Gavin McGregor Rossdale was born on 30 October 1965 in Marylebone, London, England, and is an English musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Bush.
He helped form Bush in 1992. On the band’s separation in 2002, he became the lead singer and guitarist for Institute and later began a solo career.
He resumed his role in Bush when the band reunited in 2010. In 2013, he received the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement.
Rossdale was born to Barbara Stephan and Douglas Rossdale, a doctor. His mother was born in Scotland, whereas his father was of Russian Jewish descent, with the family’s surname originally being “Rosenthal.”
Rossdale was educated at the independent Westminster School.
Rossdale appeared in the film Constantine (2005) playing the half-demon Balthazar. He has also appeared in the films Zoolander (2001), Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004), Little Black Book (2004), the Game of Their Lives (2005), How to Rob a Bank (2008), and The Bling Ring (2013).
Additionally, he appeared in the crime drama television series Criminal Minds in the episode “The Performer” (2009), portraying a rock star named Paul Davies who takes a vampire-like alter-ego named Dante whose music is involved in a string of exsanguination murders.
Rossdale also appeared in the eighth episode of season 5 of Burn Notice and appeared as villain Johnny Moreau in the 100th episode of Hawaii Five-0 in November 2014.
Is Gavin Rossdale still performing?
But Gavin Rossdale is on tour right now. Rossdale, of the British band Bush, is one of a handful of big-time frontmen from the 1990s, the last decade to produce a ton of them, still alive and still singing for the same band that made them famous.
Why did Gavin Rossdale stop acting?
He would say, “The only reason I don’t act more is because my three boys live with me half the time. I don’t mind traveling for music when I’m away for a few months across the year, but if you’re an actor, you’ve got to commit to making movies in Romania for four months or something like that, and I can’t do that.”