Robert Gant
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 Robert Gant at a 2009 GLAAD summer event |
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| Born | Robert John Gonzalez July 13, 1968 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, producer |
| Years active | 1994 –present |
Robert Gant (born Robert John Gonzalez; July 13, 1968) is an American actor. He is sometimes credited as Robert J. Gant.
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[edit] Early life
Gant was born in Tampa, Florida, of Spanish, Italian, Cuban, Irish, and English descent. He began acting in television commercials and joined the Screen Actors Guild at the age of ten in his home state of Florida. At the age of 11, he performed a soft-shoe routine with Bob Hope as part of Hope's USO tour.
He majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania and then attended law school at Georgetown University. It was his career as a lawyer that brought him to Los Angeles when he accepted a position with the LA office of Chicago-based Baker & McKenzie. The international firm's Los Angeles office was closed soon after. Rather than continue his career in the law, he decided to focus all of his time on acting.
Gant is involved in a number of philanthropic organizations with a great deal of focus going to the issue of aging in the gay community.
Gant currently resides in Los Angeles.
[edit] TV and film career
Between 2001 and 2005, Gant appeared on television in Showtime's Queer as Folk as Ben Bruckner, his best-known role to date.
In 2009, Gant appeared in Personal Affairs, a BBC Three-produced drama set in London's financial sector.[1]
Prior to Queer as Folk, he appeared in recurring roles in Popular and Caroline in the City. Other guest appearances on TV programs include Melrose Place, Ellen, Friends, and Nip/Tuck, among others.
He also appeared in the independent films Special Delivery, The Contract, Fits and Starts, and Marie and Bruce.
In 2007, Gant, Chad Allen and Judith Light acted and produced Save Me. The movie about the ex-gay movement was distributed by Mythgarden, the production company formed by Gant, Allen, and Christopher Racster in 2004.
In June 2004, Gant starred in the short film Billy's Dad is a Fudgepacker, a homage to 1950s educational films.
[edit] Activism
He supports such organizations as SAGE - Senior Advocacy for GLBT Elders and GLEH - Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing.
He supported Hillary Rodham Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination in 2008.
[edit] Works
[edit] Film credits
- Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait of James Dean -- Dir. Matthew Mishory
- Kiss Me Deadly (2008 film) -- Dir. Ron Oliver (also known as The Delphi Effect)
- Save Me -- Dir. Robert Cary
- Live -- (2007)
- Billy's Dad is a Fudgepacker (short) -- Dir. Jamie Donahue
- Marie and Bruce -- Dir. Tom Caims
- Fits and Starts -- Dir. Kevin Kelly
- Teaching Mrs. Tingle -- Dir. Kevin Williamson
- The Contract -- Dir. Steven Monroe
- Jane Street -- Dir. Vicangelo Bulluck
- Cityscrapes: Los Angeles -- Dir. Michael Becker
[edit] Television credits
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager -- Guest Star—ABC Family
- My Life Is An Experiment -- Recurring (Pilot) -- NBC
- Mike & Molly -- Guest Star—CBS
- 90210 -- Guest Star—The CW
- Hot in Cleveland -- Guest Star—TV Land
- Bones -- Guest Star—Fox
- CSI: Miami -- Guest Star—CBS
- Castle -- Guest Star—ABC
- Personal Affairs -- Star—BBC3
- Tracey Ullman's State of the Union -- Showtime
- CSI: NY -- Guest Star—CBS
- Rick & Steve the Happiest Gay Couple in All the World -- Guest voiceover—Logo
- Special Delivery(made for TV movie)(2008)-- Lifetime
- Mask of the Ninja -- (made for TV movie) 2008—SPIKE TV
- Nip/Tuck -- Guest Star—F/X
- Pepper Dennis -- Guest Star—WB
- The Closer -- Guest Star—Warner Bros./TNT
- Queer as Folk (Series 2+) -- Prof. Ben Bruckner -- Showtime
- Show and Tell (webisode) -- 2009 Himself
- Totally Gay -- Himself—VH-1
- Providence -- Guest Star—NBC
- V.I.P. -- Guest Star—Syndicated
- Popular -- Recurring—Touchtone/WBN
- Veronica's Closet -- Guest Star—Warner Bros./NBC
- Linc's -- Guest Star—Viacom/Showtime
- Rude Awakening -- Guest Star—Tristar/Showtime
- Becker -- Guest Star—Paramount/CBS
- Fantasy Island -- Guest Star—Tristar/ABC
- Caroline in the City -- Recurring—CBS Prod./NBC
- Style and Substance -- Guest Star—Disney/CBS
- Head Over Heels -- Guest Star—Tristar/UPN
- Fast Forward -- Series Regular (Pilot) -- Warner Bros./CBS
- Friends -- Guest Star—Warner Bros/NBC
- Life with Roger -- Guest Star—Warner Bros./WB
- Townies -- Guest Star—Carsey-Werner/ABC
- Hangin' With Mr. Cooper -- Guest Star—Warner Bros./Fox
- Melrose Place -- Guest Star—Spelling/Fox
- Silk Stalkings -- Guest Star—USA
- High Tide -- Guest Star—Segall Prod./US
- Step By Step -- Guest Star—Warner Bros./ABC
- Jim Bay -- Series Regular (Pilot) -- Universal/ABC
- My Wildest Dreams -- Guest Star—Sony/Fox
- Bitter Vengeance -- (1994 TV) --
- My So-Called Life -- Guest Star—ABC
- Ellen -- Guest Star—Disney/ABC
[edit] Theatre
- Working - The Iron Worker
- Taming of the Shrew (Uta Hagen's Acting Class) <DVD> - Petruchio
- Little Shop of Horrors - The Dentist (et al.)
- Grease - Danny Zuko; Kenicke
- Whose Life is it Anyway? - John
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Neville Landless / Victor Grinstead
- The Mikado - Koko
[edit] Producer filmography
- Save Me (2007)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- The official Robert Gant website
- Robert Gant at the Internet Movie Database
- Gantastic - America (The official Robert Gant fansite)
- Something Positive: A Robert Gant fanlisting
