Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model.

He made his début in the film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) as Intern #1, and is best known for his role as the young genius Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds. Gubler created several movies that were mostly filmed in his hometown of Las Vegas as well as New York City, prior to his graduation from Tisch.

He is a high school graduate of the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts, where he majored in acting, because the school didn’t offer his first love, filmmaking.[1] He is a college graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he majored in film directing. He also attended UC Santa Cruz.
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