playing them classical music and ensuring they had access to books. This exposure extended to rock music as well, with Patrick gifting his son Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here after Daniel bought Sham 69’s The Kids Are United. Daniel attended a rural school outside of Stratford-upon-Avon, England, where his dad worked with The Shakespeare Theatre Company, and later attended The Latymer School in West London, which had a “thespian bent,” according to Metro. The same year Patrick began Star Trek: The Next Generation, Daniel started drama school at the California Institute of the Arts.