Gale Harold

Gale Morgan Harold III (July 10, 1969) is an American actor best known for his roles on Queer as Folk, Desperate Housewives  and Vanished.

Harold plays the male lead in the indie romantic comedy Falling for Grace, which debuted favorably at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival (under working title East Broadway). Harold plays an eligible New York bachelor in an inter-racial relationship with an Asian-American woman. The film has been screened at theaters and campuses nationwide, and is currently being distributed to theaters in select cities.

Gale appeared in November 2007 in a guest role on ABC's Grey's Anatomy as Shane, a paramedic and white supremacist with a swastika tattooed on his abdomen, who is injured in an ambulance crash.

Harold joined the cast of Desperate Housewives on May 18, 2008 as Jackson Braddock, Susan Mayer's latest love interest

On October 14, 2008, Harold was injured in a serious motorcycle accident and immediately hospitalized in USC Medical Center's intensive care unit. He remained in critical condition after swelling of the brain was discovered as well as a fractured shoulder. Harold was released from intensive care on October 23, 2008