Matthew Grey Gubler is greatest referred to as the star of the long-running crime drama Legal Minds, which ended its preliminary 15-season run in 2020.
Since then, Gubler has stayed comparatively out of the highlight, even passing up the possibility to reprise his function of Dr Spencer Reid within the Legal Minds reboot to as a substitute think about different initiatives, together with his burgeoning profession as a youngsters’s guide writer.
Gubler, now 44, has by no means married and retains his personal life personal – and by no means commented on his rumoured relationship with pop famous person Taylor Swift greater than a decade in the past.
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Formative years
Gubler was born on March 9, 1980, in Las Vegas. His mom Marilyn was a rancher and political advisor whereas his father John was an legal professional.
He all the time needed to be an entertainer and informed Glamour in 2015 that one in all his first reminiscences was making an attempt to impress a crowd.
“It is all I’ve ever needed to do,” he mentioned.
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“I’ve a loopy reminiscence, and I keep in mind being two years previous at somebody’s social gathering and pondering, ‘This social gathering is boring! I higher spruce it up!’
“I obtained up and tried to do that actually dumb dance that I noticed Winnie the Pooh do, and I keep in mind falling over and pondering, ‘That is what it is all about.'”
He mentioned his “loving, encouraging dad and mom” all the time supported his goals.
Gubler attended Las Vegas Academy of the Arts highschool to check performing after lacking out on his first selection, filmmaking, earlier than shifting to New York to check directing.
Whereas residing in New York he was found by a scout for DNA Mannequin Administration and ended up modelling for high-profile purchasers, together with Tommy Hilfiger, Marc Jacobs and American Eagle, rising to forty sixth in a rating of male fashions on the time.
In direction of the top of his research, Gubler scored an internship with filmmaker Wes Anderson, who inspired him to audition for an element in his 2004 film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
He landed the small a part of Nico, an intern, kickstarting his performing profession.
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The large break
The very subsequent 12 months he was forged in new present Legal Minds as physician Spencer Reid, a member of the FBI’s serial killer-tracking Behavioural Evaluation Unit.
Gubler turned a fan favorite for his portrayal of Reid, the youngest member of the group and a genius who holds a swag of PhDs.
He informed Glamour that filming Legal Minds had been “actually enjoyable” from the very first day.
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“After I’m doing this job, I really feel like a unique individual, which might be why it has passed by so quick,” he mentioned of the present.
“I’ve all the time beloved performing. I’m bizarre that I really like auditioning. I am as glad entertaining one individual as I’m entertaining 1,000,000 individuals.
“It is so weird it has been on for therefore lengthy, as a result of on no account form or type does it really feel like that. It nonetheless looks like day two.”
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Different roles
When his schedule allowed, he took on different roles, together with voicing the character of Simon within the 2007 movie Alvin and the Chipmunks. He reprised the function in 2009’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel and 2015’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Highway Chip.
He additionally starred within the Robin Willams movie RV and scored lead roles in The best way to Be a Serial Killer and (500) Days of Summer time.
When he wasn’t performing, he tried his hand at documentary-making and directing, together with 12 episodes of Legal Minds.
He additionally co-produced, directed and edited the music video for The Killers track Do not Shoot me Santa.
“I really like directing. To me, I actually really feel most like myself, or that I am doing what I am imagined to be doing if I am directing or performing in comedies or telling ghost tales,” he informed Glamour.
“I am actually pleased with every thing I’ve carried out as a director.
“I really like entertaining individuals, and that is all I’ve ever needed to do. The truth that I’ve gotten to do that for a very long time is so superior.”
Gubler remained within the function for the present’s complete 15-season run.
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Life after Legal Minds
After Legal Minds resulted in 2020, Gubler busied himself with different initiatives, together with writing and illustrating his second youngsters’s guide.
“I actually really feel it is necessary to encourage youngsters,” he informed Glamour.
“I am so pleased with all the youngsters’ leisure I’ve carried out, whether or not it is The Chipmunks, Scooby Doo, or Batman.
“It is an enormous duty, so something to hopefully foster creativity and creativeness in youngsters, there is no extra noble factor you are able to do as a performer.”
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His first guide, Rumple Buttercup: A Story of Bananas, Belonging, and Being Your self, was launched in 2019.
A second guide, The Little Child with the Massive Inexperienced Hand, adopted in 2023.
“I am a storyteller. That is what I’m,” he informed Glamour years earlier than the primary guide was launched.
“Whether or not it is footage I draw or issues I direct, I am simply making an attempt to inform a narrative and make individuals’s lives hopefully extra enchanting.”
When Legal Minds was rebooted as Legal Minds Evolution in 2022, followers hoped Gubler would reprise his function.
Nevertheless, scheduling conflicts stopped him from taking over a job within the present.
Late final 12 months it was introduced Gubler had gained the lead function in a brand new collection, which has been given the working title, Einstein. He’ll play a relative of Albert Einstein, who makes use of maths to solves crimes.
He final appeared in seven episodes of the streamed collection Dollface, reverse Kat Dennings of 2 Broke Women fame.
Courting life
Gulber all the time strived to maintain his relationships out of the highlight, however did admit to Glamour he dated Kat Dennings “for a very long time.”
“It was firstly of my present,” he informed Glamour.
The couple reportedly broke up on account of distance and his work schedule, however remained on good phrases.
“Being on a present like this isn’t conducive to having an actual life as a result of for these first 5 years of Legal Minds, we have been simply doing 15-hour days,” he mentioned.
“I am nonetheless actually good pals along with her. I really like Kat. She’s the most effective.
“I fall in love with fantastic individuals and folks that may’t be replicated. They’re fully distinctive people, and people individuals are actually uncommon and you may’t allow them to go.
“You gotta be pals with them endlessly as a result of if I will date somebody, it is an actual huge factor for me.
“It signifies that I really feel that we’re tied collectively for all times, whether or not they prefer it or not.”
About these Taylor Swift rumours
Gubler was rumoured to have dated Taylor Swift in 2013.
Rumours started after followers deduced he had attended one in all Swift’s well-known Fourth of July events.
Followers seen a photograph Gubler posted to social media on the day featured him with a US flag painted on his face that was much like one Swift sported the identical day.
A kitchen noticed within the background of photographs posted by each stars additionally appeared related.
Neither Gubler or Swift ever commented on the rumours.
Web value
Gubler was reportedly paid $US150,000 (approx $237,000) an episode within the ultimate season of Legal Minds, bringing in $2.4 million that season alone and upping his reported internet value to about $16 million.
In 2016 he gave followers a glimpse inside his residence in a video for Self-importance Honest.
He mentioned his “haunted tree home” included “lots of bizarre stuff” and even housed a kimono assortment.
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