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Gabriel Macht Profile |
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Birth Date: January 22, 1972
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Birth Place: The Bronx, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Gabriel S. Macht
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Height: 6'1"
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Biography |
Gabriel Macht is an American actor. Macht is perhaps best
known for playing the leading character in The Spirit.
Macht was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of Suzanne
Victoria Pulier, a museum curator and archivist, and actor
Stephen Macht. He has three siblings, Jesse (who appeared on
The Next Great American Band), Julie, and Ari Serbin. The
family moved to California when Gabriel was five years old.
After graduating from high school, he attended Carnegie
Mellon College of Fine Arts.
Macht married actress Jacinda Barrett in 2004. The couple
had their first child, a girl, Satine Anais Geraldine Macht,
born August 20, 2007 in Los Angeles.
Macht was nominated for the Best Young Motion Picture Actor
Award after playing his first role at age eight in the film
Why Would I Lie? under the stage name Gabriel Swann. He has
appeared in many film and television roles including A Love
Song for Bobby Long, Because I Said So, The Recruit, and
Archangel. Macht plays the title role in Frank Miller's
adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit. |
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Other Information |
Son of Stephen Macht.
Was considered for the role of Chase on "24" (2001) which
eventually went to James Badge Dale.
He remains active in theater via his association with the
Mad Dog Theater Company in New York, which produced the play
To Whom It May Concern at the Belgrade International Theatre
Festival, September 1997.
He is a huge New York Yankees fan.
He has acted since he was 8.
Credits John Travolta as an "invaluable" teacher about how
to act and how to be on a film set.
He appeared off-Broadway as Elvis Presley (aka "The
Visitor") in comedian Steve Martin's 1995 production of
Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
Graduated Beverly Hills High School in 1990, where he was
active in the school's performing arts department.
Appeared in the cast of the 1989 production of "The Music
Man" at Beverly Hills High School. Other cast members
included Monica Lewinsky.
Trained at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.
He and his wife, Jacinda Barrett, became the parents of a
girl, Satine Anais Geraldine Macht, on August 27, 2007 in
Los Angeles. |
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since January 30, 2009