Robert Gant

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Robert Gant (born Robert John Gonzalez; July 13, 1968) is an American actor.

On the showtime series Queer as Folk, Ben Bruckner came out explicitly as gay.

Early life and education

At the age of ten, Gant began working in television commercials in Florida and became a member of the Screen Actors Guild at the age of 11.

With the American Musical Theatre Company in Tampa, Florida, Gant studied tap and jazz dance. As part of Hope's USO tour, he performed a soft-shoe routine at MacDill Air Force Base with comedian Bob Hope.

Gant majored in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania, emphasizing both Shakespeare and poetry. He appeared in musicals, including in The Mysteries of Edwin Drood and Neville Landless in The Mysterious Book of Horrors and In The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as well as acting in the school's Penn Film Foundation film Movements.

Gant obtained his Juris Doctor degree at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1993. Gant was also a member of the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and he appeared in a number of its productions. The MetroGnomes, a six-man cappella group, formed in Washington, D.C., and appeared in concerts around Washington, D.C.

Gant joined the Los Angeles office of Baker McKenzie, a Chicago-based multinational law firm. When the firm's Los Angeles office closed shortly afterwards, Gant decided to pursue his lifelong passion of acting and performing.

Personal life

In an interview published by The Advocate magazine, Gant came out as gay in 2002.

Services & Advocacy for LGBT Elders (SAGE) and Gay & Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH) are two organizations that support LGBT Elders (SAGE) and Lesbian Elder Housing (GLEH). In addition, Gant has been active politically, appearing at Howard Dean presidential campaign functions.

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Career

In Showtime's television series Queer as Folk, Gant is well-known as Professor Ben Bruckner. In the first legal gay marriage depicted on American television, his appearance was depicted.

In the film Kiss Me Deadly, which was shot on location in New Zealand, Gant portrayed television's first gay spy.

Melissa Benoist's Kryptonian father Zor-El on Supergirl, Todd Crimsen on Netflix's 13 Reasons Why, and Jim Hunter on The Fosters and its spin-off series Good Trouble. Prior to Queer as Folk, Gant recurred as Principal Calvin Krupps in Ryan Murphy's first television series, Popular, as Caroline's boyfriend Trevor in Caroline in the City.

Gant has appeared on television show Friends, where he played one of two men Phoebes simultaneously. Matt Battaglia, a recurring Queer as Folk actor, portrayed the other man Phoebe dates on the show. Gant guest appeared in Melrose Place, Becker, several CSI-related shows, Caroline in the City, and Criminal Minds.

In 2004, Gant appeared in Billy's Dad is a Fudgepacker, an homage to 1950s educational films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Gant was a series regular in the BBC 3-produced drama Personal Affairs, set in London's financial market and shot on location in both London and Scotland in 2005. In a typically all-British cast, Gant was the sole American in the otherwise all-British cast. In 2013, he played Captain Robert Norton in Dead Space 3, the third installment of Electronic Arts' popular Dead Space video game collection.

Gant was a production partner for Mythgarden, Inc. It's a 2007 feature film Save Me, a drama set against the backdrop of an ex-gay ministry starring Gant, Judith Light and Chad Allen, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Milada Horáková, the Czech politician who was executed by the Communist government in 1950, also co-produced, co-wrote, and appeared in the Netflix-distributed period drama Milada.

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