Gill Garci

Gill was born in Sonoma, California, the youngest of three siblings. He was raised in Napa, where he attended Lincoln elementary; and Ridgview Jr high school. At the age of six he started boxing at The Napa boxing Club under "NewsBoy" Joe Gavras who fought professionally in the 30s and 40s in the San Francisco Bay area. After 75 fights and finishing Junior high school, Gill moved to Nevada with his father where he finished high school and continued boxing in Golden Gloves Tournaments. In 1981 he joined the U.S. Army and while stationed in Ft Dix, New Jersey, won the Army's super middleweight title.After the Army Gill worked as a firefighter for BLM in Nevada and as a casino dealer in Las Vegas and other miscellaneous jobs before moving to Los Angeles in 1999. He joined The Company Rep, formerly Actors Ally, at the El Portel theater in NOHO under artistic director Hope Alexander. Gill was also accepted to The American National Academy Of Performing Arts under Dorothy Barrett who worked with Francis Lederer the founder in 1956. He was cast as Uncle Tanner for The Istanbul National Opera & Ballet's "East Side Story" at The Ford Ampitheatre in Los Angeles. Show less «