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Actor

1989-01-21 · Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. · Male

9 series in the catalog

Nicholas Gehlfuss (born January 21, 1985) is an American actor, known for his role in 2014 as Robbie Pratt in the fourth season of the Showtime family comedy-drama Shameless. From 2015–2023 he had a starring role as Dr. Will Halstead in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med. Since 2026, he had a starring role as FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman in the CBS crime drama CIA.

Career

In 2014, Gehlfuss had a recurring role as Robbie Pratt in the fourth season of the Showtime family comedy-drama Shameless. In 2015, he guest-starred as Dr. Thomas Galen in the short-lived NBC horror drama Constantine in the penultimate episode "Angels and Ministers of Grace".

Later that year, Gehlfuss was cast in the NBC medical drama Chicago Med as Dr. Will Halstead. Halstead was first introduced in the police procedural drama Chicago P.D. as the older brother of Jesse Lee Soffer's character Detective Jay Halstead and afterwards, the drama Chicago Fire's backdoor pilot for Chicago Med.

Personal life

Gehlfuss was born in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in Little Italy and Chesterland, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Marietta College and completed his Master of Fine Arts at University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has two younger siblings: Vincent and Jillian.

On May 13, 2016, Gehlfuss married hotel marketer Lilian Matsuda.