Gale Morgan Harold III was born on July 10, 1969 and grew up in a little town, named Decatur Southwest Atlanta. Second born of three kids, Gale has a younger brother and an older sister. We have no information about his parents, as Gale is a very reserved person and doesn’t like to share his private life publicly. The only thing we know about his family is that they are Pentecostal. Gale had never dreamed of acting on stage or playing on TV, one day; he was interested in soccer, in playing his guitar and mostly in his strongest passion: motorbikes. As a matter of fact, Gale loves collecting old motorbikes, especially Italian ones, and renovating them; he adores the Ducati, and he often reads The Nation. He also has a tattoo on the inner side of his right hand’s middle finger, but nobody knows what is the meaning of that word, “RESIST”.

Gale’s life has been greatly influenced by David Bowie, Gandalf, the mythical character created by J.R.R. Tolkien, in “The Lord of the Rings” and Jack London. Gale started his studies at the SouthWest Dekalb High school and, after he got a soccer scholarship, thanks to his talent in that sport, he attended the American University in Washington D.C. specializing in romantic literature.
Unfortunately the differences between him and his soccer coach forced Gale to abandon the University and move to San Francisco, where he started the study of fine arts at the Fan art Institute and got a degree in photography.

Very soon Gale realized that the path he’d chosen was not the right one for him and therefore changed his plans. In 1997 his friend and compatriot, "Suzy Landau", a producer for Francis Ford Coppola (Dracula), realizing Gale’s acting talent, convinced him to try and act on stage. She introduced him to Joan E. Scheckel and Gale soon relocated to Los Angeles, starting a 3 years period of dramatic study and deep self-exploration

At the age of 28, Gale was accepted to and completed the “Actors Conservatory” at the Noise Theater company.
His debut saw him as “Bunny” in “Me and my friend” at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and this was also the beginning of his serious studies to become an actor.

"When I saw Marian Seldes” in The play about the Baby, Gale says,“she made me realize what it means to be on stage. That feeling of communication is what pulled me from working with two-dimensional visual arts into the Theater’s world.”
The same world brought various performances to Gale, for example in Cymbeline and The Misanthrope, while he completed his program in the acting school in LA.
Gale’s other important theater credits, in the same period, are: Miss Julie, Sweet Bird of youth, Long Day's Journey Into Night and The importance of being Ernest. In 1998, he performed as La Turista (the female tourist)  in "La Indian Queen", distantly related to a 17th century British baroque opera, at the Long Beach Opera House.

Some time later Gale joined the cast of the new television show “Queer as Folk”, playing the character of Brian Kinney and getting himself known at Showtime and on television. Then, he landed a lead role in “36K” and a little extra role in “Mental Hygiene” getting himself known in the movie scene too. In 2001 Gale filmed Wake, a movie directed by Roy Finch, and in 2002 he worked on Rhinoceros Eyes, an independent film directed by Aaron Woodley, in which he played the role of a detective.

With Jennifer Elster, he starred in the beautiful movie “Particles of Truth” that clearly showed his talent as an actor. In Summer 2004 he also worked, along with Ms. Elster and her husband, Lewis Helfer, on another movie called Life on the Ledge, a dark comedy filmed in New York City, in which he played a gangster. The year 2004 was definitely very intense for Gale; in fact, in the same year he played in other movies, some of them arranged by Showtime. The first one was Fathers and Sons, which was screened at the “Sarasota Film Festival” in January 2005; then came “The Unseen”, filmed near Atlanta, and “East Brodway” (formerly “Social Grace” and ultimately titled Falling for Grace) initially directed by B.D. Wong and afterwards directed by Fay Ann Lee, who is also Gale’s costar.

Another thing worth mentioning is Uncle Bob, a play that took place in 2001 and saw Gale performing, during the summerhiatus from “Queer as Folk”, in the difficult role of John, a character very different from Brian, the one he played in the TV show.

In September, 2005 Gale appeared in a TV movie titled Martha Behind Bars, that aired on CBS.

Very recently, Gale has been the associate producer of a documentary about Scott Walker titled: "Scott Walker: 30th century man”. In addition to this, we saw Gale going back on television with a guest appearance in “The Unit” (CBS) and a leading role in “Deadwood” (HBO) and “Vanished” (20th Century Fox).

Before landing his role in “Queer as Folk”, Gale has done a lot of different jobs, such as the carpenter; he loves Toronto so much that he refers to it as his home, and his favorite designer is Patrick Antosh, who’s been the costume designer in “Queer as Folk”. “I like to shop with the wardrobe designer for the show because he knows all the right spots. It's fun to kill a few hours going through piles of arcane stuff that fires me up but that I would probably never wear,” said Gale, while Patrick added that every time they go out shopping together “we spend more time talking and eating Sushi.”

Gale is a sensitive person, he’s intelligent and very shy even if, judging by his role in “Queer as Folk”, this could seem unbelievable. Unfortunately there aren’t many news about him because he’s really reserved and doesn’t talk about himself easily; he loves talking about his job though, because he cares a lot about it. We hope we’ll be able to get to know him better one day.

December 2006 update: On October 20, 2006, Gale made his debut in New York with the play "Suddenly Last Summer", upon which was based the 1959’s homonymous movie with Elizabeth Taylor. It would seem that after leaving the TV show “Vanished”, Gale decided to go back to perform on stage, something that, he said, is really satisfying for him.

February 2007 update: In February 2007, Gale attended the Berlin festival as a producer along with director Kijak, to present the documentary “Scott Walker: 30th Century Man”. It looks like Gale Harold has a real fondness for Walker and, as a matter of fact, he and Kijak meet often to talk about him and his music.
June 2007 update: On June 22, 2007 Gale attended the 8th annual Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame Night in Hollywood, Los Angeles (CA).

December 2007 update: Gale landed a guest star role in the TV show “Grey’s Anatomy”. His character was a white supremacist paramedic injured in the crash between two ambulances. The episode is divided in two parts and the title is “Crash into me”.
October 2008 Update: On May 18^th, 2008, the ABC network aired the finale of the fourth season's finale of the show “Desperate Housewives”, and Mr. Harold appeared, briefly, for the first time as a new character of the series. Gale has then been confirmed as a regular in the cast of one of the most popular TV shows in America. He also starred in two different indipendent movies that are currently in post production: “itW”, with Jennifer Elster, and “Passenger Side”.

January 2009 Update: On October 15, 2008, the media spread the news that Gale had been in a very serious motorcycle accident. Nothing has been said about the way the accident happened, the only thing we’ve been told is that Mr. Harold had been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit right after it. Later we learned that, as a consequence of the accident, Gale suffered from a broken shoulder, a ruptured eardrum and an head injury. The news regarding Gale’s accident and recovery have been, and still are, very vague and often confusing. On December 15, 2008, exactly two months after Gale’s accident, columnist Billy Masters wrote about a meeting he said he had with Gale in a theatre where the actor was attending the play “The Little Dog Laughed”: Sitting way in the penultimate row, hiding his scruffiness under a cap, was Gale Harold. Yes, the recently hospitalized actor is up and about. We can reveal exclusively that he’ll be returning to Desperate Housewives after the holiday break". Rumors had it that Gale also went on “Desperate Housewives”’s set to do a voiceover that was supposed to be heard in episode 11 (season 5) of the show. The episode aired Jan 4, 2009, and confirmed the rumors as true: Gale’s name appeared in the initial credits and we heard his voice… only his voice for now but we can definitely hope he’ll soon be finally back.

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A special Thanks to Barbara for Gale's Wonderful drawing.
You can visit her website HERE.