1. Gale Morgan Harold III was born on July 10,1969 and is an American actor, known for his leading and recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance.
32 Facts About Gale Harold
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Gale Harold starred in the romantic comedy Falling for Grace.
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Gale Harold's father was an engineer and his mother a real estate agent.
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Gale Harold began a Liberal Arts degree in romance literature, departing after a few months and moved to San Francisco, California to study photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Gale Harold worked a variety of jobs including construction, bartender, waiter, and apprentice motorcycle mechanic.
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Gale Harold dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute and relocated to Los Angeles, where he began a three-year period of intensive drama study.
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Gale Harold was accepted into the Actors Conservatory Program with the classical theater company A Noise Within.
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In 2000, Gale Harold was cast as Brian Kinney, a central character on Showtime's popular gay drama Queer as Folk.
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In 2003, Gale Harold starred in Wake, produced by Susan Landau Finch and directed by her husband Henry LeRoy Finch.
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Gale Harold had the lead role of Special Agent Graham Kelton in the short-lived FOX series Vanished in 2006.
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Gale Harold guest-starred as Wyatt Earp in two episodes of the HBO series Deadwood and appeared twice on the CBS series The Unit.
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Alongside David Bowie, Gale Harold was an associate producer of the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man.
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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.
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Gale Harold was the male lead in the indie romantic comedy Falling for Grace, which debuted favorably at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
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Gale Harold played an eligible New York bachelor in an interracial relationship with an Asian-American woman.
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Gale Harold appeared in November 2007 in a guest role on ABC's Grey's Anatomy as Shane, a paramedic and white supremacist who is injured in an ambulance crash.
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Gale Harold appeared in Desperate Housewives on the fourth season finale May 18,2008 as Jackson Braddock, Susan Mayer's love interest.
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Six months after a serious motorcycle accident, Gale Harold returned to play Jackson on the May 3,2009 episode of the show.
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In July 2010, it was announced at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour that Gale Harold had accepted a recurring role as a law professor in the upcoming series Hellcats.
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The series concluded its season with Gale Harold's character involved in an affair with the show's lead character Marti.
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Gale Harold played a scheming and powerful male witch who is the father of one of the teenagers.
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In 2011, Gale Harold was featured in two movies, Low Fidelity and Rehab, as one of the main characters.
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Gale Harold appeared on three episodes of the first season of the show Defiance.
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Gale Harold returned for a guest appearance in the second season of the show in the episode "Put the Damage On".
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In 2013, Gale Harold appeared in a short film, The Spirit Game.
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At the Rise 'n Shine Convention, Gale Harold said that he was currently working on a project about Civil War, Field of Lost Shoes.
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In 2014, Gale Harold participated in different projects including the short film, Thirst, which was directed by Rachel McDonald and premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on August 7,2014, and the film Echo Park, which premiered in the LA Film Festival on June 14,2014.
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In 2020, Gale Harold became a co-founder of Filmmakers First Fund, a Los Angeles-based film fund and studio space dedicated to artists with full-length narrative and documentary film projects in the early stages of development.
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On October 14,2008, Gale Harold was hospitalized at the LAC+USC Medical Center after a motorcycle accident.
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Gale Harold remained in critical condition after swelling of the brain was discovered as well as a fractured shoulder.
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Gale Harold was released from intensive care and returned to complete his role on Desperate Housewives.
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In 2014, Gale Harold filed a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, actress Danielle Saklofsky.