Chris Payne Gilbert

Chris Payne Gilbert is an American actor and director.

In 2010, he played Robert Brunner, a paroled rapist, on Showtime’s series DEXTER.

Appearances
Season Five:
 * “First Blood”

Career
Film

His film credits include roles in The Pavilion (2016); Beauty in the Broken (2015); Refuge (2010); Life Blood (2009 Video); An Irish Vampire in Hollywood (2007 Video); The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000); Story of a Bad Boy (1999); and Saving Manhattan (1998).

TV Movies

His TV movies include Hollywood Vice (2005).

Shorts

His shorts include Bedtime Story (2017 Short).

Television

His TV credits include appearances on Chicago Fire; Chance; Chicago Justice; Lucifer; Suits; Backstrom; Drop Dead Diva; Mistresses; Heavy Petting with Mike Weaver; Fairly Legal; Criminal Minds; The Protector; 10 Items or Less; Shark; Moonlight; Burn Notice; CSI: NY; Justice; Gilmore Girls; Bones; NCIS; The Shield; Friends; CSI: Miami; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Sex and the City; Law & Order; Charmed; 18 Wheels of Justice; Beverly Hills, 90210; Celebrity Deathmatch; and Guiding Light.

Theatre

He has appeared in many Off-Broadway and Regional theatre productions which include Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Minetta Lane); Kilt (Directors Co); Through Fred (Playwrights Horizons); Walking off the Roof (Signature Theatre Co); and Freesailing; Lem; Experimental Actions (all Williamstown Theatre Festival). His Los Angeles credits include All My Sons at the Geffen Playhouse; It's Just Sex at the Two Roads Theatre; Larry Moss' production of Beggars in the House of Plenty; and Reid Scott's production of The Elephant Man.

Chris is a founding member of the Obie Award winning experimental theatre company 'Mad Dog' whose work includes productions in New York,  the Williamstown Theatre Festival & MASS MOCA, and at the Belgrad International Theatre Festival in Serbia.

Personal Life
Gilbert was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and spent the majority of his childhood growing up in the Berkshires in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Siena College in Loudonville, New York, where he played Division I soccer, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a concentration in Theatre. He attended Ohio University's Professional Actor Training Program in Athens, Ohio, and subsequently spent the beginning of his career working in New York. He was living in Vermont when he married his girlfriend of three years, Lesley Ann Brandt, in 2015. In 2017, they gave birth to a son.