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 d