American actor Matthew Gray Gubler was born on 9 March 1980, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is also a director and model, as well as a talented painter. Gubler is perhaps best known for his appearances in such movies and television shows as “Criminal Minds”, “Life After Beth”, “(500) Days of Summer”, and “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” among others, during a career which began in 2004.
If you consider how rich Matthew Gray Gubler is, authoritative sources estimate that Matthew’s net worth is over $1.5 million, the main sources of which are Matthew’s career as an actor and his activities as a model. In addition to these, Gubler’s works as a painter also add to his net worth.
Matthew Gray Gubler Net Worth $1.5 Million
Matthew studied at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, and later continued at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, in both of which Matthew learned acting and film-making. When Matthew was still studying at the latter, he was noticed by a model scout, and received an invitation to work with DNA Model Management. He subsequently had an opportunity to work for such designers as Marc Jacobs, American Eagle and Tommy Hilfiger, and this was the time when Matthew’s net worth began growing.
In 2004 Matthew started his acting career, when he appeared in the movie “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”, during the making of which Matthew had an opportunity to work with such actors as Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Cate Blanchett and others; concurrently he also directed a documentary which detailed the making of the movie. After this, Matthew came more to notice, and was soon cast in one of his most famous roles, that of Dr. Spencer Reid in the television show “Criminal Minds”, which had a huge impact on the growth of Gubler’s net worth.
In 2007 Matthew voiced one of the Chipmunks in the movie “Alvin and the Chipmunks”, and later also worked on its sequels: “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked”, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” and “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”. Step by step Gubler gained more acclaim from others in the television and movie industries, which is why his success continued to grow.
In addition to his acting career, Matthew has also worked as a director on several projects. Although he is quite new in this sphere, he is apparently progressing well. As mentioned, Gubler is a talented painter as well and his works have been featured in several art gallery shows and magazines, as varied as the Gallery of Fine Art in Ostrava, Czech Republic, The Little Bird art gallery in Atwater Village, California, and in Juxtapoz magazine,so there is little doubt that Matthew is a multi-talented personality, who has achieved in various spheres of art.
Matthew prefers to keep his personal life private, but he recently became an ordained minister. He is known to have been in successive relationships with Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Kat Dennings, Marisa Morris, Victoria Asher and Eve Wind, but has managed to remain officially single. He currently divides his time between New York City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Daytime Emmy Awards (2013), Festival Trophy - Best actor (2014), BTVA Special/DVD Voice Acting Award (2011),
Movies
“Zoe” (2018), “Newness” (2017), “500 Days of Summer” (2009), “The Great Buck Howard” (2008), “Magic Valley” (2011), “Excision” (2012), “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” (2015)
TV Shows
“All-Star Superman” (2011, video), “The Beauty Inside: Alex's Video Diaries” (2012), “Criminal Minds” (2005-2017), “Alvin and the Chipmunks”, “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked”, , “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip”
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[on Shemar Moore] My six pack is better then Shemar's. Tell Shemar I said my six pack is a little better than his. It's a seven pack.
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[on his character Dr. Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds (2005)] He's kinda like Doogie Howser, if he had a gun.
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I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.
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Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.
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My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
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My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you're doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.
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A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.
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I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.
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I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.
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I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.
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I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.
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What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.
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I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.
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I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.
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It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.
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I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.
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I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.
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I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.
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I get really sad when people say, 'I'm no good. I haven't been cast in a pilot.' It doesn't mean you're not good; it just means someone hasn't seen you yet. It doesn't mean that in real life you're not the greatest actor.
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I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.
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I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.
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I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.
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I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
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He is of Teutonic Germanic and Celtic ancestry.
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Matthew is an English form of Hebrew name "Matityahu", meaning "Gift of Yahweh".
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He never wears matching socks, as he says they are bad luck, which he learned from his grandmother. The one time he wore matching socks, he was filming a scene in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). He ended up spraining his ankle on screen, which was kept in the movie.
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On October 27, 2014, he became a certified Minister. He officiated the marriage of former Criminal Minds (2005) star Paget Brewster and best friend Steve Damstra II on November 28, 2014.
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He is of Swiss-German, German, English, Irish, Manx, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.
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He has a brother called Gray Gubler born 1994 (who appeared in the music video Reagan by Whirlwind Heat which Matthew directed) and a sister called Laura Dahl (who is a fashion designer based in New York City).
Hosts his own awards ceremony at Criminal Minds (2005) called the "Goobie Awards", where he presents awards to the crew for such categories as Best Facial Hair and Craziest Accent.
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Famously damaged his knee in 2009 during a dance off with his (500) Days of Summer (2009) co-stars Geoffrey Arend and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a Mexican dive bar. He couldn't walk for over four months. After a third surgery, Gubler started using a cane but was unable to walk normally for the next five months. As of December 2009, Gubler was once again able to walk unassisted.
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Has stated on the season 1 dvd features of Criminal Minds (2005) that his kiss with guest star Amber Heard was his first on-screen kiss.
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Loves to have things monogrammed.
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Grandson of Laura and Maxwell Kelch--the founders of Las Vegas' first radio station, KENO.
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He has also worked as a model for fashion designers as Marc Jacobs, Burberry, Tommy Hilfiger, Sisley, and Louis Vuitton.
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He is a 2002 graduate of the NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in film directing.