Robert Gant

Robert Gant
Robert Gant at a 2009 GLAAD summer event
Born	Robert John Gonzalez (1968-07-13) 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.

Early life

Gant was born in Tampa, Florida, of Spanish, Italian, Cuban, Irish, and English descent. He was raised Baptist.^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

Prior to Queer as Folk, he appeared in recurring roles in Popular and Caroline in the City. Other guest appearances on television programs include Melrose Place, Ellen, Friends and Nip/Tuck, among others.

He plays the role of the Famous Director in the 2012 feature film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean. In 2011, Gant made a cameo appearance in season 1, episode 8 of TV Land's Happily Divorced.

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 Fudge-Packer, an homage to 1950's educational films.

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.

Credits

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

Filmography

References

1. ↑ http://didoqaf.tripod.com/articles/gant_advocate7.htm
2. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/personalaffairs/

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