Tarek Gader

Tarek Gader is an actor from Montreal, Canada. His mother Silvana Barone of Italian decent is a language professor and his father Sam Ghader a Lebanese immigrant who moved to Montreal at 22 years old. Sam was a successful hair stylist. Sam used to cut William Shatner's mother's hair in Montreal in the early 80s. Among other local celebrities. Tarek grew up watching movies as his father was a huge movie buff but loved hockey the most, especially The Montreal Canadians. Tarek's dream was to play hockey. His parents thought it was too dangerous so to get hockey off his mind his Mother brought him to Elite Casting House in Montreal to apply for extra work. At 14 years old Tarek was a back ground actor in "The Quest" with Jean-Claude Van Damme and immediately fell in love with movie sets. Movies became his life. He did extra work on Canadian and American films and T.V. shows shot in Montreal until he finished High School. He attended Vanier College's theatre program after high school and dropped out half way through. He worked in restaurants as a server until he applied to Concordia University as a independent student. He finally was admitted to an undergraduate program and graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor's Degree in "Arts and Sciences" majoring in Political Science and Minoring in Religion. Since graduation, Tarek has accumulated various Film and T.V. credits, most notably his supporting role in "Looking For Anne" a Japanese/Canadian co-production that won various best film awards in many Asian film festivals. After a brief stint in L.A., Tarek moved to New York City to study with the famous 'Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute'. Too Tall's release is Tarek's first major lead role in an independent feature film. He also wrote, produced, directed and starred in his own web series called Preshift. Which you can watch on You Tube at Preshift The Web Series Tarek is represented by Jessica Martins from Hero Artists located in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and now in New York City.