Charles J. Gilbert
- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Born in Tucson, Arizona, actor Charles Gilbert moved to
Colorado Springs, Colorado at age 16. Right after high school, he
booked his first local commercial and full length independent film
called Junkyard Dead, directed by Robert Greywolf. In 2002, Gilbert was
able to work on his first big budget movie in The Laramie Project with
director Moises Kaufman as a local college kid. Shortly after, he found
himself working with director Julie Terry of Two Tickets Productions.
He worked with and took acting classes with Terry for six years. Here
he was able to hone his acting skills and landed the lead role in the
thriller The Dairy and the lead supporting role in the dark comedy The
Mystery of Oblivious Manor. In The Dairy he played a recent college
graduate that found a job in a little town where things just weren't
right. Unfortunately he didn't realize it until it was to late. In The
Mystery of Oblivious Manor he played a flamboyantly gay handy man that
did everything except for being handy. In 2009 he worked on a web
series called The Wingman Project in a short called Listen Don't
Lecture. In Listen Don't Lecture, the actor played a concerned friend
trying to keep his friend from committing suicide. Gilbert's talents
were noticed in 2011 when a management company out of L.A. recognized
what he had to offer and signed him. Shortly after signing he landed
the biggest role of his career in the indy feature film called Friends
of the Bride. With the role of Jake, he played an unsuccessful ladies
man who is trying to convince one of his friends not to marry the bride
to be, all while partying to keep his sanity. While Gilbert is interested in all sides of the business. He
currently owns and operates Ugly Duckling Portraits and is working on putting
together and writing a sitcom that he plans to star in along with a
Reality TV show.