Career
Most recently he has been recurring on Columbia Broadcasting System"s Numb3rs and National Broadcasting Company"s Days of Our Lives. Gabriel began his acting career by writing and starring in a play in the fifth grade. In 1990 he got his first professional gig in a small role in Joseph Vásquez"s film The Bronx War.
His family eventually relocated to Miami and he soon followed.
He continued to work in local theatre there appearing in several plays. In 1995 he answered an ad for an improv comedy troupe to be one of their apprentices.
The troup was Laughing Gas (improv). Gene soon became one of their star apprentices and almost immediately became a company member.
In 1998 he and 9 other members co-founded what has now become South Florida"s number one comedy improv troupe and training center Just The Funny.
He starred in director Luis Saumell"s award winning Spanish language short Porque". He returned to New York in the summer of 1999. The play opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London to rave reviews and then moved on to the Joseph Papp Public Theater in New New York
He is thanked in the published version of the play along with fellow cast members James Yaegashi and Robert M. Jimenez.
Gabriel has appeared on the Broadway stage originating the role of "Rodriguez" in Take Maine Out and opposite Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Brad Garrett in The Odd Couple. He starred in the cult sci-fi thriller The Ethereal Plane and has appeared on television shows such as The Sopranos as a policeman, Walker, Texas Ranger as a sadistic murderer, Guiding Light as a mobster and Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective Alvarez.
He has had recurring roles on the Columbia Broadcasting System show Numb3rs as a Bomb Squad technician, One Life to Live as Father Ignacio and Days of Our Lives as Sergeant Ceron.,
Currently he is the creator of the series Montecito Heights and is the writer of an action comedy film entitled Above the Title.