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Actor Gabriel Macht made his film debut in 1980 as Jorge in the movie "Why Would I Lie?" Gabriel was born on Jan. 22, 1972, in Bronx, NY, and is the son of actor Stephen Macht. Acting since he was eight, Gabriel graduated from Beverly Hills High in 1990 and the prestigious Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh. He also had the movie roles of Zach in "The Recruit" and of Stackhouse in "Behind Enemy Lines," featuring Gene Hackman. His television credits include "Beverly Hills 90210," "Spin City," "The Others" and "Sex And The City." Gabriel has starred in the high school musical "The Music Man" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and is married to model-turned-actress Jacinda Barrett.
Though a preternaturally gifted actor by any standard, Gabriel Macht endured years of underutilization by Hollywood. He officially debuted as a child actor at the age of 8, with a small role in director Larry Peerce's critically-maligned, family-friendly romance Why Would I Lie? (1980), but remained offscreen until his late 20s, when he reemerged as a film star with supporting roles in the romantic comedies The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998) and 101 Ways (The Things a Girl Will Do to Keep Her Volvo) (2000), and a regular turn as Mark Gabriel on television's psychological thriller series The Others (2000). Macht then bided his time for several years in action yarns unworthy of his abilities, including Joel Schumacher's Bad Company (2002) and Roger Donaldson's The Recruit (2003). The course of Macht's career, however, changed with 2004's John Travolta alcoholism drama A Love Song for Bobby Long, however - which afforded the thespian third billing after Travolta and Scarlett Johansson. In it, Macht delivered a searing portrayal of Lawson Pines, an alcoholic writer in the American south. He followed it up with a key supporting role in Robert De Niro's critically acclaimed historical saga The Good Shepherd (2006), and tackled the lead in director Frank Miller's The Spirit (2008), a supernaturally-charged action saga about a masked crime fighter. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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