Doug SavantAKA:
Douglas P Savant
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
06/21/1964 Birthplace:
Burbank, California
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biography
Throughout the history of show business, many a heterosexual actor has hesitated to play homosexual characters on television or in films for fear of being typecast. In many ways ahead of his time – certainly in the pre-“Will and Grace” era – amicable pizza delivery boy-turned-actor Doug Savant made a substantial sociological contribution in the early 1990s by portraying gay social worker Matt Fielding for a five year run on the Aaron Spelling sudser “Melrose Place” (Fox, 1992-99). Worried he would be typecast at that tender time, he need not have worried, as he enjoyed a career resurgence in
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1985
Feature film debut in bit part in "Secret Admirer"
1985
First supporting role in a film "Teen Wolf"
1986
TV debut in guest appearance on "Hotel"
1990
TV-movie debut, a busted pilot, "The Knife and Gun Club"
1992
Cast as Matt Fielding on Aaron Spelling's ensemble series "Melrose Place" (Fox)
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