Prior to cancellation, however, it was announced that Harold would be a regular in another prospective CW series, The Secret Circle, based on a trilogy of popular young adult novels.įollowing considerable buzz in the press, the CW picked up The Secret Circle for the fall of 2011.
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However, the series was cancelled after one season. He series concluded its season with Harold's character involved in a sexual affair with the show's lead character Marti (played by Aly Michalka). N July 2010, it was announced at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour that Harold had accepted a recurring role as a law professor in the upcoming series Hellcats. The production and cast received mostly positive reviews, with the Los Angeles Times calling his performance "brilliant" and adding "Harold, ideally cast, beautifully ignites with Crosby, whose unconventional interpretation is an affecting revelation. In January and February 2010, Gale performed alongside Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and ex-model Claudia Mason in Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending at Theater/Theatre in Los Angeles. Six months after a serious motorcycle accident, Harold returned to play Jackson on the episode of the show. Harold joined the cast of Desperate Housewives on the fourth season finale as Jackson Braddock, Susan Mayer's love interest. Harold appeared in November 2007 in a guest role on ABC's Grey's Anatomy as Shane, a paramedic and white supremacist with a swastika tattooed on his abdomen, who is injured in an ambulance crash. The film screened at festivals, theaters and campuses in the U.S., China and Germany it was released on DVD in March, 2010. Harold played an eligible New York bachelor in an inter-racial relationship with an Asian-American woman. Harold was the male lead in the indie romantic comedy Falling for Grace, which debuted favorably at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (under working title East Broadway). Harold's co-stars in the Roundabout Theatre repertory production, a limited Off-Broadway engagement running through January 20, 2007, were Blythe Danner and Carla Gugino. Gale Harold returned to the New York stage in Tennessee Williams' play Suddenly, Last Summer on November 15, 2006, in the role of Dr. Alongside childhood idol David Bowie, Gale is an associate producer of the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man. Harold also guest-starred as Wyatt Earp in two episodes of the HBO series Deadwood and appeared twice on the CBS series The Unit. Harold had the lead role of Special Agent Graham Kelton in the short-lived FOX series Vanished in 2006, but his character was killed off in the seventh episode and appeared only as a corpse in the eighth episode. In 2003, Harold starred in Wake, produced by Susan Landau Finch and directed by her husband Henry Leroy Finch. The play received mostly positive reviews and Harold made an auspicious debut on New York theatrical stage. The role of Josh was difficult and very different from the one he was playing in Queer as Folk. In 2000, Harold was cast as Brian Kinney, a central character on Showtime's popular gay drama Queer as Folk.ĭuring the summer-hiatus from Queer as Folk (between seasons one and two) Harold made his New York theatrical debut playing Josh in Uncle Bob along with George Morfogen. In his theatrical debut, Harold appeared as "Bunny" in Gillian Plowman's Me and My Friends. At 28, he was accepted into the Actors Conservatory Program with the classical theater company A Noise Within. He relocated to Los Angeles and began a 3-year period of intensive drama study. In 1997, a friend, Susan Landau, daughter of actor Martin Landau, suggested Harold try acting. He worked a variety of jobs including construction, bartender, waiter, and apprentice motorcycle mechanic and restorer. He began a Liberal Arts degree in romance literature, departing after a few months and moved to San Francisco, California to study photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. At age 15, he left the church.įollowing graduation from The Lovett School, Harold attended American University in Washington, DC, on a soccer scholarship. Because Harold's parents were devout Pentecostals, he had strict religious upbringing. His father was an engineer and his mother a real estate agent. He played the leading man in the indie hit film Falling for Grace. Gale Morgan Harold III (born July 10, 1969) is an American actor known for his leading and recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance. He is known for recurring roles on Queer as Folk, Deadwood, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, The Secret Circle and Defiance. Gale Morgan Harold III plays the role of Mathias Chamberlain in The Werewolf Diaries.