Robert Gant

Infobox actor
name = Robert Gant


caption = Actor Robert Gant, 2005
birthname = Robert González
birthdate = Birth date and age|1968|7|13
birthplace = Tampa, Florida, U.S.

Robert Gant (born Robert González on July 13, 1968, in Tampa, Florida, U.S.) is an American actor. He is sometimes credited as Robert J. Gant.

Biography

Gant began acting in television commercials and joined the Screen Actors Guild at the age of ten in his home state of Florida. He attended undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania and law school at Georgetown University. While studying law, he never gave up on his true passion, acting, and performed in numerous theatrical productions. It was his career as a lawyer that brought him to Los Angeles when he accepted a position with the world's largest law firm; the firm's Los Angeles office was closed soon after, so he decided to focus all of his time on acting.

Since 2001, Gant has appeared on television in Showtime's "Queer as Folk" as Ben Bruckner, his best-known role to date. Prior to "Queer as Folk", he appeared on the WB's "Popular" and on NBC's "Caroline in the City". Gant has made guest appearances on TV programs such as "Friends", "Veronica's Closet", "Becker", "Melrose Place", "Ellen", "Providence", and "Nip/Tuck". He also appeared in the independent films "The Contract", "Fits and Starts" and "Marie and Bruce", starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick.

In June 2004, Gant, along with actress Cady Huffman (star of Broadway play "The Producers"), filmed "Billy's Dad is a Fudgepacker". The short film is an homage to 1950s educational films.

Activism

In 2003, Robert received a special civil rights award presented to him in New York's City Hall. Other recipients were Sharon Gless, and Gale Harold, also of "Queer as Folk", along with "Chicago" director Rob Marshall, Shirley MacLaine, and Steven Daldry. In 2004, Robert, along with other members of the "Queer as Folk" cast, were honored by The National Stonewall Democrats for creating, and presenting, positive and loving gay families in all their variations. In May of that same year (2003), The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) honored Robert at their annual NGLTF Leadership Awards in Washington, D.C; and in 2006, The Human Rights Campaign presented Robert with the National Equality Award at the 11th Annual Nashville Rights Campaign Equality Dinner.

His time in Hollywood is not limited to acting, however. Along with producing partners Chad Allen, and Christopher Racster, Robert has started the film and television production company, "Mythgarden". They have optioned a slate of initial projects, each with varying degrees of gay-focused content, and are developing a number of other films and television shows.

While he gives time to a number of philanthropic and political causes, Gant's “torch issue” is that of aging in the gay community. He supports such organizations as SAGE (Senior Advocacy for GLBT Elders) and GLEH (Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing). He is also developing a website devoted entirely to gay elders and matters that affect them.

He supported Hillary Rodham Clinton in her bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.

As of 2007, Gant resides in Los Angeles.

He is set to co-star with Lisa Edelstein & Brenda Song in Special Delivery, a Lifetime Movie Network Original Movie airing in late 2008.

Film credits

*" Special Delivery " (2008) -- Nate Spencer
*"Live" -- (2007)
*"Save Me" -- Dir. Robert Cary
*"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

Television credits

*"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
*"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

Talk show appearances

*"The Sharon Osbourne Show" (2004)
*"Open Mike With Mike Bullard" (2004)
*"Jawbreaker (talk show)|Jawbreaker" (2004)
*"Dennis Miller Live" (1985), April (2004)
*"Larry King Live" (2002)

Radio interviews

*Leeza Gibbons radio show -- "Leeza Live" -- June 13th, 2006
*Sirius Satellite Radio -- "John McMullen Show" -- June 9, 2006
*Air America -- "Politically Direct" -- August 7, 2005
*Party 93.1FM -- "Issues Over The Rainbow" -- March, 2004

Theatre

*"Working" - The Iron Worker
*"Taming of the Shrew (Uta Hagen's Acting Class - 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

Producer filmography

*"Elliot Loves" (2007) (pre-production)
*"Save Me" (2007)

Training

*Howard Fine Master Class

Magazine interviews

*"Out & About Newspaper", April, 2006
*"Instinct Magazine", November, 2005
*"The Advocate", November, 2005
*"POPrepublic", January 13, 2005
*"PlanetOut", January, 2005
*"Catalina magazine, July, 2004)
*"Windy City Times", April 21, 2004
*"Metro Weekly", May 29, 2003
*"The Advocate", April 15, 2003
*"Paper" August, 2002
*"Out (magazine)", March, 2002

Articles

*"People En Español", November, 2005
*"People", June 27, 2005
*"Back Stage West", June 16, 2005
*"New York Post", May 25, 2005
*"Out", May, 2005
*"Estylo", August, 2004
*"Houston Chronicle", June 23, 2004
*"People En Español", June, 2004
*"Aventura", May, 2004
*"Boston Herald", April 18, 2004
*"Mercury News", April, 2004
*"Zap2it", April, 2004
*"USA Today", January 12, 2004
*"DNA", January, 2004
*"Valley Magazine", June, 2003
*"The Advocate", November 12, 2002
*"Florida International Magazine", June, 2002

Magazine cover photos

*"The Advocate", July 6, 2004
*"Out (magazine)", April, 2004
*"The Advocate", April 15, 2003
*"Out", December, 2002
*"The Advocate", August 20, 2002

Organizations

Gant supports these organizations:
* [http://www.sageusa.org/ SAGE - Senior Advocacy for GLBT Elders]
* [http://www.gleh.org/ GLEH - Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing]

Trivia

*At the age of eleven, he performed a soft-shoe routine with Bob Hope as part of Hope's USO tour.
*Robert guest starred on "Friends" on the episode where Matt Battaglia the secondary star on Queer As Folk (US) guest starred also. Robert portrayed Jason, the sensitive man Phoebe Buffay dates.

External links

* [http://www.robertgant.com/ The official Robert Gant website]
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* [http://www.squidge.org/gantfans/ Gantastic - America] (The official Robert Gant fansite)
* [http://fans.papervixen.net/robert/main.php Something Positive: A Robert Gant fanlisting]