Gabriel Olds

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Gabriel Olds
Born	New York, New York, U.S.
Awards won Other Awards LA Weekly Theater Awards, Best Actor, winner 2007 "Tryst" Ticketholder Awards, Best Actor, nominated 2007 "Tryst" LA Drama Critics Circle Awards, Best Actor, winner 2007 "Tryst"

Gabriel Olds is an actor and freelance writer. He is the son of poet Sharon Olds.

Contents 1 Acting career 2 Writing career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Acting career

Gabriel began acting at age 15 at The Public Theater in New York^[1]. Soon after, he was cast in "14 Going on 30" (ABC, 1988), a two-part "Disney Sunday Movie" with an age-shifting plot, similar to "Big" ^[2]. In 1992, Olds was hired by Dick Wolf for an episode of "Law & Order," where Olds played a hyper-ambitious student who murders his father^[3].

In 1993, Olds made his Broadway debut with the drama "Any Given Day"^[4], a prequel to the Pulitzer Prize winning The Subject Was Roses. Olds took time off from Yale University to perform in the show. Soon after, Olds was cast in the Penny Marshall produced film "Calendar Girl," a nostalgic take on the teen road trip. Back at Yale, Olds starred in and directed the rarely-performed Shakespearean drama "Richard II", to positive notices^[5]. More work followed, with a supporting role in John Frankenheimer's Civil War prison camp miniseries "Andersonville" (TNT), and work on "Party of Five" (Fox), "Sisters" (NBC) and a well-reviewed ^[6] appearance in "Charmed."

Soon after, Olds went back to Broadway, co-starring in Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge" at the Roundabout Theater^[7], which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Olds was well-received[1] [2] as Rodolpho, an illegal immigrant who stays with Eddie Carbone (Anthony LaPaglia, Tony-winner for this performance) and falls in love with Catherine (Brittany Murphy, in her Broadway debut).

Soon after, Olds took a supporting role opposite Billy Crudup in the track and field-themed Steve Prefontaine biopic Without Limits. In 2000, "Law & Order" producer Dick Wolf, who'd worked with Olds before, offered him the lead role in The WB's political drama, "D.C. (TV series)". The actor was hired to play Mason Scott, a privileged idealist with a pragmatic roommate (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), and a flaky twin sister (Jacinda Barrett).^[8]

Olds then went onto playing a sexually deluded actor in the independent drama Urbania (2000). Other credits include "E-Ring," "Commander in Chief (TV series)," "Six Feet Under," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Law and Order: SVU," "Numb3rs," and "Medium (TV series)."^[9] Olds also played the role of "Ed" the Tommy Lee Jones film, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada^[10], (winner of two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, 2005), though his scenes were deleted.

In 2007, Olds filmed two television pilots, Conspiracy (TV pilot) (Lifetime), and Winters (TV pilot) (NBC). The latter was executive produced by David Shore, creator of House, M.D.. In the same year, Olds starred in the two-person, LA stage production of "Tryst," at the Black Dahlia Theater, which got him rave reviews[3] [4], 6 nominations^{[11] [12] [13]}, and 2 wins for Best Actor from LA Weekly^[14] and the LADCC ^[15].

[edit] Writing career

Gabriel writes screenplays and freelance journalism for Glamour and salon.com. He's written about flying after 9/11 [5] and dating in LA.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Gabriel Olds at the Internet Movie Database
• Gabriel Olds at the Internet Broadway Database
• Demo Reel (acting) on YouTube [6]
• Now Casting - Gabriel Olds Pics and Bio [7]
• Article for salon.com [8]