Gabriel Cade was born and raised in the tiny alternative community
of Celo, North Carolina. His father is a doctor and his mother is a nurse.
In addition, they run a small farm with goats, chickens, rabbits and fields
of blueberry bushes. Cade has one brother, Jason, and a twin sister, Emily
During his first two years of high school in Mitchell County, Cade
was a competitive figure skater, a member of a singing quartet and was part
of a symphony orchestra (having played classical cello since he was seven
years old). He also studied jazz and ballet dancing. He then transferred to
the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics for his junior and senior
year. As the school required community service, he spent two summers working
for World Changers, an organization that assists in building homes for impoverished
individuals.
Graduating in 1996, he then traveled throughout Europe where he eventually
began volunteer teaching English in a small town in France while also leading
adventure trips for students.
Returning to the States, Cade enrolled at the University of North
Carolina where he intended to pursue a double major in biology and drama with
a double minor in English and French. During his freshman year, he completed
a rescue scuba diving course to become certified. After his freshman year,
he returned to Europe to continue leading the adventure trips. He then returned
to the States and enrolled in a Sarasota, Florida-based school named New College.
With no grades and no core requirements, if a course didn't exist, he was
able to create it and call it an independent reading project. For a brief
time, his major was French Science Fiction. While there, he was able to fulfill
a lifelong dream of playing soccer with a semi-professional team while also
coaching at a local middle school. In addition, he performed and taught ballroom
dancing.
In the summer of 1998, Cade spent four months hiking the Appalachian
Trail from Mount Katahdin, Maine, to Springer Mountain, Georgia (approximately
2,000 miles). He then returned to college, this time at the University of
North Carolina, Asheville, until he decided to move to Los Angeles, California.
He obtained a job writing for a national college newspaper where he ran the
entertainment section. This afforded him the opportunity to interview his
favorite celebrities, attend the Sundance Film Festival and participate in
lavish press junkets. When he decided to leave the paper, he then began teaching
an S.A.T. math prep course while bartending and serving as a chauffeur for
an elderly gentleman.
Gabriel Cade's favorite hobbies are reading, writing, soccer, camping
and learning new languages. He is fluent in French and moderately versed in
three additional languages. He currently lives in Hollywood, Calif. His birth
date is July 1.