Matthew Grey Gubler is finest generally known as the star of the long-running crime drama Prison Minds, which ended its preliminary 15-season run in 2020.
Since then, Gubler has stayed comparatively out of the highlight, even passing up the prospect to reprise his function of Dr Spencer Reid within the Prison Minds reboot to as a substitute focus on different tasks, 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 celebrity 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 marketing consultant whereas his father John was an legal professional.
He at all times wished to be an entertainer and informed Glamour in 2015 that one in every of his first reminiscences was making an attempt to impress a crowd.
“It is all I’ve ever wished to do,” he stated.
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“I’ve a loopy reminiscence, and I bear in mind being two years outdated at somebody’s social gathering and pondering, ‘This social gathering is boring!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 bear in mind falling over and pondering, ‘That is what it is all about.'”
He stated his “loving, encouraging mother and father” at all times supported his desires.
Gubler attended Las Vegas Academy of the Arts highschool to check appearing after lacking out on his first alternative, filmmaking, earlier than transferring 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 the direction of the tip of his research, Gubler scored an internship with filmmaker Wes Anderson, who inspired him to audition for a component in his 2004 film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
He landed the small a part of Nico, an intern, kickstarting his appearing profession.
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The massive break
The very subsequent 12 months he was solid in new present Prison 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 workforce and a genius who holds a swag of PhDs.
He informed Glamour that filming Prison Minds had been “actually enjoyable” from the very first day.
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“Once I’m doing this job, I really feel like a distinct particular person, which might be why it has passed by so quick,” he stated of the present.
“I’ve at all times cherished performing. I’m bizarre that I really like auditioning. I am as glad entertaining one particular person 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 kind does it really feel like that. It nonetheless seems 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 Street 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 season.
When he wasn’t appearing, he tried his hand at documentary-making and directing, together with 12 episodes of Prison 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 presupposed to be doing if I am directing or appearing in comedies or telling ghost tales,” he informed Glamour.
“I am actually happy with all the things I’ve performed as a director.
“I really like entertaining individuals, and that is all I’ve ever wished 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 whole 15-season run.
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Life after Prison Minds
After Prison Minds resulted in 2020, Gubler busied himself with different tasks, together with writing and illustrating his second youngsters’s guide.
“I actually really feel it is vital to encourage youngsters,” he informed Glamour.
“I am so happy with all the youngsters’ leisure I’ve performed, whether or not it is The Chipmunks, Scooby Doo, or Batman.
“It is an enormous accountability, so something to hopefully foster creativity and creativeness in youngsters, there is not any 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 Huge 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 Prison Minds was rebooted as Prison Minds Evolution in 2022, followers hoped Gubler would reprise his function.
Nonetheless, scheduling conflicts stopped him from taking on a task 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 Ladies fame.
Courting life
Gulber at all times 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 at first of my present,” he informed Glamour.
The couple reportedly broke up as a result 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 Prison Minds, we have been simply doing 15-hour days,” he stated.
“I am nonetheless actually good buddies together with her. I really like Kat. She’s the perfect.
“I fall in love with fantastic individuals and folks that may’t be replicated. They’re fully distinctive people, and people persons are actually uncommon and you’ll’t allow them to go.
“You gotta be buddies with them without end as a result of if I’ll date somebody, it is an actual huge factor for me.
“It implies 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 every of Swift’s well-known Fourth of July events.
Followers observed 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 pictures posted by each stars additionally seemed comparable.
Neither Gubler or Swift ever commented on the rumours.
Internet price
Gubler was reportedly paid $US150,000 (approx $237,000) an episode within the ultimate season of Prison Minds, bringing in $2.4 million that season alone and upping his reported internet price to about $16 million.
In 2016 he gave followers a glimpse inside his residence in a video for Self-importance Honest.
He stated his “haunted tree home” included “a number of bizarre stuff” and even housed a kimono assortment.
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