Gale Morgan Harold III was born on July 10, 1969 in Decatur, Georgia and grew up in what has has called a “bizarre Pentecostal” experience. Gale has a younger brother, and an older sister and has credited David Bowie, Jack London and Gandalf as his adolescent influences, but details about his upbringing are scarce as he has always been one to guard his privacy.

After graduating from Southwest Dekalb High School, Gale attended American University in Washington, D.C. on a soccer scholarship and began a Liberal Arts degree in romantic literature, but left the school after a year and a half due to conflicts with his coach. He then moved to California and began to study the fine arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. His interest there didn’t last long, however, and Gale left to pursue other options.

In 1997, his friend Susan Landau (daughter of actor Martin Landau) suggested Gale attempt stage acting. After he was introduced to actor and director, Joel E. Scheckel Gale moved to Los Angeles and began to study drama. At the age of 28, he was accepted into the Actors Conservatory Program with the classical theater company A Noise Within. His first theatrical performance was in a play titled, Me and My Friends in which he played “Bunny”. (In 2003, Susan would cast Gale in Wake, a movie in which she produced and her husband, Henry Leroy Finch would direct, and her father Martin Landau would have a cameo.)

Gale made his feature debut as Booker in Paul Scheuring’s ’36K’ and in 2000, landed the controversial role of Brian Kinney in Showtime’s upcoming new gay drama, Queer as Folk. The show debuted to both praise and criticism, but Gale and the character of Brian, earned an intensely loyal fanbase as the show grew in popularity. During his 2004 hiatus from Queer as Folk, Gale filmed ‘Life on the Ledge’ for director Lewis Helfer, in which he plays Chaz, a gangster who is enlisted to help protect Claire, a beautiful stripper with whom Brian (Lewis Helfer) has fallen in love. Gale also filmed ‘The Unseen’ in 2005, staring opposite Steve Harris for writer-director Lisa France. Harold and Harris play former childhood friends who have to face issues being on opposite sides of the racial hotbed in rural Georgia.

That same year, he filmed the indie interracial romance, East Broadway, with co-star and director Fay Ann Lee (which premiered during the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival), and wrapped the fifth and final season of Queer as Folk.

In 2006, Gale returned to television as the legendary Wyatt Earp in a two episode stint for the critically acclaimed HBO series, Deadwood. He also landed the lead role of Agent Graham Kelton, opposite Ming Na (ER) and John Allen Nelson (24) in the fall television drama, Vanished, which premiered in August on Fox, but departed the show after only seven episodes.

In September of 2006, it was announced that Gale would star opposite of Blythe Danner and Carla Cugino in the off Broadway play, Suddenly Last Summer.

That same year, Gale played the male lead in romantic comedy, Falling for Grace, which debuted favorably at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (under working title East Broadway and later, Social Grace). The movie was eventually released on DVD in March of 2010 after the writer and director, Fay Ann Lee was unable to find a distributor.

After a guest role in two episodes of Grey’s Anatomy as a white supremacist and paramedic, Gale was offered the role of Jackson Braddock, Susan Mayer’s new love interest, on ABC’s Desperate Housewives in 2007. Gale appeared in one episode of season 4, and multiple episodes in season 5 until a serious motorcycle accident forced the show to temporarily write his character out. Six months later, in 2009, Gale returned to the set, although Jackson and Susan’s storyline came to a natural conclusion by the end of the season.

Gale continued to work in theater, and in 2010, performed in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending at Theater/Theatre in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times called Gale’s performance “brilliant” and adding “Harold, ideally cast, beautifully ignites with Crosby, whose unconventional interpretation is an affecting revelation.”

That summer, Gale accepted a recurring role as a law professor in the upcoming CW series Hellcats. Executive Producer Kevin Murphy said of him: “Oh my God, I was such a fan of his on Queer As Folk. He has the ability to be really, really wicked smart and also just really kind of sexy and immersive, and his character, he pulls you in. He’s a seducer and I think all the great lawyers are seducers.” The series was cancelled after one season, freeing Gale up to accept a role on The CW’s upcoming drama, The Secret Circle, penned by Scream and Dawson’s Creek scribe, Kevin Williamson.

Gale’s previous film credits include roles in the indie features, ‘Rhinocerous Eyes’, directed by Aaron Woodley, ‘Particles of Truth’, directed by Jennifer Elster, ‘Wake’, directed by Roy Finch, and ’36K’ directed by Paul Scheuring. He has also guest starred on ‘Law and Order / SVU’ and ‘Street Time’.

Gale made his New York stage debut in the Off-Broadway production of Austin Pendleton’s “Uncle Bob.”

*Written by Claire/Sara and not for distribution.