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Main Movie Roles 2009 - Passenger Side

BIOGRAPHY:

Gale Harold was born and raised around Atlanta, Georgia. Attended American University in Washington, D.C. on a soccer scholarship, eventually leaving to study Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. Susan Landau Finch, daughter of actor Martin Landau and producer for Francis Ford Coppola, convinced him to take acting lessons.


TRIVIA:

• Worked as a carpenter and motorcycle mechanic before being cast in _"Queer as Folk" (2000)_ (qv).
• Began acting at the age of 28.
• In 2007, two years after Queer as Folk went off the air, Harold and Randy Harrison's characters Brian and Justin won an only poll sponsored by the website Gay.com to choose TV's "Favorite Gay Couple." They won in a landslide, with 35% of the on-line vote.
• Has an older sister and a younger brother.
• Was raised in a Pentecostal household.
• Avid reader of The Nation magazine.
• Calls the city of Toronto his home.
• Attended South West Dekalb High School and The Lovett School.