Gerardo Celasco (born April 8, 1982), also known as Adrian Bellani, is an American actor. He was the second actor to play the role of

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on the

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daytime drama, ''

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''.

Biography

As a child, Celasco moved to his parents' home country El Salvador with his family. He received his schooling at the American School of El Salvador (Escuela Americana). There, he not only competed in international horse jumping competitions, but he won and was invited to compete in the AASCA

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Games representing his country. Celasco also became a very accomplished volleyball player and once again he found himself invited to partake in the Central America Games. The team that he played for won the Central American tournament. Celasco was privileged to train with the El Salvador National team. Celasco later returned to the United States to study finance at

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. He went on to receive a finance degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Shortly after, Salvadoran fashion photographer Roberto Aguilar asked Celasco to be the face of the Toni & Guy Bed Head campaign. He also appeared in Frankie J's music video for his song "And I Had You There". ''People en Español'' magazine voted him as one of the 25 hottest Latin bachelors in the world in 2006. Celasco played

on the

daytime drama ''

'' from 2006 to 2007. In 2007, he appeared with ''Passions'' co-star Heidi Mueller on ''

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'' to help host Tyra through "soap opera school". In 2019, Celasco appeared as Xavier Castillo in the

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''.

Personal life

Celasco currently resides in Los Angeles but remains extremely close with his family and visits them often in San Salvador.

Selected filmography

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(2007) (Gilberto) ( Four Months Ago...) *( Rizzoli & Isles) (2011) (Manny Vega, as Adrian Bellani) (Don't Hate the Player) *(

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(2011) (Carlos Pena, as Adrian Bellani) *(

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(2012) (Ensign Chavez, as Adrian Bellani) *( Cleaners (TV series) (2014) (Joshua, as Adrian Bellani) (The Caterpillar and the Butterfly, Welcome Home Sally) *(

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(2014) (Tomas Koroa, as Adrian Bellani) ( Honor Among Thieves (Person of Interest) *(

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(2014-15) (Carlos, as Adrian Bellani) *(''

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'' (Suarez, as Adrian Bellani) (L.A. Takedown) *(''

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'' (2017) (Mark Kovac, as Gerard Celasco) (The Scare in the Score, The End in the End) *(

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(2018) (Fernan) (Sweat Equity, Guerilla) *(''

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'' (2019) (David Arias) (Los Huesos) *(''

'') (2019-2020) (Xavier Castillo) *(''

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'' (2020) (Ty Salazar, credit only in some episodes) * ''Good Sam'' (2022) (Dr. Nick Vega) *''

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'' (2022) (Detective Lopez)

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* 1982 births Living people Male actors from Miami American people of Salvadoran descent American male soap opera actors Hispanic and Latino American male actors Southern Methodist University alumni {{US-actor-stub