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American actor Robert Gant was born Robert Gonzalez on July 13, 1968, in Tampa, Fla. He graduated from both the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Law and worked as an attorney before acting. Robert began his career making guest appearances on the TV shows "Friends," "Veronica's Closet," "Becker," "Melrose Place" and "Providence." Then in 2002, he landed the role of Professor Ben Bruckner on Showtime's "Queer as Folk." He also supports organizations such as SAGE (Senior Advocacy for GLBT elders) and GLEH (Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing.)
Like two of his business partners in the Southern California-based, LGBT-centered film production company Mythgarden -- Chad Allen and Craig Dougherty -- actor/producer Robert Gant made headlines for his efforts to expand the scope of homosexual roles in Hollywood projects beyond conventional, overwrought, two-dimensional stereotypes. A graduate of Georgetown University law school, Gant originally intended to practice law in Southern California, but instead headed into acting and scored a major success with his portrayal of HIV-infected college professor Ben Bruckner on the groundbreaking Showtime television series Queer as Folk. Subsequent projects included the Steven Monroe-directed suspense thriller The Contract (2001) and one of the leads in the Mythgarden-produced drama Save Me. Co-starring Allen, the film told of a young man drawn into a homosexual "recovery center" by some bigoted evangelical Christians; Gant plays the young veteran of the couple's treatment who finds himself increasingly drawn into a gay relationship with Allen's character. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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