Gaius Charles

Gaius Charles is an American stage, television and film actor best known for playing Brian Smash Williams on the NBC sportsdrama television series Friday Night Lights. He starred as Dr. Shane Ross on the ABC medical drama series Greys Anatomy. Charles currently has a recurring role on the NBC historicaldrama series Aquarius as Black Panther leader Bunchy Carter.

Charles was born on May 2, 1983 in Manhattan, New York, then lived in Queens, and later moved to Teaneck, New Jersey with his family when he was in middle school. Growing up in the childhood home of composer Alan Silvestri, he graduated from Teaneck High School in 2001. He attended Carnegie Mellon Universitys College of Fine Arts, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drama and performed in productions including Candide, The Wild Party and Spunk, the colleges first production with an allblack cast. He appeared in Romeo and Juliet as Mercutio at the Princeton Rep Shakespeare Festival and also studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia.

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