"I was born April 20, 1953 in Whittier, California... early in the morning... putting me right on the cusp of Aries/Tarus. I ended up with 4 older brothers, one older and two younger sisters.  My middle name "Quentin" derives from from the Latin word for five, as I was my parents 5th son.  I was also their sixth child, and might well have ended up with a middle name of "Sextus". The headaches that could have caused while I was growing up make me shudder.  I attended the Saint Mary's Catholic School in Whittier's "Uptown" area for 1st through 7th grades, having an interesting but thorough education from rather strict nuns.       In June of '66 my family moved to Placentia, Orange County, where I attended El Dorado High School. Atthat time the school was under construction and offered only 7th through 10th grades... making it a surreal combination of both middle school and high school.  Planned to allow for construction and the growth of Placentia, at the end of each of the following two years the school dropped a lower grade level and added an upper an upper grade level .  So I had the strange honor to be one of the few dozen people to have graduated from El Dorado twice... once from the 8th grade in June of  '67, and again as a high school senior 4 years later in June of 1971.   In September 1871, I entered California State University, in the city of Fullerton.     In the late 90s, I made and lost a "sure-thing" bet and as a result had to model naked for a local art class at Fullerton Community College.  I seemed that I had a natural talent (pun intended), and art instructors were so pleased that they passed my name  to their peers. Within some few a few months I was being asked to pose in my birthday suit all over the Southland. Me...  being paid to stand around naked.  What a world!     In January of 2000 artist Karl Gnass, who was at the time acting as consultant for a special film project at Sony Imageworks Studios, of Culver City, California, gave me a call. He had gotten my number from the model office at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design after he had made inquiries of them in a search for a very specific type of model: one with some certain physical traits, as well as an outgoing character and a good imagination.  We spoke... he saw my web site and hired me immediately. I was invited to work with the Sony CGI animators so they could use my body and my poses to create the character of the Mountain Troll for the then in-production  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.  The troll holding Harry by the foot was based on a pose where I was holding a stuffed toy monkey and swinging at it with a yardstick. The troll shaking Harry off of his shoulders was me giving a "pig-back" ride to that toy stuffed monkey.     Seeing the looming figure on the big screen gave me the revelation that I could use what God gave me to share of myself to entertain or amuse others.  Art modeling had gave me the confidence to be just myself, even without a stitch on... making my move to film and television as easy as fallen off a log.  I have since become the "go-to" guy for any project needing a totally unabashed male, and have proudly shared my skin for many films and popular television programs."