General Hospital Brings Gavin Houston Back As Portia's Brother Zeke

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Born in 1977, Gavin Alexander Houston caught the acting bug early. "I'm from New Jersey, so we used to go to see plays in New York," he told WJBF. He recalled seeing Yul Brynner in "The King and I" on Broadway and Kevin Kline in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" in Central Park. Seeing these commanding performances by great actors, along with the reaction of the audience, Houston knew then he wanted the same for himself. "I want to make people feel like that. I want to make them laugh, I want to make them cry, I want to make them feel something and go on this journey that I can take them on and escape their lives and come into this different world," he said.

He began acting around age 10, yet also competed in gymnastics, ranking second in the state of New Jersey. Following graduation from the University of Florida, where he studied theater, he moved to New York and continued to develop his skills at the Manhattan Theater Club and an improv troupe. Today Houston's work runs the gamut of print ad modeling, acting in TV commercials, and performing substantial roles in TV series, Broadway productions, and independent films. His credits include "Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart," "Dance for Me," and "Safe Word," which he described as "a Black version of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'" 

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