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| Gale Harold | |
| Full Name |
Gale Morgan Harold III |
| Birth Date |
July 10, 1969 |
| Birth Place |
Decatur, Georgia, U.S. |
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Gale Morgan Harold III is an American actor best known for his roles on Queer as Folk, Desperate Housewives and Hellcats. He's currently playing Charles Meade in The Secret Circle.
Career[edit | edit source]
In 2000, Harold landed the controversial role of unapologetic gay man Brian Kinney, a central character on Showtime's popular gay drama Queer as Folk, a breakthrough performance that included a level of explicit gay male sex unusual for American television. Brian Kinney's character, as well as the show itself, elicited quite a great deal of controversy. It was alternately lauded and criticized for its explicit depictions of gay club life. The show ran for five successful seasons, ending in 2005.
Harold had the lead role of Special Agent Graham Kelton in the short-lived FOX series Vanished in 2006, but his character was killed off in the seventh episode and appeared only as a corpse in the eighth episode.
Harold also guest-starred as Wyatt Earp in two episodes of the HBO series Deadwood and appeared twice on the CBS series The Unit. Alongside childhood idol David Bowie, Gale is an associate producer of the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.
Gale Harold returned to the New York stage in Tennessee Williams' play Suddenly Last Summer on November 15, 2006, in the role of Dr. Cukrowicz (Dr. Sugar). Harold's co-stars in the Roundabout Theatre repertory production, a limited Off-Broadway engagement running through January 20, 2007, were Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino.
Harold was the male lead in the indie romantic comedy Falling for Grace, which debuted favorably at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (under working title East Broadway). Harold played an eligible New York bachelor in an inter-racial relationship with an Asian-American woman. The film screened at festivals, theaters and campuses in the U.S., China and Germany; it was released on DVD in March, 2010.
Gale appeared in November 2007 in a guest role on ABC's Grey's Anatomy as Shane, a paramedic and white supremacist with a swastika tattooed on his abdomen, who is injured in an ambulance crash.
Harold joined the cast of Desperate Housewives on the fourth season finale May 18, 2008 as Jackson Braddock, Susan Mayer's love interest. Six months after his serious motorcycle accident, Harold returned to play Jackson on the May 3, 2009 episode of the show.
In January and February 2010, Gale performed alongside Denise Crosby (Star Trek TNG) and ex-model Claudia Mason in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending at Theater/Theatre in Los Angeles. The production and cast received mostly positive reviews, with the Los Angeles Times calling his performance "brilliant" and adding "Harold, ideally cast, beautifully ignites with Crosby, whose unconventional interpretation is an affecting revelation."
In July 2010, it was announced at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour that Harold had accepted a recurring role as a law professor in the upcoming series Hellcats. Executive Producer Kevin Murphy said of him: "Oh my God, I was such a fan of his on Queer As Folk. He has the ability to be really, really wicked smart and also just really kind of sexy and immersive, and his character, he pulls you in. He’s a seducer and I think all the great lawyers are seducers."
Filmography
Films:[edit | edit source]
- 36K(2000)
- Mental Hygiene(2001)
- Particles Of Truth(2003)
- Rhinoceros Eyes(2003)
- Wake(2003)
- Fathers and Sons(2005)
- Martha Behind Bars(2005)
- The Unseen(2005)
- Life On The Ledge(2005)
- Falling For Grace(2006)
- Passenger Side(2009)
- Fertile Ground(2010)
- Rehab(2011)
Television:[edit | edit source]
- Queer As Folf(2000-2005)
- Street Time(2003)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit(2003)
- The Unit(2006)
- Deadwood(2006)
- Vanished(2006)
- Grey's Anatomy(2007)
- Desperate Housewives(2008-2009)
- CSI: NY(2010)
- Hellcats(2010-2011)
- The Secret Circle (2011-2012)
