Doug Savant

• Birthplace: Burbank, California
• Birthday: June 21, 1964

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…more