Gabriel Anthony Lopez qualified for the Olympics in the years 2000 and 2014 in swimming and graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in International Studies. After qualifying for the Olympics in 2000 and graduating from college, Anthony was off to teach in South Korea as an English as a Second Language teacher. He then took an around-the-world trip and started to act in Houston, Texas as a side job.